Agastya also, of mighty energy, having thus accomplished the business of the true Indra, that performer of a hundred sacrifices, returned to his own asylum, worshipped by all members of the regenerate order.
Commensurate with the number of Brahmanas seen by one that deserves to be excluded from the line, is the loss of merit he causes of the foolish performer of the Sraddha who invites him to the feast.
The meaning is that the Brahmana who assists the performer of the Sraddha by reciting the Mantras should, upon completion, say unto the performer that the Sraddha is well-performed.
The performer of the Sraddha who gives away such offerings unto such a Brahmana falls away from prosperity and multiplies not his race.
Before playing it the performer carefully stops up one of his nostrils with leaves and then applies the other to the first hole into which he gently blows with his nose.
Each step it takes recalls a new recollection, and thus it goes through its development as a performer performs a piece of music, each bar leading his recollection to the bar that should next follow.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barry the first performerto whom granted, i.
The performer of this trick borrows a number of hats, and places them on the table.
A whole party has been astonished by the performer holding a pack of cards over his head, and naming each.
The performer takes his seat behind the small horse, and holding the stick to which the threads are fastened in his left hand, he manages the motions of the puppet with the fingers of his right hand.
This, however, should not be attempted until the performer is well on the slide, or the result will probably be that he'll measure his length upon the ground.
The performer in this case had to hop upon inflated leather bags, carefully greased, and of course, by their inevitable upsettings and floundering, caused great amusement to the spectators.
Now, if any one will watch a performer on the trapeze, he will see that the attitude is nearly perpendicular, and that any other position is really absurd and impracticable.
There seem to be no means of propulsion, and the performer appears, to an uninitiated spectator, to be impelled by a simple act of volition.
The dingy curtains which conceal the street performer of Punch, are supported by a tall rectangular frame of wood, which the reader could not imitate without considerable labour and some knowledge of carpentry.
Illustration] Take notice that the arms are always at full length during the swing, and that the illustrations which represent the performer swinging with bent arms are entirely erroneous.
The performer grasps the cross-bar in both hands at the full stretch of his arms, holds himself quite straight and stiff, points his toes, and then falls forward, as shown in the engraving.
For the pedal may be substituted a lever running immediately under the surface of the table, if the performer prefers to have a short cloth on it.
It is possible, by dint of practice, to manage so as to make the entire circuit of the pole in four such revolutions, and the course of the performer is shown by the accompanying diagram (fig.
They always will show the performer in an attitude which the draughtsman is pleased to think a graceful one; but it is inexpressibly graceless and ridiculous in the eyes of a gymnast.
I have myself held the hands of an amateur performer when the twig was moving, and neither by sight nor touch could I detect any muscular movement on his part, much less a spasm.
I am sensible that there is not a weaver in Spitalfields but can dance better than the first performer in the French Opera; and yet, how could I refuse this commission?
I wonder they can spare such a principal performer from hell!
There, it can be no inexperienced performer gave that shake; my worthy housekeeper never accomplished that!
The performer now takes the hammer, and holding his left hand under the table, knocks on the top of the ball, which passes right through the table into the hand underneath it, and it may all be again examined.
In the original version of the trick the performer comes forward with a bottle and a glass--if these things are not already on the table.
The performer then showed once more that the tube was free from preparation by rattling the pin inside it, and he at once went on with the "Wine and Water" trick, using the water in the finger-bowl for that trick.
The performer pours water from the bottle into the glass; in fact, he fills the glass with water.
Remember, as the penny showman announces at country fairs, that "The true Hart of Conjuring is to make the And of the performer deceive the Heye of the spectator.
Let the performer then go to the lemon, and separating the divisions into which it has been sliced, push them one by one apart.
If the palmed card is not known by the performer this will give him an opportunity of seeing it.
The imitation candle-ends should not be handed round for inspection; but when the performer is able to make a clever substitution it may be advisable to allow some real candle-ends to be carefully examined.
To confuse the spectators, the packs, after the first dealing, may be picked up out of the proper order, so long as the performer bears in mind in what order the pack containing the selected card is picked up.
The borrowed coin should be taken between the finger and thumb of the right hand, and while it is being handed up, the performer should secretly take a similar coin from some concealed part of his clothes, and palm it in the right hand.
Place the whole of the pack, face downwards, on the table, and near to the edge at which the performer is sitting, the performer being careful to be alone on one side of the table, with the audience facing him.
Let the performer then dexterously palm the coin or make away with it in some other manner, make some cabalistic flourish of the magic wand, utter some charm, and declare the coin to have vanished.
A performer would naturally render them so; he could hardly help being more subdued at the piano passages and more animated at the forte.
This mechanism had not the advantage enjoyed by the performer of dispensing with the metronome and varying the time to suit the music.
The performerrealized this, and, as the fire was getting hotter, he made another desperate attempt to reach the parachute.
The old man had, some fifty years ago, been no mean performer upon the vielle; and at the age he was then of, touched it well enough for the purpose.
Again, the barking of dogs may not be much in itself, yet we have seen a performer cause roars of laughter by making his phantom poodles dance, tumble, and leap over chairs and through a hoop, to a lively tune on the piano.
Consequently all the shuffling and cutting in the world will be useless, for the performer has only to spread out the cards of each set to point out the cards drawn.
A string F may be put at E and then the lath is not necessary, for the performercan then hold string F in one hand and pull string D with the other.
Then, whilst each person is looking at his card, which he is requested to do, the performer dexterously changes the place of the two sets, and he requests them to replace the cards in the set whence they took them.
Shep, as anotherperformer stepped into one of the rings and bowed.
The ringmaster glared at him and then cracked his whip once more, taking the young performer in the arm.
The duke himself sometimes took a second; the four married daughters warbled sweetly; but the great performer was Lady Corisande.
A certain phrase led to a song, which was sung with lightning rapidity, each performer making precisely the same gestures at precisely the same instant.
Mingled with this was the purring of distant machinery, the splashing of a temporary fountain, and the rhythmic jangling of a brass band, while in the piano exhibit a hired performer was playing upon a concert grand with a great flourish.
There was a conductor, who led off and regulated the time, and each performer took his part, coming in occasionally with a few bars so as to form a harmonious combination.
Each set is played by one performer with one or two drumsticks.
In his enthusiasm he overshot the mat, and had there not been a performer handy to catch him, the lad might have been seriously hurt.
Mothers don't like to have their boys join a circus; but, if they knew what a strict, wholesome life a circus performer has to lead, they would not be so set against the circus.
I want you out front and yet it would be almost a crime to take a performer like you out of the ring.
It would save you the expense of getting a new performer on, and would hold the job for the present man.
The performer first put a plate on the top of a trident and set it whirling.
This same performer set a bowl whirling on the end of a chop-stick.
The performer on this occasion exerted all his skill in burlesque horsemanship.
Nothing more may be intended than simply a performer in a morris dance.
Perhaps, after all, the brother was the more interesting performer of the two.
An elderly, hard-looking man, with a goatee beard and about as much appearance of sentiment as you would expect from a retired slaver, turned with a start and bade the performer stop that "damned thing.
