For them that crowd of maskers was but as a gallery of pictures, mere scenic decoration, of no significance.
It is supposed that if strange maskers make their way into a village, fertility will be drawn away to the village from which they have come; hence the villagers resist an inroad of strange maskers at any price.
Some of the maskers carry clubs; it is their duty to beat all who fall into their hands and to levy contributions from them.
Then came the merrymaskers in, 70 And carols roar'd with blithesome din; If unmelodious was the song, It was a hearty note, and strong.
For heaven's sake, my dear Monsieur Chamoureau, do you think it necessary to take offence at all the nonsense maskers say to you?
Despite her disguise, one could divine that the costume covered a person well accustomed to the noisy demonstrations of the maskersand to the eccentricities of the dancers.
As a general rule, all those maskers who are costumed in character dance, for they aim to display as much extravagance in their dancing as in their costumes.
I know where the maskers are,--most of them, child; and I do not think it would be well for you to know.
It is well to refuse the half-franc,--though you do not know what these maskers might take a notion to do to-day.
The flood of maskers recloses behind the ominous passage; --the drums boom again; the dance recommences; and all the fantastic mummery ebbs swiftly out of sight.
Night falls;--the maskers crowd to the ball-rooms to dance strange tropical measures that will become wilder and wilder as the hours pass.
Here on Shrove Tuesday evening hundreds of maskers dance under the leafless branches, and sometimes in spite of the cutting wind and dropping rain.
There were to be six of these savages in chains, and they were to perform a dance before the wedding party, and one of these maskers was to be the Bastard of Foix.
Before this pass the fantastic cars bearing maskers representing various trades or else allegorical groups.
Such an order was accordingly issued, and when the maskersentered the room, the serjeants commanded all torch-bearers to withdraw.
No one knew who the maskers were, and various conjectures were offered.
Then came the merry maskers in, And carols roared with blithesome din.
At Binche, they say--I have not counted them myself--that thirty thousandmaskers can be seen dancing at the same time.
A few hundred maskers force their way with difficulty through thousands of dull-clad spectators, looking like a Spanish river in the summer time, a feeble stream, dribbling through acres of muddy bank.
Then the maskers went first and saluted all the dames as they sat, and then returned to the most worthiest, and there opened a cup full of gold, with crowns and other pieces of coin, to whom they set divers pieces to cast at.
Then came the merry maskers in, And carols roared with blithesome din; If unmelodious was the song, It was a hearty note, and strong.
As there is a great Apprehension of a Croud, all the Maskers are turn'd away at Dinner-time.
A contemporary representation of such an entree of maskers is to be seen in the curious painting representing Sir H.
The horses start from the Piazza del Popolo, and gallop along to the Column of Trajan, between two lines of carriages drawn up beside two narrow pavements which are crowded with maskers and people of all classes.
As soon as the horses have passed the carriages begin to move, and the maskers on foot and horseback occupy the middle of the street.
The maskers who seized our fellow citizen, and misused him in a manner of which his body retains some slight marks, may have met with their former prisoner as he returned homewards, and finished their ill usage by taking his life.
They show themselves in the streets as the companions ofmaskers and harlots, and in the council as the scorners of the church and of holy things.
After the moment of his escape from these revellers, we lose all trace of Oliver' but we can prove that the maskers went to Sir John Ramorny's, where they were admitted, after some show of delay.
Thou wast not with the maskers yesterday, in the square?
In the square the maskers gradually reappeared, though the alarm had been too sudden and violent, to admit a speedy return to the levity which ordinarily was witnessed in that spot, between the setting and the rising of the sun.
It was now filled by maskers and the idlers of the Piazzetta.
Maskers glided along the porticoes as usual; the song and cry were heard anew, and Venice was again absorbed in delusive gaiety.
Soldiers and bands of music led the way; then came the maskers and the flower-maidens, the city guilds and all the arts and crafts.
There should be a grand pageant of soldiers and maskers and music.
Near to the spot where Eric stood with the princess, he saw one of the two suspicious merman maskers lurking among the trees, with a cross-bow in his hand.
The tables in the colonnade before the popular cafe were crowded with maskers who were endeavouring to get rid of the dust from their throats, notwithstanding the showers of pellets which continually swept upon them.
Most of these maskers belonged to the middle and easy classes of society.
The maskers now got down from their chariot, and from their horses, and went to take their places at the repast, which was waiting for them.
Five minutes after there was a rush to see some maskers who were coming in, and I stood so as to have a good view.
When the last glimmer of the blazing phantom had vanished, like a falling star, at the end of the valley, every one withdrew, crowd and maskers alike, and we quitted the ramparts with our guests.
On the middle of the bridge lay the figure of Shrove Tuesday on a litter of leaves, surrounded by scores of maskers dancing, singing, and carrying torches.
At dusk, these maskersdismounted and promenaded in couples about the plaza.
Packs of youngsters chased behind and crowded upon them; they also pelted them with stones, and the head of one of the maskers was bleeding quite profusely, but he still kept up his headlong run and trilling.
The maskers who followed these venerable figures were succeeded by two Bards, arrayed in white, and bearing harps, which they occasionally touched, singing at the same time certain stanzas of an ancient hymn to Belus, or the Sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maskers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
