He testified against all dues and cesses, against all customs and excises, taxes and burdens; against beer and ale and wines and tobacco; against mumming and peep-shows and dancing, and every sort of play; against Christmas and Easter and Pentecost and Hogmanay.

phantasm, phantom &c (fallacy of vision) 443. pageant, spectacle; peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show; ombres chinoises [Sp.]; magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views; biograph^, cinematograph, moving pictures; panorama, diorama, cosmorama^, georama^; coup de theatre, jeu de theatre

It was no picture that I saw; it was no peep-show, but reality itself.

POSSESSION (A Peep-Show in Paradise) PART THREE: DETHRONEMENTS V. THE KING-MAKER (BrightonOctober, 1891) VI.

" "Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye jail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations" Possession A Peep-Show in Paradise SCENE.The Everlasting Habitations It is evening (or so it seems), and to the comfortably furnished Victorian drawing-room a middle-aged maid-servant in cap and apron brings a lamp, and proceeds to draw blinds and close curtains.

Try as we may to stay those delightful moments, they fade and pass remorselessly; there is no returning, no recovering, onlyfor the foolishthe vilest peep-shows and imitations in dens and darkened rooms.

The peep-show man; illustrated by Lois Lenski.

The peep-show man; illustrated by Lois Lenski.

He held that such places were, to use his own words, "opened by swindlers for the ruin of fools," and from one never-to-be-forgotten hour, when he caught me in the very act of taking out my penny-worth at a portable peep-show, he bound me over by a solemn promise (sealed by a whipping) never to repeat the offence under any provocation or pretext whatsoever.