It was my circus which gave its first performance here yesterday as announced on the placards posted on the walls throughout the village.
Oliver had hurried away immediately in order to make sure that Mabel should hear the news from him, and now she was out, and at any moment the placards might tell her of what had been done.
The huge electric placards over London had winked out the facts in Esperanto as Oliver stepped into the train at twilight.
Placards were exhibited in every part of the house, principally from the pit; of the quality of which effusions the following may be taken as specimens: "Notice to the Public.
So, in the excitement following the arrest and exile of Beda and other impertinent and seditious preachers, placards succeeded each other nightly.
Sidenote: The placards of 1534 mark an epoch in the history of the Huguenots.
The flames of the persecution kindled by the publication of the placards continued to burn.
The free tone of theplacards seemed to reveal a contemptuous disregard of dignities.
Busy informers at one time found evidence, more than warranting the suspicion that Roussel's manuscripts had furnished the material of which scandalous placards defamatory of the Pope were framed.
The punishment of the persons who had taken part in the preparation and dissemination of the placards was deemed an insufficient atonement for a crime in the guilt of which they had involved the city, and, indeed, the whole kingdom.
Blankenberghe was already very full, and when he got back he saw the famous placards everywhere.
Inflammatory placards denouncing foreigners, and holding them up to the odium of the populace, were extensively posted about the city and suburbs in the summer of 1856.
An immense number of fire-rafts in preparation to burn the fleet could not be concealed, while placards of a most menacing character were posted about the city walls.
Moreover the Red Placards of von Bissing were of increasing frequency.
Vivie sighed a little over the Blue Placards which announced endless German victories by land and sea; and she gasped over the dreadful Red Placards with their lists of victims sentenced to death by the military courts.
But then the arrival of the impresario king has been preceded for some months by immense descriptive placards posted in the localities through which his troupe would pass.
At last some fine morning the passers by would see on the placards the announcement of a gala performance.
This artist can be described in the placardseither as the india-rubber man or the serpent man.
Enormous placards on every wall announced the arrival of a grand circus consisting of fifty horses and one hundred and fifty artists.
The walls of New York were [p020] then immediately covered with placards depicting a negro playing the violin, but without any descriptive words attached to the picture.
Why, her party is called the Royalist Party already, and only a week before you came the Liberals plastered the city with denunciatory placards against her, calling on the people to drive her out of the country.
Alice says they put up placards about him all over the city last night.
The morning after the duel, on the corners of all the principal streets, placards were pasted, which were soon surrounded by crowds of men, exhibiting astonishment and indignation.
Wherever he turned his eyes, gigantic placards glared at him, gigantic letters, gigantic, garishly coloured pictures, gigantic fingers and hands pointing to something.
The hearse with the placards is succeeded by a coach bearing on the roof a windmill, an allusion to Dingley’s too famous saw-mills at Limehouse, which were dismantled by the sawyers out of work and other rioters.
Over their heads, like agitated bits of flotsam, pennants fluttered and placards rose and dipped.
At the same time other troopers rode in many directions along the highways and byways of Lutha, tacking placards upon trees and fence posts and beside the doors of every little rural post office.
Both were bearded men with gray eyes--either might have passed for the king by the description upon the placards that have covered Lutha for the past month.
He stopped here and there, and, dismounting, tackedplacards in conspicuous places.
Pasted against the walls of public edifices were the most recent placards and counter-placards of the States-General and the States of Utrecht on the great subject of religious schisms and popular tumults.
And, in order that none might come but the most learned and curious, I put in my placards that none should have admission without payment of a dollar.
Also, I put in my placards that if the things therein promised did not prove trustworthy, I would restore the quadruple.
I shall carry with me placards in all languages, paste them everywhere, in villages, on doors of churches, all the best spots I can find in provincial towns!
Two thousand placards were pasted in three days on the most conspicuous spots in all Paris.
For the first time he was roused to notice enormous scarlet placards on all the walls, and his eyes encountered the words "Cephalic Oil.
At that time placards and pamphlets rendered the services now demanded of the journals.
By means of the placards the King could speak directly to the people and take them to witness that he was in difficulty, and that he was trying to do his best.
Not for gold would he have gone behind these placards to the organs themselves; he preferred to gather from the placards alone what wonders of yesterday the excellent staid Telegraph had unaccountably missed.
At first it reminded him of the club, with the addition of an enormous placard giving the day of the month as a mystical number--14--and other placards displaying solitary letters of the alphabet.
It became at once obvious, from the tone of the evening placards and the contents of evening papers, and the remarks in crowded suburban trains, that for the public the trial had resolved itself into an affair of moles.
These and similar placardsflew in the Strand breezes.
This legend got itself on to the telegraph wires and the placards within a few minutes of Priam's taking the oath.
On the placards in the Strand: "Severe cross-examination of Leek.
Mysterious placards appeared on the walls, calling for fulfilment of the Hatt of 1877.
There is a cry for reform in the system of government in Turkey, and revolutionary placards are posted up almost daily in the streets of Stamboul.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "placards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
