In the more open spaces jugglers and mountebanks, usually accompanied by performing animals, went through all sorts of gambols and antics.
Lewis Spence
The projects granted funding this week run the gamut from cutting edge research efforts to decidedly low-tech enterprises.
Washington Post (Nov 23, 2012)
Two gargantuan steam boilers fitted outside were connected to 13 cookers through pipes that ran across the roof of the kitchen.
New York Times (Jul 24, 2013)
Yes, these garrulous Russians are on occasion willing to shut up, most memorably at dinner while listening to a piece of prerevolutionary church music.
New York Times (May 6, 2013)
Suddenly we are there, in this empty gallery, on a freezing morning, watching this man dust antiquities in the gelid, vodka light.
The Guardian (Mar 24, 2010)
But rather than old-fashioned witless xenophobia, his material is rooted in keen observational humour, which swaps hackneyed cliche for fresh insights.
The Guardian (Apr 13, 2013)
Other reasons included managers not checking what they were being told by sales staff, and a failure to heed warning signs going back several years.
BBC (May 10, 2013)
Four people responsible for "this heinous, vicious, cruel crime" were recently apprehended and charged with robbery, assault and other crimes, Booker said.
Reuters (Feb 13, 2013)
He said his predecessors had given Lockheed too much leeway earlier, when government oversight was considered “a hindrance more than a help
New York Times (Nov 28, 2012)
Gone are the narrative histrionics and set pieces that have come to define the Gears campaign, replaced with something subtler.
The Guardian (Mar 23, 2013)
Even the hoary Voyager 1 space probe, whose official mission ended three decades ago, is making news simply by leaving the building.
Time (Dec 6, 2012)
I remember hearing a sermon just before Purim, in Vienna, and the Jewish preacher gave an admirable homiletic explanation of this rule.
Israel Abrahams