Monsieur Mackwayte, his name is, we used to call him Monsieur Arthur in the old days when I was the child acrobat of the Dupont Troupe.
She was an acrobat in the Seven Duponts, a turn that earned big money in the old days.
My English speaking acrobat had terminated an engagement at the South London Music Hall, and was returning to resteep himself in the true faith at home, and also, it is possible, to rest.
It seemed he was an acrobat from the province of the Sus, from the celebrated Zowia {30b} of Si Hamed O'Musa, the patron saint of all the acrobats throughout Morocco.
It will be remembered that some few weeks ago a terrible accident happened to one Signor Telitetti, an acrobat of professedly world-wide reputation.
Drawn on by a strange and terrible fascination, Walter and his sister pressed forward to where the unhappy acrobat lay bleeding and insensible.
The acrobat was now coming to his performances on the rope.
In the same performance a female acrobat made a backward dive from the topmost point of the building into a net stretched about ten feet above the floor.
Under Louis XII an acrobat named Georges Menustre, during a passage of the King through Macon, executed several performances on a rope stretched from the grand tower of the Chateau and the clock of the Jacobins, at a height of 156 feet.
In 1882 an acrobat bearing the natural name of Arsens Blondin traversed one river after another in France on a wire stretched at high altitudes.
After a certain length of time he would have the acrobat disgorge the tubes, and in this way he observed to what degree the process of digestion had taken place.
Napoleon awarded her the title of the first acrobat of France.
At this point the housekeeper knocked at the door, and Scrymgeour sprang like an acrobat into a Japanese dressing-gown before he cried "Come in!
He was a bit of a child, this loud-voiced acrobatin disguise.
It was on this bridge, I regret to say, that Johann belied the reputation we had made for him, and proved to be not so perfect an acrobat in practice as he was in personal appearance.
The son of an acrobat must practice quite as faithfully as did his father in order to secure his father's skill.
That a prospective Brigadier-General should find his sole relief from solitude in the fugitive companionship of a Japanese acrobat seemed to me pathetic.
He mopped his forehead, wiped his hands and, with the old acrobat instinct, jerked the handkerchief across the room.
If the acrobat fell off his trapeze, what would he fall against?
Painfully the young acrobat started to pull himself up on the rope.
The young acrobat had climbed the rope a distance of ten feet.
The youthful acrobat did look as if he had been sick and was not yet entirely over it.
What had become of the men nobody knew, and the boy acrobat had likewise disappeared.
He's the lad from the circus---the young acrobat who ran away!
In the meantime the young acrobat arose unsteadily to his feet.
In thia Harry the stockman, who had been a circus rider and acrobat in his youthful days, outshone all the others.
The marvellous skill of the acrobat still occupied his mind.
But she told me also that the acrobat had told her that the garment had belonged to an ambassador who had given it to him as a reward of his skill, and that he never would have parted with it if he had not been dead-broke.
She told me she bought it from a Japanese acrobat who was out of an engagement and desperately hard up.
Barnes, the rope-dancer, had at this time lost his former partner, Appleby, and taken into partnership an acrobat named Finley.
Rayner was an acrobat at Sadler's Wells, where his daughter danced on the tight rope.
Thus moulded, the Chiesi mount upon each other, and pause in bold yet classic attitudes, which combine the poses of the acrobat and the academy.
The acrobat raised the lid, and I saw that the box was empty.
Whilst theacrobat was endeavouring to become a man of the world, the man of the world was becoming an excellent acrobat.
In this nervous state the muscles assume a species of rigidity which assists the acrobat in his work.
For one hour the French imbibed the sadness of their insular neighbours, the black acrobat was well received.
He was one day mounted upon his father's shoulders to watch an acrobat performing in the open air, who ascended a movable perch.
And at the moment they reach the floor a vigorous relaxation of the muscles of the legs makes the acrobat rebound upon his feet.
Well," said the acrobat when I had finished reading, "what do you think of it all?
Illustration] The acrobat told me all this without any affectation, in so natural and decided a tone that I did not feel justified in pitying his fate.
Before the acrobat attempts the somersault forward, he must go through the whole series of exercises in posturing.
The classical performance of a carpet acrobat opens by bending backward.
Clarence in goal was the nearest approach to an india-rubber acrobat and society contortionist to be seen off the music-hall stage.
Observe the music-hall acrobat as he prepares to swing from the roof by his eyelids.
He put one hand on the counter, vaulted over as easily as an acrobat and towered above the priest, putting one tremendous hand upon his collar.
If she hadn't enticed the acrobat to my place that time, we'd have him round our necks to-day too.
I am yours, my darling, if you quiet Mr. Acrobat till to-morrow.
Jim Tracy of Joe, as the young acrobat and Bill hurried across the tent.
As he moved to get out of the way of the beast the young acrobat stumbled over a coil of rope which had been used to let some of the heavy wagons down the gangplank off the flat cars.
The young acrobat finally seemed to be satisfied with his shoes, and nodded his readiness to his two partners.
Yes," answered the young acrobat "I can fill in all right.
They want the lion tamer to be bitten by a fierce beast, or to see an acrobat fall to the ground.
Another sister, Jennie, was a noted bareback rider with the Sells show; my brother Tom had developed into a famous acrobat and pantomimist, and was with the Hanlons.
She accepted them with a sort of condescension, and then turned quickly away, for the French acrobat happened along, and she beamed on him.
It was work or training all day and half the night and then to bed, for the acrobat must have his rest and lots of sleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acrobat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: acrobat; clown; flier; flyer; juggler; ringmaster; tumbler
