It only went to show what a raree-show they were running here. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
They sell the memories of their famous heroes, of their philosophers and poets, by making a raree-show of their tombs. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The raree-show on the patio was entertaining as always, but to Cassidy the important thing was that he was near the ocean and there was a pleasant breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Again to Carthage] Reference
From this raree-show Father Higgins had gone home feeling that he had witnessed something about as unearthly as he was likely to be confronted with in the next world. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
Then of course we had that incredible raree-show put on by Nixon and his various well-wishers, and the thing that surprised me the most was how shocked the silent majority was that the wheels had come off. From Wordnik.com. [Again to Carthage] Reference
The boys will care for this raree-show more than thou or. From Wordnik.com. [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference
The boys will care for this raree-show more than thou or I. From Wordnik.com. [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference
It is a perfect instance of a mental mania, a private raree-show of humiliation and despair.'. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
They could not believe that people would make a raree-show of the English envoy except for sufficient reason. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
He hides his name, lest he become spectacular, a raree-show, for mobs to follow and shout hoarse about; but he is here. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference
I stand, as it were, before the raree-show: I see the little puppets move, and I ask whether it is not an optical illusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Sorrows of Young Werther] Reference
And at last she felt real grief at thus becoming "the raree-show," as she ended by calling herself with a sad, suffering smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5] Reference
Carlyle says he is a showman whom one gives a shilling to once a month to see his raree-show, and then sends him about his business. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference
For you know, Harriet, that among us modern fine people, the company, and not the entertainment, is the principal part of the raree-show. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)] Reference
I produc'd a handful of silver, and spread it before them, which was a kind of raree-show they had not been us'd to, paper being the money of Boston. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1994 Edition)] Reference
A frivolous raree-show performance, which but for the splendour of its tfceneiy, and the sprightliness of a. £smale performer, would have met with early condemnation. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:] Reference
Persons of any elevation or generosity of mind never have this species of pride; but it is your mean, second-rate folk, who imagine that people of talent are a sort of raree-show for their entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference
“Poh! poh! doctor,” said Daly, a little irritated, “I wish you would discontinue that roaring bellowing noise; see all eyes are upon you, no doubt wondering if there be not a raree-show among us.”. From Wordnik.com. [Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund] Reference
"I wish I could see these things in the same calm unprejudiced light," said I; "but I find it a bitter mortification, after so many years of hard labour, to be without a penny to pay for seeing a raree-show.". From Wordnik.com. [The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I] Reference
Do you thus make a raree-show of the palace of your forefathers, and require every man who enters it for the purpose of enlightening his benighted understanding to pay your imperial lackeys the sum of three bits?. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
He is not here on stilts or in buckram; but smiles in his easy chair, as he moralises through the loopholes of retreat, on the bustle and raree-show of the world, or on "those reverend bedlams, colleges and schools!". From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
But I was very much astonished at the manner in which the Moors were treated, for they were seated on couches, on one side of the state under which Her Majesty sat, as if they were some kind of raree-show, set there to be looked at. From Wordnik.com. [Oddsfish!] Reference
They advanced against it all sorts of objections which would have been quite appropriate if the public had been bidden to witness some colossal farce or burlesque; some raree-show of tasteless oddities, or some untimely pantomime of fairy-lore. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
"Bet er a meal an a raree-show, an she picked this. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Valor]
"I can turn it into a kinda raree-show trick, y'ken?. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
I'm not going to make a raree-show of myself to please them. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First] Reference
Congreve had a proper and manly pride, to my judgment, when he expressed a dislike to be visited merely as a raree-show. ". From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
They had but to look at him to conclude the contrary -- the creature was, from his age, fitter for the grave than a conspiracy -- and by his size and appearance, for the inside of a raree-show, than the mysteries of a plot. ". From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
They had but to look at him to conclude the contrary — the creature was, from his age, fitter for the grave than a conspiracy — and by his size and appearance, for the inside of a raree-show, than the mysteries of a plot.”. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
I open my raree-show with. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
A light upon some raree-show. From Wordnik.com. [Words] Reference
Or laughing at some raree-show. From Wordnik.com. [Sylvie and Bruno] Reference
Made for a gaping crowd a raree-show. From Wordnik.com. [At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe] Reference
Bayes sends this raree-show to public view. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference
Pulling the strings of his boxed raree-show. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRELUDE BOOK EIGHTH] Reference
A raree-show is here. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRELUDE BOOK SEVENTH] Reference
A raree-show, and Mahomet sells mussels. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference
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