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Definition of Equilibrists
1. equilibrist [n] - See also: equilibrist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equilibrists
Literary usage of Equilibrists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In the Land of the Lion and Sun, Or, Modern Persia: Or, Modern Persia by Charles James Wills (1891)
"The musicians, who played continuously, kept up a sort of loud chant the whole time.
The girls now showed some skill as equilibrists. ..."
2. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"equilibrists.—Many individuals have cultivated their senses so acutely that by the
... The Greeks had a particular passion for equilibrists, and called them ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1830)
"India is the native country of equilibrists ; and the accounts given by ...
The equilibrists are frequently also buffoons, jugglers( conjurers, &c. ..."
4. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"India is the native country of equilibrists; and the accounts given by travellers
... The equilibrists are frequently also buffoons, jugglers, conjurers, &. ..."
5. Around the world in eighty days, tr. by G.M. Towle by Jules Verne (1874)
"The performance was much like all acrobatic displays; but it must be confessed
that the Japanese are the first equilibrists in the world. ..."
6. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1902)
"... V Being powerless to hold the balance between these conflicting exigencies,
they will have nothing but expedients of equilibrists to fall back upon. ..."
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