You may be certain of it, the jongleur is your man. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
A jongleur was a singer who was not a poet, though he might make songs. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
The jongleur is here!. From Wordnik.com. [Dario Fo - The Birth of the Jongleur] Reference
And plainly no mere jongleur, but a genuine troubadour. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Thief]
Well, let him play at the trade of jongleur for a while. From Wordnik.com. [For Love of Mother-Not]
I fancy he was the first to hit on it that it was the jongleur we wanted. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
'And you are all sure,' said Cadfael, 'that the jongleur must be the guilty man?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
"Lorenzo Smythe," I said modestly, "jongleur and artist-care of The Lambs Club.". From Wordnik.com. [Double Star]
When we have heard him a-singing like a foolish jongleur this past hour and more?. From Wordnik.com. [The Chrome Borne]
The king is unable to draw from the jongleur any answer to any purpose: What is his name?. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
But a poor vagrant jongleur trying his unpromising luck in the town, that they might consider. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
He sometimes wondered if he should be a jongleur like his father, or an outlaw like his mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Like a jongleur producing an apple from his sleeve, he waved the severed tongue at the crowd, then threw it. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
I was not born a jongleur; I didn't suddenly turn up as I am now, with a sudden gust from the skies and, hopla, there. From Wordnik.com. [Dario Fo - The Birth of the Jongleur] Reference
West African jongleur Gabin Dabiré is from Burkina Faso, which is bounded by the Sahara Desert and coastal rain forest. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-Seven] Reference
Rojer, on the other hand, is an apprentice jongleur who struggles to make a living for himself and his fallen-from-grace drunken master. From Wordnik.com. [Peter V. Brett - The Painted Man / The Warded Man (Book Review)] Reference
I have played the jongleur and the harlequin so strongly that it seemed that I could do nothing more beyond what had already been achieved. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference
Périgourdin poet, who was perhaps a jongleur or a troubadour. From Wordnik.com. [Two Summers in Guyenne] Reference
The traveling minstrel was in France a jongleur (Provencal jogleur). From Wordnik.com. [Song and Legend from the Middle Ages] Reference
The jongleur was not noble by birth, but was ennobled by his bravery. From Wordnik.com. [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference
If this jongleur had lied, Bracciolini meant to kill him for his insolence. From Wordnik.com. [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference
The troubadour, minstrel and jongleur or joglar, were not the same in dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
Silent he stood before her, still as an effigy, while meltingly the jongleur sang. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
So, though I still welcome jongleur and minstrel, I bid them sing their newest conceits. From Wordnik.com. [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference
And is not all this what every dissour and jongleur tells us of in his stories of Merlin?. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
The distinction between trouvere or troubadour and jongleur is not always to be sharply drawn. From Wordnik.com. [Song and Legend from the Middle Ages] Reference
` ` Now this passes imagination! '' she said; ` ` no jongleur can show so deft a transmutation!. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
Silent he stood before her for an obvious interval, still as an effigy, while meltingly the jongleur sang. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Instead he went away from her smilingly, treading through the hall with many affable salutations, while the jongleur sang. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Instead he went from her smilingly, treading through the hall with many affable salutations, while always the jongleur sang. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Wherever the wandering jongleur appeared he was sure of a delighted audience for his songs and stories, both serious and light. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the History of Western Europe] Reference
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