Lexicographical Neighbors of Trapezists
Literary usage of Trapezists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Watch Yourself Go by by Alfred Griffith Field (1912)
"(This pantomime introduction they had copied from Mathews and Hunting, noted
trapezists in those days.) However, the same salutes have been employed by all ..."
2. Literature and life: Studies by William Dean Howells (1902)
"... and pay a doctor, and lose her salary, but it didn't take away my interest in
the other trapezists flying through the air above another net. ..."
3. Short Story Classics (American) by William Henry Harrison Murray, Robert Grant, Virginia Tracy, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Robert William Chambers, George Ade, John Habberton, Hallie Erminie Rives, Charles Heber Clark, William Patten, Maragaret Wade Campbell Deland (1905)
"The musical part of the performance is beneath contempt, I understand, and the
real attraction is the exhibition of these mountebanks of trapezists, ..."
4. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"... and the real attraction is the exhibition of these mountebanks of trapezists;
which will be simply disgusting ..."
5. The Drama of Yesterday & To-day by Clement Scott (1899)
"Tumblers, yes; trapezists, yes; comic singers, blatant and strident, with a
certain dogged power but no humour—yes, of course ! But when sensible, gifted, ..."
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