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.
Not far from the Wad {30c} Nun is situate the district called Taseruelt, and in that district the famous patron saint of acrobats is buried at the above named Zowia.
Early in the performance a series of flying leaps from a springboard, in which all the acrobats took part, was introduced.
Two acrobats who performed what is called the "brothers' act" were rehearsing.
The balloon ascents were a great feature by Lieutenant Gale, Adam, and Coxwell taking up acrobats who performed on the trapeze in mid air.
Fresco drawing of two female acrobats from the palace of Knossos, date about 1400 B.
They told me down at the hotel that a very hot bunch of acrobats were doing a few stunts down here this afternoon, and I thought I'd break in if I could.
Why, I'm dying to see the elephants and acrobats and all that!
Then the acrobats climbed up to two bars and did various "turns," all more or less hazardous.
In bygone times, the public were often entertained by the performances of acrobats on church steeples.
The most serious results of permitting acrobatsto perform on churches remain to be recorded.
We gain a bizarre notion of the effects and services which a Japanese can obtain from a common Parasol of his country by looking at the games of the acrobats who come to us occasionally from Tokio, Yedo, or Yokohama.
The acrobats come from Tarudant and another large city of the Sus that is not marked in the British War Office Map of Morocco dated 1889!
I know London well," he said; "I have an engagement to bring my troupe of acrobats to the Canterbury and the Oxford.
Here acrobats and snake-charmers and story-tellers ply their trade, and never fail to find an audience.
Acts that do not use words; acrobats and the like.
It is used for dancing acts, acrobats and other acts that require a deep stage and can appropriately play in a palace scene.
Would anybody now go a step to see the Quadrille were any graceless acrobats left to dance it?
But acrobats and danseuses had been alike brilliant, wicked impossibilities to my youth, for I had been reared a Covenanter of the Covenanters.
The great acrobats were as noted in their line of art as Ellsler and Jenny Lind in theirs.
Nevertheless he promised, and undertook to look for Trevelyan at the Acrobats on that afternoon.
The Acrobats was a very distinguished club, into which it was now difficult for a young man to find his way, and almost impossible for a man who was no longer young, and therefore known to many.
In the Central Provinces the Garudis or snake-charmers, and the Kolhatis, a class of gipsy acrobats akin to the Berias, are also known as Nat, and these are treated in separate articles.
The acrobats especially appeared to be holding the attention of the sentries.
NEAR the entrance of the field, of which I have spoken, there was a platform twelve or fifteen feet high, and twenty-five or thirty feet square, where a dozen acrobats were performing by the light of a row of open pots of burning oil.
All theatres were supposed to be shut, with the result that while the legitimate drama was suppressed, acrobats or mountebanks of any sort could give entertainments.
Punch, to his credit, inveighed vehemently against the senseless inhumanity of aeronautic acrobats who made a practice of taking up animals with them.
This was the establishment of the Honourable Mr. Batulcar, a sort of Barnum, a director of a troupe of acrobats and jugglers, who were giving their last representations, prior to their departure to the United States.
The performance was very much the same as all acrobatic displays; but it must be stated that the Japanese are the cleverest acrobats in the world.
But the robbers thought he was just running back to his dressing-room, as all acrobats do, and would come back again for his bow.
In one end ring Helen was performing with Rosebud, while in another a troupe of Japanese acrobatswere doing wonderful things with their supple bodies.
One of the men acrobats has sprained his wrist and they've got to cut out his act.
The acrobats and dancing-girls go about to fairs and other gatherings and make a platform on a cart, which serves as a stage for their performances.
Boys who are to become acrobats are taught to jump from early youth.
There were monkeyacrobats made of clay, wire and skin, fastened to a small slip of bamboo.
This showman had with him three boy acrobats whose skill he proceeded to show.
One sensation of Conquest’s management was the ascent, in 1852, of Coxwell’s balloon, with the acrobats H.
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