Nothing could stop the boys but time, or some other play coming in; and circuseslasted a good while.
As soon as a circus had been in town, the boys began to have circuses of their own, and to practise for them.
The circuses of Newsome and Hengler are located for three months at a time in permanent buildings in the larger towns, and the travelling circuses visit in turn every town in the kingdom.
The proprietors of menageries and circuses are always amusing, if not very lucid, when they set forth in type the attractions of their shows.
I don't know; there may be bullier circuses than what that one was, but I never struck them yet.
I'm coming to the circus to-morrow," announced Freddie, as though going to circuses was all there was to do in this world.
Circuses don't come around here very often, and when they do, we generally go.
Footnote 588: The Circus Maximus, frequently mentioned by Suetonius, was so called because it was the largest of all the circuses in and about Rome.
In the first of these, he practised with the weapons used in war; and drove the chariot in circuses built in several places.
It is well-known that circuses do not come to every little place; hence the arrival of the Hon.
It differs from other interiors ofcircuses only in size and in this,—that the seats are of stone.
The Thermæ and the Circuses are the only kind of buildings appropriated to public amusements of which there remain any relics at Rome.
Two circuses were headed for the town; Rosston, Springer & Henderson's and Thayer & Noyse Great American Circus.
Alfred was almost overcome with the thought of two circuses coming to town.
He maintained a field whereon the circuses pitched their tents.
The innovation was heralded as a feature and to this day circuses advertise the mounted band as a novelty of the "highway, holiday parade.
The seats in the other circuses seem to have been from the first of stone.
All of the Roman circuses known to us had the same general arrangement, which will be readily understood from the plan of the Circus of Maxentius shown in Fig.
You see, our shells falling on schools and circuses don't disembowel little girls; our blockades don't starve them.
The people are blase: they seek only bread and circuses for themselves.
I didn't know so much about circuses then as I do now," replied the boy, sadly.
Circuses and theatres are the invention of the Evil One.
The world was a globe no longer, space was no more filled with whirling circuses of spheres.
For one, I should have thought circuses would be the best possible places for business in London, not only because the address is so easily remembered, but because once you get into them they are so extremely difficult to get out of.
It contains an account of how Laurence Franconi taught the present manager of the two circuses the principles of the School of Versailles, whilst freeing good horsemanship from the superfluities in use in the time of Pluvinel.
Since the appearance of Oceana no one of such perfect proportions has been seen in either of the circuses or the Hippodrome.
Some of the wild animals they used for food, and others they sold to white men who wanted them for circuses and menageries.
In fact, it was a small circus marching through the jungle, and all the animals had been caught, in one way or another, to be sold to circuses and menageries.
Often, incircuses and menageries, the animals become so homesick, and long so for the land from which they have been taken, that they become ill and die.
At one time he had a corps of five thousand men under pay to applaud him, in the immense circuses and amphitheaters where he performed.
Another pious rabbi expresses the hope that theatres and circusesat Rome at some future time may "be converted into academies of virtue and morality.
The smallcircuses that hover around Chicago and the larger cities of the West in summer usually use a tent about eighty feet across, with two thirty-foot middle pieces.
Each year new attractions were added to this show, and, in 1879, the New United Monster Shows were organized by Mr. Coup and developed into one of the largest consolidated circuses in the United States.
Many people--and this was particularly true in the South--entertained the notion that circuses secured most of their performers by stealing children.
The draught horses used by circuses vary in price, some of them being purchased cheap from horse markets; but I have always found that the best I could get were the most economical.
Like all other circuses of that day, the big show of which I was the manager traveled by wagon.
The most surprising and unexcelled feat of double somersault throwing was that of the Garnella Brothers, who performed it in variety halls and circuses a few years ago.
Many people affect to be indifferent to the attractions of the circus, saying that they saw one when they were young and as all circuses are the same there is no use in going to see another.
Until late years circuses generally gave a balloon ascension before the afternoon performance took place, and sometimes a slack-wire performance was added.
But for this daily practice the performances of our circuses would be the theatre of many a tragedy instead of the scenes of mirth and gladness that they are.
Mr. Cottrell also told me that this does not approach the lavishness of circuses in decorating the fences and walls and bill-boards of cities.
On the other hand, apologies are written in defence of the bull-fights, new circuses are built, old ones are renewed, and the foreigners who cry out against Spanish barbarity are laughed to scorn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circuses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
