"Thou knowest our office, friend," added the unfeeling mountebank, "and must show us thy hands.

These attacked the mountebanks in the very midst of their short-lived empire.

Do not believe these mountebanks; no outward act can bring you to Paradise, not even miracles and prophecy, but only the grace of God, if you have humility and love....

"Free!" said Raymond, thoroughly roused; "free to write notes, and order the carriage, and play lady of the house; but did you think that made you free to bring an American mountebank of a woman to hold forth absurd trash in my mother's own drawing-room, as soon as my back was turned?

He called his monks the mountebanks of God.

" "Wilt thou have the history of thy coming perils, friend mariner?" cried the mercurial mountebank: "A journal of thy future risks and tempests to amuse you in this calm?

KURT [to Jacobus] Drive out those mountebanks!

But it was reserved for Swift to produce the most amusing satire which has ever gibbeted these mischievous mountebanks.

I look the mountebank?" "I shall not explain what I mean," she said with heightened color, and rose from her chair.

"I resent being associated with a man who makes a mountebank, a clown, of himself!" I listened and said nothing.

But you are a gentleman" "I am a mountebank," he said; "I mean a mountebank in its original interpretation.

Marcel remembered immediately the little mountebank, whom he had altogether forgotten, and to whom he had given the address of Monsieur Patin's hotel, where he had expected to stay.

I would give the earnings of a year for a set of new jokes, such as might come fresh from the wit of one who never saw a mountebank, and are not worn threadbare with being rubbed against the brains of all the jokers in Europe.

"If you want a quiet night," I cried, "we must silence this mountebank."

Then Beltane, hasting back soft-treading, stood to peer through the leaves, and presently, his cock's-comb flaunting, his silver bells a-jingle, there stepped a mountebank into the clearingthat same jester with whom Beltane had talked aforetime.