The jugglers of a lower order especially excelled in tumbling and in tricks of legerdemain (Figs.
If it happens that the tricks of jugglers are forced upon your notice, endeavour to avoid them, and think of other things.
The kings of jugglers were the privileged performers, and their feats and the other amusements, which continued on each occasion for several days, were provided for at the sovereign's sole expense.
These minstrels were always accompanied by jugglers and instrumentalists, who formed a travelling troop (Fig.
At the end of the fourteenth century the brotherhood of jugglers divided itself into two distinct classes, the jugglers proper and the tumblers.
It must not be imagined that these jugglers merely recited snatches from tales and fables in rhyme; this was the least of their talents.
St. Bernard spoke thus of them in one of his sermons written in the middle of the twelfth century: "A man fond of jugglers will soon enough possess a wife whose name is Poverty.
Notwithstanding this noble instance, not to belie the old proverb, jugglers were never received into the order of knighthood.
These kings of jugglers exercised a supreme authority over the art of jugglery and over all the members of this jovial fraternity.
You have heard of the Japanese jugglers at the Academy of Music?
It happened that at this time a company of Japanese jugglers were performing at the Academy of Music, which, as my New York readers know, is situated on Fourteenth Street.
Often, too, dancers and jugglers and comic actors, of both sexes and in every costume, came to engage the eye, without lessening the pleasures of the table.
Our dancers and jugglers are introduced after dinner, not during dinner; and we have our warriors at the table amongst the guests.
Now we may have a little fun," he said to his guests, "for there are jugglers outside who will perform their wonderful tricks before us.
Oh, we are jugglers from a distant province," said the elder, smiling and pointing towards the box.
Soon it was spread about among the crowd that two famous jugglers had just arrived from the capital, and that they were able to perform many wonderful deeds.
We meet with jugglers in Homer,[1994] also mountebanks and tumblers.
Women had previously appeared as jugglers and mountebanks.
Although all these modern fasters have been accused of being jugglers and deceivers, throughout their fasts they showed constant decrease in weight, and inspection by visitors was welcomed at all times.
With these same people the foot-jugglers are most common.
The Lord thereupon charged the priests to nourish the wenches, and he enjoined the seigneurs to keep the jugglers well fed.
Since these two jugglers started over the country, the dogs of heretics have shown their teeth with greater madness!
This is the most dangerous looking of all the tricks I have seenjugglers perform.
In the matter of travelling shows and jugglers also, no country is better supplied, and these are chiefly for the entertainment of the little ones.
The Chinese, too, profess to be good jugglers and magicians, and so they are.
Heller or Houdin--I forget which of these magicians--found a taste among Oriental jugglers for pounded glass, which they ate in large quantities.
As I have spoken above about the jugglers and tricksters of the Orient I may as well say that I witnessed the performances of the trickster who was in Harry French's Hindoo troupe.
Though the ten is one of the cards employed in Marcolini's System of Fortune-telling, it appears to have been generally omitted in the packs of cards used by the Italian jugglers of the sixteenth century.
Yet there are milder pastimes in equal favour, and far more in accordance with the fancy of southerners in warm weather, such as watching a group of jugglers or snake-charmers, or listening to a story-teller.
The jugglers are usually poor, the production of fire from the mouth, of water from an empty jar, and so on, forming stock items.
By these means it is, that these artful Jugglers renders themselves formidable to the common people, and by getting into the secrets of most of the families of the nation, acquire a hank over them.
The great secret of these Jugglers consists in having a great Oorakin full of water, from any river in which it was known there were beaver-huts.
Afterwards we will swim the water and disguise ourselves as jugglers and try to reach the coast, and so back to Egypt, having learned much.
As for you, Bes, though I think that is not your name, do not lie except when you are obliged, for jugglers who play with too many knives are apt to cut their fingers.
A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.
Celsus described the Christians as jugglers performing their tricks among the young and the credulous.
Jugglers were the first to controvert this error, by publicly swallowing it with impunity, a feat which Dr.
Jugglers have been known to swallow, not only pounded glass, but stones and knife blades.
Ventriloquists are a better order ofjugglers than the Incombustibles.
Jugglers of both sexes, either single or in gangs, were common all over Greece putting up their booths, as Xenophon says, wherever money and silly people could be found.
Amongst the pictures of female jugglers in all kinds of impossible postures, can be seen a girl performing the dangerous sword-dance, described by Plato.
These were but a few of the tricks the rabbit jugglers performed, and they were so skillful that all the nobility and even the King applauded as loudly as did Dorothy.
I suppose there are no rabbit jugglers in all the world to compare with these," remarked the King.
First, they pushed in a big red ball and three of the rabbit jugglers stood upon its top and made it roll.
And I'll ask her to let you keep some of your clothes and the lily chair and one or two jugglers to amuse you.
When the soldiers had marched out he said to the company: "The Royal Jugglers will now appear.
Dorothy had seen many jugglers in her lifetime, but never any so interesting as these.
In about a quarter of an hour they stopped before a large hut, adorned with flags, upon which a troupe of jugglers were depicted, without any attempt at perspective.
The jugglers threw them up in the air, knocked them from one to the other like shuttlecocks, put them into their pockets and took them out again, and all the time they never ceased to spin.
Ye wise philosophers, explain What magic makes our money rise, When dropt into the Southern main; Or do these jugglers cheat our eyes?
The very looks of this prince of jugglers had the power to excite painful cramps and twitches in his credulous and predisposed patients.
They were used by jugglers or players, "joculatores," nomadic sometimes, and sometimes belonging to the household of the great.
Some jugglers excelled in this; they were live gargoyles and were paid "the one to play the drunkard, another the fool, a third to imitate the cat.
When the musicians and jugglers tried to cheer her grief by their play, she told .
Jugglers and sleight-of-hand artists and to my surprise the man with the birds whom I had met on my journey out, came to greet us and to display the best of their wares.
Many of the performances of jugglers and ventriloquists puzzle us, and yet we do not believe there is any thing supernatural in them.
The feats of the ancient jugglers were many of them mere acts of deception.
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