35 Verbs to Use for the Word clowns

" Titania was still sleeping, and Oberon seeing a clown near her, who had lost his way in the wood, and was likewise asleep: "This fellow," said he, "shall be my Titania's truelove;" and clapping an ass's head over the clown's, it seemed to fit him as well as if it had grown upon his own shoulders.

It flouts the moon and the sun and everyone who passes by, showing its round face at its door and even coming out, at odd times of the day, to stare and bob and play the clown.

I envied the clown, whom she condescended to address as Mr. Merriman.

The thievish god suspected him, and took The hind aside, and thus in whispers spoke: 'Discover not the theft, whoe'er thou be, And take that milk-white heifer for thy fee.' 'Go, stranger,' cries the clown, 'securely on, 20 That stone shall sooner tell;' and showed a stone.

And even now he did not utter any words of prayerhe did not even pray without words; but nevertheless, for a moment, if not in body, at least in mind, he bowed clown and bent himself humbly to the ground.

Then he stepped forward and confronted the old clown.

I hope we at last are even; For Sir Ralph and his knaves are risen from their graves, To cudgel the clowns of Devon.

No, no; my father did but jest: think'st thou, That I can stoop so low to take a brown-bread crust, And wed a clown, that's brought up at the cart? NURSE.

"I heard Harding say last night he'd spend a thousand dollars, but he'd get Daley and Murdock behind the bars for attempted murder," declared the clown.

" Andy went about the circus grounds until he discovered the clown.

Andy talked in a low voice so as not to disturb the clown.

Room for the Viceroy! GESSLER. Drive the clowns apart.

"Look there," suddenly exclaimed the clown in a gasping tone.

My masters, let us follow this clown, for questionless this grave orator is in yonder farmhouse.

The buffoon and sometimes even the finer comedian cannot free Shakespeare from the reproach of having given two kings of Denmark a clown as Prime Minister.

So Jove, to gratify the clown, Where first he found him set him down.

Men shall crowd to the circus to hear clowns, and see rare feats of horsemanship; but a bird may poise beneath the very sun, or flying downward, swoop from the high heaven; then flit with graceful ease hither and thither, pouring liquid song as if it were a perennial fountain of soundno man cares for that.

When this gentleman walked, his long sword bobbed, as we have said, against his legs; when he bowed, his attitude was full of dignity; when he grimaced, he presented an appearance which would have made Punchinello serious, and induced a circus clown to fall into convulsions of despair.

He decided to stroll about a bit, and then join the clown in his new quarters.

" "Do you know a real live clown?

" "I haven't the money to chase up situations all over the country," lamented the clown.

On the contrary, I much resembled a female clown.

"If it had been any other but Rocca the clown!"

"I'll rouse the clown and tell him.

The park too shares the dreadful fate, For duns grow louder at the gate, Stern clowns, obedient to the squire, (What will not barbarous hands for hire?)

35 Verbs to Use for the Word  clowns