While other Harlequins merely repeated themselves, Sacchi, who always adhered to the essence of the play, contrived to give an air of freshness to the piece by his new sallies and unexpected repartees.
Nor is this all; princes have ranked them among the Rosciuses; and Harlequins and Scaramouches have been ennobled.
Even Harlequins themselves have written elaborate treatises on the almost insurmountable difficulties of their art.
So harlequins (thought I) look when they are dead.
But nobody inharlequins beat Rich, the manager of this theatre.
Pink Rose Buds enter without offering for the Goddess, and prevail upon the Harlequins to help them out of their difficulties.
The Harlequins send Poppies for the great La France Rose Buds as an offering, and perform "The Transformation of the Rose.
Both Harlequins enter, perform a dance, and command the blooming of the Pink Rose Buds.
We see harlequins of so many kinds in the real living pantomime, that we hardly know which to select as the proper fellow of him of the theatres.
Not a bit of it," answered Spencer, "so you may go and look among the Harlequins and Clowns yourself, and Heaven help you!
And this was all I could get from him; so up I came this morning, and knowing that you were acquainted with theatrical people, I thought I'd come and ask you which of the Clowns and which of the Harlequins it was most likely to be.
I suppose, now, there are a good many Clowns and Harlequins in London,--eh?
Of course Cards is having a good shot at it, but he isn't down against the Harlequins on Saturday, and mighty sick he is about it.
Moreover, since the afternoon when Olva had played against the Harlequins and covered himself with glory, Lawrence had shown a disposition to make friends.
The poor Gentleman's Sufferings put me in mind of Harlequins Case, who was tickled to Death.
We had a Judge that danced a Minuet, with a Quaker for his Partner, while half a dozen Harlequins stood by as Spectators: A Turk drank me off two Bottles of Wine, and a Jew eat me up half a Ham of Bacon.
The noise had become incessant: Pierrots and Pierrettes, Harlequins and Columbines had worked themselves up into a veritable intoxication of shouts and laughter.
There were to be Pierrots and Pierettes, Harlequins and English clowns, aristocrats and goddesses!
When he danced, he danced so swiftly that a million harlequins there seemed to be about me: and when he held me in his arms, I hid my head against his shoulder, because I loved him dearly.
No other clowns or harlequins would please their royal majesties, and so they left in anger.
If the Harlequins do not play so many matches as of yore, it must not be ascribed to lack of enthusiasm, but to the more lengthy programme of the Authentics, who possess a wider range of selection.
And Harlequin he did give them, in the person of Woodward, one of the best of Harlequins that ever trod the stage.
The constant mating of harlequins has the tendency to make the black patches disappear, and the union with a good black Great Dane will prevent the loss of colour.
The harlequins have on a pure white ground fairly large black patches, which must be of irregular shape, broken up as if they had been torn, and not have rounded outlines.
The throng had immensely increased; the clowns and harlequins ran shrieking up and down, and leaped over one another's heads.
Clowns in white, with big noses, and harlequins in their motley, with flat black masks, abounded.
Carter, the Ashminster centre, who had captained his school for three years and played for the Harlequinsin the holidays, was in desperate pursuit.
Martin found himself by the side of a red-faced, ingenuous boy, who asked for the water and then said: "The Harlequins are better than ever this year.
The feet of theharlequins had raised much dust, and at last the room became dim.
One of the harlequins changed his partner every few minutes, but the other did not loosen his grasp of the girl whom he had brought with him from the house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harlequins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
