There is no sign of theclowns in {92} the score, so I fear Smith's librettist cut them out; but the music is all by one composer and all in one style.
Two clownswere performing with a lot of little dogs.
As it fell apart, the clowns ran in every direction, pretending to be frightened.
One of the clowns who was an expert at make-up, coated the children’s faces with a cold-cream-like covering of zinc oxide and olive oil.
He won't dare show himself after the way the clowns had fun with him when the show was here before.
The first surprise was given when the clowns came out for their first entry.
The lads opened their eyes wide when a troop of painted clowns came trotting in, followed by half a dozen acrobats, all in ring costume.
The ring attendants brought out strips of bright yellow cloth, which two clowns held across the ring for the Circus Boy to leap over as his horse passed under.
Some of the clowns had rigged up fishing outfits and sat on the bank in the rain trying to catch fish, though there probably was not a fish within a mile of them, according to Phil's idea.
Three clowns and three maids have barely ended their rustic jig when he calls out, 'Beshrew my heart, of a number of ill legs I never saw worse dancers.
Some may ask me here, 'How comes it to pass, since she is so nice and touchy a lady, that so many clowns court and carry her, and so many fools keep her so long?
I must needs say if the Poet had any share of either of these Qualities, he would be less bold with his Superiors; and not give his Clowns the Liberty to droll thus heavily upon a solemn Character.
Illustration] This illustration represents a troupe of clowns I once saw on the Continent.
The reader is asked to discover how these eight clowns may arrange themselves in the form of a square (one place being vacant), so that every one of the three columns, three rows, and each of the two diagonals shall add up the same.
Do see that wagon full of clowns and queerly dressed people.
Is it any wonder that Tessa and her brother slept but little that night, and that when they did, they dreamed of processions and bonbons and clowns and flower-decked wagons and all sorts of strange sights?
The tricks of the clowns with their traditional pointed felt hats are well known.
There were two clowns at the Cirque Franconi who duplicated this feat, and the program called their dinner "Un dejouner en tete-a-tete.
She grew still paler as her brain pictured for the first time the things that might happen in this camp of clowns of whose real sentiments the intruders had so little knowledge, at whose possible treachery it was so easy to guess.
Everywhere, and at all times, the more fanatical or the more suspicious drew together in corners, and while simpler clowns cursed low or muttered of treachery, darker spirits whispered devilish plans.
The jests and "excellent fooling" of Shakespeare's clowns and drolls serve to emphasize the deep thought or sentiment which is the real import of the poet's work.
Let clowns get wealth and heirs: when I am gone And that great bugbear, grisly Death, Shall take this idle breath, If I a poem leave, that poem is my son.
That's all right," I put in, "they were clowns just the same.
The clownsbow to the gentleman, making idiotic faces.
The clownsresume their music, POLLY marching on, then turning, the younger following.
The clowns follow him respectfully, playing a funeral march.
The clowns cluck like hens, bark, and express their emotions in many other ways.
The clowns come first, talking cheerfully and excitedly.
The clowns cackle like ducks, hens, cocks; they bark.
The clowns play a soft and naive song: tilly-polly, tilly-polly.
At length, espying certain clownspassing by, he cried, "For the love of God help me down!
The doggerel rhyme favored in the popular drama was to give place to blank verse, and the jigging clowns to heroic themes and "high astounding terms.
Even the sport of the clowns throws the whole into stronger relief.
He was peeping through the curtains which had fallen behind her, and was getting his first glimpse of the great, sawdust world beyond, when one of the clowns dashed from the dressing tent on his way to the ring.
White-faced clownsand gaily attired acrobats crowded around Polly and the pastor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clowns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
