And felt a shadow cross the harlequinade the harlequinade of his time.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Pregnant Widow'] Reference

The dull drama of Reform turned into a joyous harlequinade, we had escaped the Fabian.    From Wordnik.com.  [G.K.C. - Distributist] Reference

They vanished below, leaving the room blank, like a stage after a harlequinade, and the old man laughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger in the Smoke]

Mrs Michael Gunn, ballets by Jessie Noir, harlequinade by Thomas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Only to think what harlequinade tricks fate sometimes plays one!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Princess, a Christmas production preluding to the immemorial harlequinade.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Small Boy and Others] Reference

For after a harlequinade, what can stand between a child and happy dreams?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference

His amiability was an imposture, a dangerous harlequinade; the man was bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comedy of Masks A Novel] Reference

At the end of the harlequinade he sank down on one knee and kissed her hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

It was a famous harlequinade; and, as usual, it concluded the entertainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference

It is the sort of thing he could write and ought to write: a religious harlequinade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

"Perhaps it is easy to be at home -- in harlequinade -- though you may not quite like it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince Fortunatus] Reference

Instantly, with the precision of a harlequinade, a stream of giggling girls poured from Eyre Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights in London] Reference

What they most admire in a pantomime is the oldest part of it, the only true pantomime -- the harlequinade!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Feast of St. Friend] Reference

The youngster who is engaged at the theatre can set off home at the very latest as soon as the harlequinade is over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Side Lights] Reference

She chuckled aloud, not that she relished her mirth, but the harlequinade of fate constrained a laugh for its antics.    From Wordnik.com.  ['way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895] Reference

In modern pantomime it may be said that the opening is everything, and that the harlequinade is deferred as long as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference

The similes are hyperbolic; the names are grotesque; the incidents partake of harlequinade, and the speeches of roaring farce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference

You train your boy for a swindler after your own pattern; you twirl him in your curst harlequinade to a damnation as sure as your own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

The paper parcel borne to the theatre by the clown under mention enclosed the bread-and-butter that was to figure in the harlequinade.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference

This poem, with the exceptions of some episodes of noble poetry, is, as well as the three others, a very harlequinade of the intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference

With the harlequinade in which he was losing his life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince Fortunatus] Reference

S complicity in the night's harlequinade, and raising his eyes just sufficiently to observe that Jopp's face was lined with anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

Music "-- strictly speaking, for the harlequinade -- (January 4th, 1845), designed to show the fatuous idiotcy of those compositions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

Current Mood: harlequinade.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference

Like a serious harlequinade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowers for the Judge]

It's all damned harlequinade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

Young people must be at some harlequinade. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

Nothing better, they tell me, than harlequinade!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II] Reference

As in harlequinade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Precipitations] Reference

8On the harlequinade, see Mayer. close window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes, "Theatrical Forms, Ideological Conflicts, and the Staging of Obi", Obi] Reference