Then we came down in an orchard, and when my feet had touched the ground I fetched up the balloon by a couple of turns of the trapeze around an apple tree.
I shouted, swinging down from thetrapeze by my hands in order to make a landing on my feet.
She took a long breath and nerved herself for the start, before making her spring to the trapeze below; she must have courage for the sake of the little Jeanne, she said to herself.
Jules had never seen a woman perform alone on the trapeze before, and this exhibition of skill and resource fascinated him.
She practised a little in the morning at home, she said, to keep her muscles limber; she had done the same things on the trapeze so often that they had become easy to her.
From trapeze to trapezeshe shot with delight; she had never felt so sure of herself, so exultant.
Then she began to swing gently, and a moment later she shot through the air to another trapeze several feet away, and from that she passed on to the others with a bewildering swiftness.
He wouldn't have been killed if the trapeze hadn't broken.
In a round of applause, Blanche finished her performance on the trapeze and then began her posing on the rope, whirling slowly, with a rhythmic succession of motions to the net.
Before Jeanne was born I never had the least thought of fear, even after father was killed, because I knew that was because the trapeze was weak.
I wonder if this can be the one: 'On Monday evening next, Mademoiselle Blanche, the celebrated French acrobat, will give her remarkable performance on the trapezeand her great dive from the top of the Hippodrome.
He wondered what her performance was like, and he waited impatiently for Blanche to finish her act on the trapeze and the rope.
No, with the other work--on the trapeze and the rope.
Blanche signed a new contract, by which she agreed to perform for several weeks longer on the trapeze and on the rope at half the salary she had been receiving.
He actually knew this wonderful creature in white tights who darted fromtrapeze to trapeze, who posed like a marble statue on the rope, who shot through the air like a thunderbolt!
The little girls found the trapeze artist a most delightful companion; but Barnabetta had scarcely a word to say to either of the older Corner House sisters.
I don't see what help you can be for the like of us," said the trapeze performer ungraciously.
The little girls, who had not seen Barnabetta arrive in her boy's apparel, were taken with the trapeze artist at once.
He can't do anything to you now," declared the trapeze performer.
She knew the girl trapezeperformer was trying to lead her astray.
She whirled and spoke hotly to the trapeze performer: "I tell you the truth.
If Ruth had had any doubts about the trapeze artist and her father, she was at once disarmed when Barnabetta came down to dinner.
Agnes listened with delight to this fantasy from the trapeze performer.
You do the joey, as I said, and climb almost up to the trapeze on the rope, and then make a fall.
After the leaping from trapeze to trapeze in mid-air, after the walking the tight rope, and the facing wild beasts in their cages, and other feats of daring, the clowns come tumbling into the arena.
Music does not consist of a high-flying circus trapeze performance in acoustics.
Do you think the living God is to be worshiped by a high-flying, pyrotechnic, trapeze performance in acoustics?
It used to be so delightful a diversion watching our acrobat and his group with their strong and graceful bodies writhing with rhythmical certitude over a bar or upon a trapeze against a happily colored space.
Many a later performer on the Flying Trapezelet us see that the feats he is attempting are so difficult that they cannot be accomplished without obvious effort.
The trapeze has a name of Greek origin, and it was possibly known to the Greeks.
It extends its hospitality to the acrobat, single or in groups, throwing flipflaps on the stage, flying thru the air on a trapeze or diving into the water in a tank.
One day Leotard asked me to swing a trapeze for him, and he sprang off and caught it with a single hand, and then as the second trapeze returned he twisted and grasped the first trapeze again with one hand.
The Flying Trapeze is the ultimate achievement of acrobatic art, and it demands the utmost combination of skilful strength and of easy grace.
The stage was littered with trunks and scenery, trapeze bars, animal cages and the what-not of a vaudeville show.
I think I like that next best to the trapeze people.
Trapeze performers are a very careful lot, and we seldom have an accident.
Fascinated, they all watched the bare-back riding, and after that the acrobats, and then the trapeze performers.
I'm one of the trapeze performers; you probably saw me swing this afternoon.
Now thetrapeze number is over," said Kitty, looking at her programme, "and next will be the wild animals!
They half starved me and beat me, and wanted me to go up on the trapeze after I had had a spell of sickness.
Casso's United Railroad Shows was quite an affair, and the performance was given in two rings at a time, as well as upon a trapeze in the air between the tent poles.
Why, there was a report it was the fault of four rascals who used to work for the circus---three men who were discharged for getting drunk, and a boy who did stunts on the trapeze and ran away.
On other evenings, she used to be quite alone, with black pearls in the lobes of her small ears, that were like pink shells, and got up and left her box as soon as he had finished his performance on the trapeze .
