No feast at any court in those days was complete without this diversion of recitation, when the nation's heroes, or some passage from its greater classics, furnished the theme; or when some improvisator wove a tissue of myth and legend, embroidered with fact, which won its way through confiding ages as historic truth, till the time, growing sophisticated, laid it heroically aside for a curio.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference

Beronicius, the Greek and Latin improvisator, who knew by heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference

Syrus was not a literary man, but an improvisator and moralist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

Johnnie had the tongue of the improvisator, and he loved a listener.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiverton Tales] Reference

In French, they call such a person by a very long name -- the improvisator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Fairy Tales] Reference

Being a fantastic, nervous improvisator he is more exposed to radical mistakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Impressionists (1860-1900)] Reference

Then he began his story with all the earnestness and tragic power of an improvisator of ancient Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon] Reference

The improvisator was given a theme of which he knew nothing, and on which he discoursed, often brilliantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference

After reading the whole letter one may hint that Guilbert's own ideas might not serve her very well if she tried to appear as improvisator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference

Danish improvisator, the lover of little children, the gentle Caliban who dwells among fairies and holds sweet converse with fishes, and frogs, and beetles!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Thor] Reference

Of other sermons, -- and good sermons, -- printed and published, many have had an influence almost as restricted and as evanescent as the utterances of the pulpit improvisator.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Christianity] Reference

Of other sermons, — and good sermons, — printed and published, many have had an influence almost as restricted and as evanescent as the utterances of the pulpit improvisator.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Christianity] Reference

Bonaparte understood the art of holding his audience in suspense, and keeping them in breathless attention, quite as well as an improvisator of the Place of St. Mark or of Toledo St.eet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon] Reference

The style of the one is that of an admirable improvisator, a brilliant and incessant converser; that of the other is at its best a miracle of studied invention, a harmony of colour and of sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

At this the great improvisator scratched his head, looked at the ceiling and then at the floor, after which he took several rapid strides up and down the room, and struck himself repeatedly on the forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Thor] Reference

Our father, our grandfather were extemporary composers who were heard with pleasure in all the festivals of the Basque country, and our mother also was the daughter of a grand improvisator of the village of Lesaca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ramuntcho] Reference

His extraordinary talent was nearly allied to improvisation, and it required but a little more indulgence of his feeling and fancy to have made him not only an improvisator, but the most remarkable one that ever lived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference

Can no inventor make something to do this -- something to lie in the palm and bring all colours and divisions of colour ready made to the finger tips so that you might put them down in a revelry of colour as unconsciously and freely as the improvisator can use the notes on the piano to express his feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference

The great improvisator dashed recklessly into every thing that he thought would be interesting to an American traveler, but with the difficulty of his utterance in English, and the absence of any knowledge on his part of my name or history, it was evident he was a little embarrassed in what way to oblige me most; and the trouble on my side was, that I was too busy listening to find time for talking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Thor] Reference

The priests of that country, called Shamanes, are a kind of improvisators; they wear, over their tunick of bark, a sort of steel net, to which some pieces of iron are attached, the noise of which is very great when the improvisator is agitated; he has moments of inspiration which a good deal resemble nervous attacks, and it is rather by sorcery, than talent, that he makes an impression on the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.] Reference

I-- I was going out to lunch with a man, and -- and -- "Eustace was not a ready improvisator --" and she didn't want me to go, so she stole all my trousers! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl on the Boat] Reference

Thou punning improvisator in print?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age Reviewed] Reference