In those days, pundit would have more likely been a synonym for 'mountebank', a delicious word, which has disappeared from usage. From Wordnik.com. [Journalmalists and the Hemingway Panic] Reference
He spoke the word "mountebank" sneeringly, and John flushed. From Wordnik.com. [John of the Woods] Reference
Ivan, for it was he who started the "mountebank" bear, that came near mounting him on the moment of their meeting it. From Wordnik.com. [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference
He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine] Reference
"mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
One can then be any kind of mountebank or robber, and yet rest assured of the ladies 'homage. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Sins of Séverac Bablon] Reference
"mountebank" performance as they called it, -- had been everything to them that was sacred in its devout simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
Are at length from their mountebank eminence hurl'd. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832] Reference
"Have you far to go, Señors?" queried the mountebank. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
"Now, I have a better plan," continued the mountebank. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
The people were ready to tear the mountebank to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties] Reference
The mountebank made a mysterious sign with his left hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
He is indeed a kind of scholar-mountebank, and his art our delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Robertson is regarded by many as a sort of mountebank; yet such men as. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference
He was probably some travelling mountebank apeing the Spanish grandee. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
She was a mountebank, not a warrior, and had not chosen to come to Crete. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
A mountebank soldier with a wooden sword to sell that nobody chooses to buy. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
You would smile at my rhetoric and call me a mountebank, but I am succeeding. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
As I am an incorrigible mountebank, and Webb is one of the simplest of geniuses. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Thank goodness someone has at last lampooned this braying BBC/AGW-defending mountebank. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
He saw in them nothing but a sort of mountebank, who amuse the world in its idle moments. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864] Reference
It was the mountebank, Strong, but in his stylish clothing Don had failed to recognize him. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
"That man there," and Santiago pointed with his long bony finger at the mountebank, Strong. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
"Then we'll get rid of these bandits in short notice," declared the mountebank emphatically. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
B. Gough, without coming to the conclusion that he is nothing more than a theatrical mountebank. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
You must be mad to suppose I should really marry with a mountebank, a deformity, no matter what he has been born. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
Behind the slave follows the flute player, a mountebank, horribly twisted in some manner not visible in the twilight. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
"A very easy thing," said the mountebank, "if we had enough provisions to remain here for twenty-four hours, or more.". From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
The present moment ravished and trashed all former beings and, like a mountebank, sold its new products as the true goods. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
I know that mere politicians look on artists, with great contempt, judging them by some of those mountebank-types which are. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
Horace seemed not to absorb his undivided attention; a mountebank attempted several tricks, but failed to amuse his spectators. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
You have had a strange evening for a mountebank -- an evening filled with such events as to strain almost any amount of discretion. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
To be only this is nothing to his discredit; and to esteem him for being only this is not to pay respect to a worthless mountebank. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Its spirit evaporated in tavern harangues, to which the multitude went to listen, as to the chattering and grimaces of a mountebank. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Oh, this mountebank was merely seeking the blind girl from his troupe, who had been admitted, or possibly abducted, into the palace. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
In act ii.sc. 2, after Mosca and Volpone have erected a stage upon the stage, Volpone enters, disguised as a mountebank, and abuses those. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
Why, some think he's a spy, some guess he's a mountebank, some say one thing, some another: but, for my own part, I believe he's a Jesuit. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
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