Usage examples (12)

• When the equilibrist Madame Phom returned to Fan Nan Nan, she did not find Dickie Goldwire at home.
• Nor do I see my way clear in providing for the steeple-climber, the equilibrist, the railroad president, or the tea-taster.
• Naturally a good equilibrist, the girl took easily to the motor-cycle, and even when Joe went at top speed on some smooth road she liked it.
• Another, an equilibrist, showed her how, when he was obliged to stay in bed with a broken leg and had nobody to wait on him, he used to wait on himself by going round...