A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. From LearnThat.org. [Austin O'Malley]
Forensic investigators have been pouring over the parched ground of this so-called barker ranch. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008] Reference
Edwards, who had a remarkably resonant voice, to act as a "barker" for us. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
And now, gents "-- the old spirit of the" barker "entered into him --" you are about to behold. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
She guessed the barker was the leader. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Wilds]
A loud-voiced "barker" rode, warning all people to look out for their horses: "The elephant is coming!". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose in the Ring] Reference
"barker" in the pit also characterized it this way - understandable, since that's exactly what it looked like. From Wordnik.com. [US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference
Remember that Cramer is more than a carnival barker. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Rosenbaum: Cramer: No Longer "God"] Reference
Any one would think you were the barker at a sideshow. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize] Reference
First, you have to be a barker to get your revenues up. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Jobs: A Fairbanks Carnival] Reference
This happened in the town of barker in Upstate, New York. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2008] Reference
When will the voices of decency be heard again? stan barker. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He obeyed slowly, pursing his lips and staring at the barker. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond the Sunrise]
Why, he's another Labes, a great barker and a licker of dishes. From Wordnik.com. [The Wasps] Reference
Why, 'tis a second Labes, a great barker and a licker of dishes. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Morrisey is a carnival barker, who just happens to have a heart of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Morrissey: 'Leader of the Tormentors'] Reference
This is heady stuff for a PT Barnum, carnival barker, talk show huckster. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Want to Promote Glenn Beck? Keep Bashing Him] Reference
He leered and winked at the camera like a sideshow barker for the universe. From Wordnik.com. ['Star Gazer' Popularized the Night Sky] Reference
The barker donned a scuffed bowler hat that perched rakishly aside his head. From Wordnik.com. [Political Unity in the Big Tent] Reference
WAIT! barker made me the most fantastic glasses - with etched PEGASAI on them. From Wordnik.com. [withkerth Diary Entry] Reference
Billy has the carnival-barker spirit that once gave the city brass, if not class. From Wordnik.com. [Decline and the Falls] Reference
Clinton was a sleazebag sideshow carnival barker and a lech and a good politician. From Wordnik.com. [Maureen Dowd Devotes Whole Column To Edwards' Hair] Reference
A barker who is no longer to bark, well, what is world (ph) without this world (ph)?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2004] Reference
Instead, he settled for being merely the barker at a traveling carnival, now long gone. From Wordnik.com. [A Flowering of Experiment] Reference
A former carny barker and lifelong disciple of the dollar, Parker found a home-where else?. From Wordnik.com. [Farewell] Reference
The bottom line: Has the media turned circus barker, trying to sell us on a phantom recovery?. From Wordnik.com. [Recovery? Run For Cover!] Reference
He was announcing the debate in real time - reading twitter comments like a side show barker. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Rosenbaum: The Debate Conversation -- Twitter Style] Reference
I voted for Baldy's Blog myself, and recommend that everyone at least looks at it. stan barker. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
"We've got books today," he repeats over and over like an old-time carnival barker to all who pass. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Veteran Bookseller] Reference
“He was like a circus barker, cooking up meatballs or ribs or chicken pieces,” Mr. Rellstab says. From Wordnik.com. [A Former Sales Rep Concocts Fresh Start With Barbecue Sauce] Reference
But that does not mean that they don't hear the barker calling: You can start over, you can do better. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Confidence in Marriage] Reference
Over the last five years, Mikhail Gorbachev has become the carnival barker of communist economic reform. From Wordnik.com. [Why Gorbachev Is A Sideshow] Reference
The show had apparently begun, as there was no one — not even the barker — in front of the stage. From Wordnik.com. [A Day at the Fair] Reference
Nor was she a barker, though her outbursts — if you could call them that — were more of that nature. From Wordnik.com. [Robert hires a lawyer] Reference
Mr. Goldin has fast become a sort of gatekeeper – slash – carnival barker for the man of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Ford Takes Buffalo] Reference
All it lacked was a "barker" calling out "Roll up, roll up, ten years of growth under a Labour Goverment. From Wordnik.com. [Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Mad Money's mixture of bells & whistles and inside tips and carnival barker intensity is either entertaining. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Tyndall: CNBC's Shoutfests: Not Show Business but Serious Business] Reference
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