When the equilibrist Madame Phom returned to Fan Nan Nan, she did not find Dickie Goldwire at home. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Incognito]
Nor do I see my way clear in providing for the steeple-climber, the equilibrist, the railroad president, or the tea-taster. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank] Reference
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 the room on his hands ... like that. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Above, on one side, is an equilibrist swinging on a slack rope; and on the other, a man flying from the tower to the ground, by means of a groove fastened to his breast, slipping over a line strained from one place to the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
For the unusual cold and the night work together had betrayed him into potations even beyond his wont, the slippery pavements had proven very baffling to his dignified tread -- and the snowy signet upon the back of his topcoat spoke to a delighted office all too plainly that at last the alcoholic equilibrist par excellence had fallen. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
He was laboring over a gigantic treadmill, balancing like an equilibrist upon a revolving sphere. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow's End] Reference
The steward brought me my coffee, and, wedged by boxes and pillows, like an equilibrist, I sat up and drank it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
At that time I was a contortionist and they called me the Snake-Man; then I became an equilibrist and adopted the name of. From Wordnik.com. [The Quest] Reference
Topham, who used no ruse in his feats and was not the skilful equilibrist that the German Samson was, his performances being merely the results of abnormal physical force. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
In the ruins of Herculaneum there is still visible a picture representing an equilibrist executing several different exercises, especially one in which he dances on a rope to the tune of a double flute, played by himself. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
A little later Désaguliers studied an individual in London named Thomas Topham, who used no ruse in his feats and was not the skilful equilibrist that the German Samson was, his performances being merely the results of abnormal physical force. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
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