I can find neither reason nor principle in the mouths of those literary mountebanks hired by the police, who dance in the gutters for the amusement of lacqueys.
I can neither find reason nor honour in the mouths of those literary mountebanks in the hire of the Police, who dance in the kennels for the amusement of lacqueys.
Nero could not resist the temptation to avail himself of this grand occasion for the display of his powers, and he prepared to appear among the other actors and mountebanksas a competitor for the theatrical prizes.
In every square rise booths of mountebanks and jesters; and we have under our windows a circus-tent, in which a little Venetian company, with five horses, is giving a show.
In order to form a conception of the scenes which were enacted on an Italian piazza crowded with charlatans, mountebanks and players, we must have recourse again to Garzoni.
It clung to the tradition of mountebanksand mimes, acrobats and jongleurs, circus-clowns and rope-dancers.
You frequently hear of the tricks of the London cheats, and I daresay you have often enough witnessed those of mountebanks and gypsies.
But as courts are the field for caballers, the public is the theatre for mountebanks and impostors.
But to-day, what is politically proposed by our senatorial charlatans and the mountebanks of the market-place?
And they seized the threemountebanks and hustled them away.
In time John taught him many tricks, such as he had seen the mountebanks do with their traveling bears.
For let it be understood the Fabianis were no common mountebanks for whom one passed a hat.
The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie.
Many different avenues of approach to the subject have been opened; some by sincere and earnest men of scientific minds and scholarly attainments; some by sincere and earnest but unscientific laymen; and some by mountebanks and charlatans.
And thus the mountebanks and harlequins of these outrageous times were compounding dynamite in their laboratories that would ere long explode under their feet.
Mountebanks sat in judgment upon the lives and liberties of a vanquished people; everywhere violating all the guaranties of freedom.
It has proved, however, no small advantage to mountebanks to be backed by the authority of the illustrious name of St. Augustin!
It is worthy of remark, that mountebanks often clear the way for the march of science; a proof that the most trivial observations may be the origin of the grandest results.
These mountebankswere the only real possessors of the philosopher's stone.
The mountebanks were all alive and merry, and a golden harvest was reaped in the Rounds.
Why not be merry your own way, and let mountebanks be merry theirs?
A VOICE We are players, your Highness, mountebanks commanded for the pleasure of the Queen.
Tell these mountebanks to leave the palace grounds before dawn.
This woman, albeit a notorious career has classed her with mountebanks and worse in the minds of reasonable beings, had yet by some element or other in her character retained a degree of public respect.
Much of it could be traced back to the very first mountebanks who wandered about the streets of the ancient cities, or squatted at the gates of palaces or in market-places to catch the frequent obolus from the curious passer-by.
Mountebanks flourished on the continent as well as in England, and the Belphegor of the dramatist had many prototypes in Italy and France.
Coryat, a little-known writer, who made the tour of Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and published a narrative of his adventures and experiences, gives a good account of the mountebanks he saw at Venice.
It is suggested by Mr. John Noake, however, that these mountebanks were riders or posturers, and that the amount was the charge made for the permission accorded them to perform in the city.
These mountebanks at one end of their stage place their trunk, which is replenished with a world of new-fangled trumperies.
In the street a travelling circus was passing, with mountebanks on donkeys and harlequins in parti-coloured dresses.
When they arrived the mountebanks had set up their tent beside the town gate, and an abominable scraping of fiddles and banging of drums announced that the performance had begun.
His inability to grasp the principles on which other performers built their tricks is shown most clearly when he attempts to describe and explain the performances of the Arabian mountebanks whom he saw during his stay in Algiers.
At last my excitement mastered me; a clock in a neighbouring belfry chimed the hour of four, and I crept out of my corner and mingled with the gipsies and mountebanks who were encamped with their booths in the centre of the Square.
Eliza Sydney had returned to the side of Lady Ravensworth, to whom she mentioned the presence of the mountebanks and the encouragement which they had received from Mr. Vernon.
But her attention was for the time directed towards six persons, five of whom were clad in the light grotesque manner in which mountebanks appear at country-fairs, and even not unfrequently in the streets of London.
One of the mountebanks ascended to the tightrope, and performed many curious evolutions, much to the amusement not only of the servants assembled upon the steps at the entrance, but even of the nurse at the window.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mountebanks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
