Usa "mountebank" in una frase

1. There is a natural tendency to cop out of this responsibility by being either overly serious (playing the mountebank) or not serious enough (playing the dilettante)

2. rickety stage, a mountebank held the attention of a growing

3. "No, for I am only embarked in certainties," replied Danglars, with the air of a mountebank

4. thought than to make a mountebank of her child!”

5. I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture-chamber in my house and of living like a mountebank, in a house with a false bottom!

6. Handel—and other curious Germans or Italians who sing in Gibberish no True-born Englishman can understand—and in Painting, they call for the Italian Rogues, spend Fortunes upon Forgeries of Nymphs and Dragons, or else pay Homage to a Mountebank like William Kent, who declares all Englishmen devoid of Craft and Art, paints Pretty Pictures in the Italian Mode, styles himself a noble Ancient Roman, and hath the Earl of Burlington to lick his Arse and settle his Bills for Port! By God, Fanny, I hate the Palladians worse e’en than the Italian Charlatans, for they spit upon our Native English Genius, whilst they tout the rankest Mediocrity in the Name of Noble Rome!”

7. He’s still in Gaol, I hear; an’ may well rot there fer all I care—the Mountebank! He was a Player and tried to make a Show with this here Horse, callin’ him ‘Pegasus the Wonder Horse’—but when he perform’d no Wonders, the Rabble ston’d him and his Master, too! An’ well they might

8. I have nothing to do with that unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, it is not my place

9. He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him

10. " He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of the mendicant on the highway:—

11. The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, mingled with the most ingenuous and charming smiles

12. " The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return

13. Since the revolution, everything, including the balletdancers, has had its trousers; a mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian

14. Much that was absurd, indeed, and humiliating, because it was like a mountebank performance—^yes, a regular show at a fair

15. ’ And you, you mountebank, what are you laughing at?” she cried, turning suddenly on Lebedeff’s nephew

16. The late hero, now turned mountebank, descended and helped out Felicia and Lydia, radiant in her white and gold attire—and it was only then I saw Drake, who had been sitting stiffly in the back of the cart