God made man's feet for the earth, and not for the tight-rope.

The Bad Boy Causes Trouble Between the Russian Cossacks and the Jap JugglersA Jap Tight-Rope Walker Jiu Jitsu's PaThe Animals Go on a StrikePa Runs the Menagerie for a Day and Wins Their Gratitude.

The Bad Boy Causes Trouble Between the Russian Cossacks and the Jap JugglersA Jap Tight-Rope Walker Jiu-Jitsu's PaThe Animals Go on a StrikePa Runs the Menagerie for a Day and Wins Their Gratitude.

The third edition with the elephant on the tight-rope was published in 1736.

A tight-rope dancer, a snake charmer, an itinerant showman with a performing goat, monkey, or dancing bear, may make his appearance before the admiring crowd.

No, better the tight-rope performance!

I bowed to my audience aged five with the grandeur of a tight-rope performer who has just done his best thriller as a climax to his turn.

The tumblers, on the other hand, devoted themselves exclusively to feats of agility or of skill, the exhibition of trained animals, the making of comic grimaces, and tight-rope dancing.

"Amongst other performances was that of a German tight-rope dancer, named Georges Menustre, a very young man, who had a thick rope stretched across from the highest part of the tower of the Castle of Mâcon to the windows of the steeple of the Church of the Jacobites.

In the "Histoire Générale des Larrons" we read that the vagabonds called gipsies sometimes played tricks with goblets, sometimes danced on the tight-rope, turned double-somersaults, and performed other feats (Fig. 373), which proves that these adventurers adopted all kinds of methods of gaining a livelihood, highway robbery not excepted.

And when she saw them all assembled, and saw their looks, and saw no father there, she broke into a most deplorable cry, and took refuge on the bosom of the most accomplished tight-rope lady, who knelt down on the floor to nurse her, and to weep over her.

After we had duly admired these decorations, and listened with patience to the old man's garrulous talk about them, he told us that he had yet another to show,one presented to him many years ago by a great man of that day,a man embalmed for all posterity on account of his unrivalled performances upon the tight-rope,a man of whom he reduced all description to mendicancy in designating him as un danseur très-renommé sur la corde tendue.

Should a man walking on a tight-rope yield to every playful little desire to chase butterflies?"

And all the while, no doubt, Mr. Rich was thinking how much more sensible an attraction would be an elephant or a tight-rope walker.

It was that fact, more than any other, save one, which lent intrepidity to Flora's perpetual, ever quickening dance on the tight-rope of intrigue; a performance in which her bonny face had begun to betray her discovery that she could neither slow down nor dance backward.

And yet,(you demur,) in the course of a whole year, by some kind luck, surely the blessed truthAh, the damsel on the tight-rope took care against that!

Paris beheld no more melancholy spectacle than that of poor old Madame Saqui dancing on the tight-rope for a living at the age of eighty-five, and displaying her withered limbs and long white hair to a curious public.

What would you think if they would not dispense with a hornpipe on the tight-rope by Mrs. Webb?

Beside him the others were as clumsy as if they were trying to walk a tight-rope.

There was about the man the fascination which clothes a tight-rope walker above Niagara; an aeronaut in the midst of the nose dive.

I carried the cap with both hands and balanced myself like a tight-rope performer.

He was so powerful that he just crashed through, but I had to worm my way, and walk over the tops of the bushes, like a tight-rope performer.

BLONDIN, CHARLES, an acrobat and rope-dancer, born at St. Omer, France; celebrated for his feats in crossing Niagara Falls on the tight-rope; b. 1824.

To simulate the motley of the tight-rope-walking clown, Jimmy Sears wore the calico lining of his clothes outside, when he was in the royal castle beyond his mother's ken.

To Kevlaar went many on crutches Who now on the tight-rope bound, And many play now on the fiddle Had there not one finger sound.