He knew that her heart was affected, and she had told him once that she would never attempt to go on the tight-rope ortrapeze because the mere thought of a height always terrified her.
It's lucky there happens to be a new turn with those trapeze people.
But I had a idea I might make it for what with two generations on the center trapeze and never a drop of liquor and not to mention what I done in pictures, I think quicker than some and act the same.
Still, since hertrapeze days Ma has always felt that emergencies do happen.
While Masie and me has been friends ever since I can remember, her mother having been Lady Lion Tamer in the same circus with Ma and Pa's trapeze act, as she uttered them words, I commenced feeling a little coolness toward her.
I was the same when your pa missed both the third trapeze and the life net.
Ma, having lived through two circuses and a trapeze act, it is sort of hard to surprise her very much--do you get me?
But Madame Estelle had to stay with her husband when he fell offen the trapeze and they so devoted!
David recalled the muscular bare arms he had seen during the trapeze act, and wondered how so slight a person as she now seemed to be could be so powerfully developed.
Best trapeze worker in the business, if I do say it myself.
On this point there have been endless arguments, and many persons have contended that acrobats must imagine all this, since the upward or downward slope of the ground under a trapeze can in no way affect the movement of that trapeze.
This boy possessed the two great requisites in a trapeze performer, absolute fearlessness and a longing to perform in the air--which longing made him willing to take endless pains in learning.
There is no doubt that trapezeperformers are obliged to take serious account of the ground's slope in their daily work, to note carefully the amount of slope and the direction of slope, and to take their precautions accordingly.
Again, in case of a runaway, a man familiar with the trapeze knows how and when to spring for the bridle of a plunging horse.
He went on to point out some plain advantages, in addition to health, that ordinary citizens might derive from a moderate knowledge of trapeze work.
In illustration of this let me present three of my circus friends, Weitzel and Zorella and Danny Ryan, trapeze professionals whose daring and skill are justly celebrated.
Once he went at a difficult feat so eagerly--he was always his own teacher--that he fell clean off a trapeze sixty feet above ground, and by some kind providence that watches over boys escaped serious injury.
In other words, although bars andtrapeze may rest on supports that are perfectly level, yet the swing of an acrobat's body will be accelerated over a downward slope or retarded over an upward slope.
It appears that the movements of a performer on the bars or trapeze are affected in a marked degree by the slope of the ground underneath.
And I can recall sad things, the case of that poor trapeze girl, two weeks a widow, who nevertheless went through her act twice a day and tripped away kissing her hands to the crowd while her heart was breaking.
Then he told us how at seventeen he was traveling with a ten-cent show, doing a single trapeze act in the ring and an out-of-door free exhibition of tight-rope walking from canvas top to ground.
I think it would have been quite enough for her to do the trapeze acts so perfectly; but her being so pretty certainly added a poignancy to the contemplation of her perils.
He was good to the poor supes, and instructed them, not at all sneeringly, how best to manage the guy ropes for the nets when the trapeze events began.
Bunny and Sue showed Ben the mow, and the pile of hay, into which the trapeze performers were to fall, instead of into nets.
You must learn to jump from the trapeze into the soft hay.
For Bunny, Ned and Tom landed safely on a big pile of hay, having jumped into the mow when they let go of the trapeze bars.
Then the piece of broom handle was tied on the two lower ends of the ropes, and the trapeze was finished.
Some of the boys were quite strong, and they could do tricks on the trapeze that Bunny and his little friends did not dare try.
Bunker and I will practise some trapeze acts for your show.
I could hang by a trapeze if I wanted to," Bunny had said to Sue.
Now I'll do my trapeze act," and he climbed up to the bar that hung by the long ropes from the beam in the barn.
Oh, I can make a trapeze from the clothes-line and a broom handle.
Bunny swung on thetrapeze some more, and dropped into the soft hay.
I must fasten the rope to the beam, and then we'll fix the trapeze so Bunny can do some circus acts on it.
There were several boys who did fancy tricks on thetrapeze bars.
Most of the audience had seen Minnie that afternoon in the tent-show, her slender girlish form clad in spangled gauze, her delicate blonde prettiness enhanced by the attire, doing her trapeze act.
Minnie's trapeze acts were truly fine, and were appreciated at their full value; and the beautiful little figure walking the wire twenty feet above the ground was greeted with unlimited enthusiasm.
Of course nobody present with the exception of my mother, sister and myself had ever seen a circus performance before, and Her Majesty was very much afraid that the man would fall from the trapeze and kill himself.
I knew a man once who was a trapeze performer in a circus and he was training his son in the same lofty profession.
A trapeze had been recently put up, and Juliet was learning to swing by her feet.
Go up into the attic and work on the trapeze for an hour or two, and you'll feel better.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trapeze" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dumbbell; figure; horse; triangle; weight
