Once, things came as far as a brief personal encounter between the showman and some lads, in which the former went down as readily as one of his own marionnettes to a peal of jeering laughter.
Let us not find fault with the showman who is only carrying on a popular business on too small a scale to be honest.
We have seen it so, for we remember a showman on one occasion not merely receiving little or no money, but getting lamentably pelted with mud, because, from some scruple or other, he refused to allow the victory over the Devil to Punch.
Once in view above the stage before the company, whilst waiting for an act to commence or for a figure to come up, he thumps his club down on the stage, throws it at the showman outside, dances, or sings a verse of a song.
General Booth is quite as much a showman as Barnum, but he is a pious showman.
But the pious showman cannot disown the responsibility for it.
Well, the Lord only knows how he will fare in the next world, but in this world the piousshowman has certainly gained a big success.
Whoever buys this tent to-day will be able to realize handsomely on his investment by selling this big-top tent in turn to some showman in need of a tent.
It was suspected that the wrecked showman was playing for sympathy.
The showman was much pleased, and in a few moments Nell had done the work very neatly, to his great delight.
The showman said to them in a hoarse voice: "Take Harlequin, bind him securely, and then throw him on the fire to burn.
The showman has sneezed and that is a sign that he pities you, and consequently you are saved.
Here there are no sirs," the showman answered severely.
Pinocchio was overjoyed and thanked the showman a thousand times.
Upon hearing himself called Excellence the showman began to smile and became at once kinder and more tractable.
As soon as the play was over the showman went into the kitchen, where a fine sheep, preparing for his supper, was turning slowly on the spit in front of the fire.
Still I am an old showman at heart, and look back with a melancholy pleasure to the days when I wandered about in gipsy fashion boothing and tenting.
My first appearance in public as a showman was at an entertainment in presence of the officers of the garrison at Tobago.
The monotonous explanations of the showman were not heard; the landscape spoke for itself.
After again informing the Showman that his Baby never cries, and is fondly attached to him, he takes the infant in his arms, whereupon she immediately sets up a continuous howl.
These embraced the following programme, each feat being announced by Mr. Showman with some extravagantly pompous title: Balancing chair on chin.
Punch now turns to theShowman and asks him if he has ever seen his Baby.
Illustration] At this point of his oration the showman paused, opened the door, and gave a loud whistle, when in scampered a creature more easily sketched than described.
Having indulged himself in this way for a few seconds, he pulls up suddenly, and looking over the edge of the screen at the showman outside, exclaims: Punch.
The Showmanupbraids Punch with his crime, but Punch defends himself by saying it served her right.
When our modest savings had been exhausted during one prolonged period of "resting," I remember being driven by sheer necessity to apply for an engagement at the booth of an old showman at Shepherd's Bush.
The showman explained the wonderful mechanism of this doll, unique of its kind, and capable of imitating the human voice to such a degree that no one could hear any difference.
It was an idle question, but you might be a showman of Milan.
No, master, I am a poor showman from Paris, asking only the opportunity to display my puppets before the great folk.
Don't you see that he never withdraws himself from the common life and the common consciousness, that he is all the while nothing but a photographer; a showman with a set of pictures.
I almost forgot to tell that the showman enlightened me on another trick of the prize-ring.
A strong man held her by the wool around her neck, while the experienced showman looked her over with a critical eye.
Taking an especially sharp pair of shears, the showman tried their edge on his thumb in quite the old shepherd manner that I could remember from earlier days, and looked over the unkempt mass of wool before him with a critical eye.
Anyway theshowman took these instruments and started at Mary Belle's fleece.
When an experienced showman came to do the clipping, I naturally stuck around to see what would happen.
The showmanwas really a sheep sculptor, and he was going to snip and clip a prize-winning lamb out of the mass of wool before him.
I am like the showman in the 'Cries of London'--I pull the strings, and the children peep.
He was a popular churchwarden: probably he had about him so much of the showman that he was genial, and mannerly, and courteous--these are the elementary virtues of the profession.
Next evening I sauntered down to where the showman had his pitch, and directly he had got his table set up I marched in, and soon won another watch.
Sally ran to the showman and seized both his hands in hers.
Besides, the barker seemed to like him, or at least to like immensely the bill which invariably passed hands when the showman and the glorified "rube" met.
At one of the booths where wild beasts were exhibited to the wondering crowd, was a very large bear, which the showman assured them was "cotched" in the undiscovered deserts of the remotest Russia.
Subsequently the showman relieved his mind to a casual acquaintance.
But if the Doctor suppressed the clinic, neither he nor the showman suffered.
The Jackdaw's sad eye became attracted by a splendid scarf-pin that the showman wore--a gold pin set with a tiny emerald that burned like fire.
And now the showman began holding up a small glass bottle for the crowd to stare into.
One day there was a great crowd round the travelling booth where he was on view: the showman had a new wonder which he was about to show to the people.
The showman was so proud he grew red in the face, and ran shouting up and down the plank, shaking and turning the bottle upside down now and then, so as to make the cabined fairy use her wings, and buzz like a fly against the glass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "showman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: auteur; daredevil; director; impresario; producer; prompter; ringmaster; showman; spieler; usher
