To all these suggestions thejongleur made no response, but sat with his eye fixed abstractedly upon the ceiling, as one who calls words to his mind.
The tooth-drawer and the gleeman called for a cup of small ale apiece, and started off together for Ringwood fair, the old jongleur looking very yellow in the eye and swollen in the face after his overnight potations.
The jongleurhad put down his harp in high dudgeon.
Charlemagne and Alexander, the sagas of Teutonic tribes, the tale of Imperial Rome itself, though still affording subject matter to the wandering jongleuror monkish annalist, paled before the fame of the British King.
Nothing seemed impossible to a generation which knew of toils and quests greater than any minstrel had sung, which had beheld in the East sights as wondrous and fearful as any the jongleur could tell of.
If the song was started by the Duke's order, it was certainly started by the Duke's jongleur, and the name of this jongleur happens to be known on still better authority than that of William of Malmesbury.
The request of a jongleur to lead the Duke's battle seems incredible.
The jongleur was not noble by birth, but was ennobled by his bravery.
My lord," said the jongleur with more confidence, "the night is late, and I have known many sounds appear like human voices in the night.
The jongleur saw enormous purple shadows leap at each other across the room, and play, fantastic, about the bed.
When the jongleur began to sing little catches in couplets, plucking the string of his crowth the while for accompaniment, they nudged each other with delight at each coarse suggestion.
Then," the jongleur would conclude in quite the approved modern music-hall style, "the sward was all besprent with what remained.
Nothing, my lord," said the jongleur in deep amazement.
The jongleur in the hall played upon his crowth, and sang them Serventes, Lays, and songs of battle.
Far, far away in some distant steading, the jongleur heard the crowing of a cock.
A jongleur was a singer who was not a poet, though he might make songs.
As this particular jongleur entered the courtyard, he spied Geoffrey, and strolling over to the bench amiably seated himself beside the boy with a friendly “Good morrow, my lad!
So the heralds were on their way to Dives, if what the jongleur told was true, and he believed it was; and the jongleur had said, moreover, that these heralds could stop even the wicked Hugo from carrying out his designs.
The jongleur then caught sight of the coach drawn up by the inn wall.
Or worst of all, what if the jongleur had not spoken the truth, and there were no heralds anyway!
Silent he stood before her for an obvious interval, still as an effigy, while meltingly the jongleur sang.
Instead he went from her smilingly, treading through the hall with many affable salutations, while always the jongleur sang.
The king is unable to draw from the jongleur any answer to any purpose: What is his name?
Lately at the castle a jongleur told this anecdote: "A certain peasant showered his wife with blows on principle.
This is fairly well known by the company, but is not threadbare; it gives plenty of opportunity for the women to weep, and the jongleur says that he has a new version not overlengthy.
And remember this: When cavalier or jongleur rails hardest against worthless churchmen, it is not bishop, priest, or monk whom half the time they have in their pates, but slothful canons.
The high jongleur begins his story in an easy recitative which occasionally breaks into melodious arias.
Then comes a jongleur on horseback, playing with his sword, tossing it high in the air and catching as it whirls downward.
It is often a question, indeed, to tell when a jongleur is really anything more than a roving scoundrel.
A jongleur is always received heartily and entertained with the best; the payment will be in songs and tricks after supper.
All the vices which other ages impute to actors are charged against them, and there is an old jesting question, "Which would you rather be, a jongleur or a robber?
It is a red-letter day when a new jongleur or, better still, a troupe of jongleurs arrive.
Meantime there are hunts, hawkings, dances, garden feasts, and jongleur recitals.
If thisjongleur had lied, Bracciolini meant to kill him for his insolence.
Bracciolini's own haphazard youth had taught him that a jongleur had no civil rights, was a creature to be beaten, robbed, or stabbed with impunity.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco heard that Le Cherubin was set to music, and he remembered Le Jongleur de Notre Dame which he had welcomed so splendidly and which I had respectfully dedicated to him.
We found in my room spread out on the large table (I flatter myself it was a famous table for it had belonged to the illustrious Diderot) the engraved piano and vocal score for Le Jongleur de Notre Dame.
Le Jongleurde Notre Dame was ready and I offered it.
The title Le Jongleur de Notre Dame followed by the sub-title "Miracle in Three Acts" enchanted me.
That is why, as I have said, Le Jongleurde Notre Dame was put on at Monte Carlo in 1902.
As I have spoken of Griseldis, I will add that as I had two works free, that and Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, my publisher offered Albert Carre his choice and he took Griseldis.
The work long ago passed its hundredth performance at Paris, and as I write these lines Le Jongleur de Notre Dame has had a place in the repertoire of the American houses for several years.
A dear friend said to me recently, "If you wrote Le Jongleur de Notre Dame with faith, you wrote Therese with all your heart.
His Highness invited us to his box--the one where I had been called at the end of the premiere of Le Jongleur de Notre Dame and where the Prince of Monaco himself had publicly invested me with the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Charles.
Two years later my dear director Albert Carre gave the first performance of Le Jongleur de Notre Dame at the Opera-Comique with this ideal cast: Lucien Fugere, Marechal, the creator of the part, and Allard.
What if I should let you hear fragments of our Le Jongleur de Notre Dame?
And thus, as Julia watched the little Jongleur upon the lawn, she saw this was what he was doing: offering all he knew, hoping that someone might laugh at him, and like him.
The sum asked was large, but the ass displayed such wonderful intelligence that the jongleur gladly paid it, and departed, taking with him the ass and a piece of advice from the old women--not to let the ass go near running water.
For some time all went well, the ass became an immense attraction, and the jongleur was growing passing rich, when, in one of his drunken fits, he allowed the animal to escape.
Silent he stood before her, still as an effigy, while meltingly the jongleur sang.
Instead he went away from her smilingly, treading through the hall with many affable salutations, while the jongleur sang.
Le Jongleur held aloft his bauble, making it to nod in merry fashion, but the Lord of Content did not see, his eyes being fixed upon Elaine.
At noon, when the white sun trembled at the zenith, Le Jongleururged his donkey forward, and presented to Elaine a glorious rose which he had found blooming at the wayside.
Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, perhaps the most poetically conceived of Massenet's lyric dramas, was the result of this decision.
She had practically offered that fallacious jongleur money, and it did not make it easier to offer him lunch.
Jongleur won the French Derby (one hundred and three thousand francs) in 1877, besides thirteen other important races.
The traveling minstrel was in France a jongleur (Provencal jogleur).
The distinction between trouvere or troubadour and jongleur is not always to be sharply drawn.
But they were there to be used, according to the judgment of the jongleur and the temper of his audience, and their presence in the poem is very suggestive of the special difficulties in the art of rhapsodic poetry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jongleur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
