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• Festal circus day is at hand. (21)
• Seth B. Howe was the first circus owner of note. (21)
• They will live forever in the annals of the circus. (21)
• Against these ruining possibilities the circus stakes. (21)
• Now a large circus would willingly pay many times that sum. (21)
• The circus carries close to half a thousand of these equines. (21)
• The circus is in a measure at his mercy and he is insatiable. (21)
• Memory clings with fond tenacity to halcyon days with the circus. (21)
• One seldom sees a circus woman in a city after the season is over. (21)
• Let us take a glance at the repertoire of the old time circus band. (21)
• Many circus people regard a color or a combination of colors as a hoodoo. (21)
• Mrs. Walter Howard was the first circus equestrienne of public prominence. (21)
• The frozen mixture is a nightly requisite of the body-weary circus colony. (21)
• This is one of the reasons for the abstemiousness of the circus fraternity. (21)
• Then, when the circus was miles away on its course, he passed out to freedom. (21)
• The circus is an infallible register of the monetary condition of the country. (21)
• The grooms of a well-appointed circus tread the streets with a better presence. (2)
• A hemorrhage took his life as the circus was folding itself away for the winter. (21)
• In it he, the press agent, and the circus detective are conveyed back to the lot. (21)
• Some of them represent the third and fourth generations of famous circus families. (21)
• Some people, according to an authority on circus matters, are born with a balance. (21)
• Years ago if murder was done the guilt was not always fixed upon the circus employee. (21)
• Everything favorable, there is no more wonderful a money-maker than the modern circus. (21)
• The man who knew the man who sold his cook stove to secure the price of a circus ticket. (21)
• I think that he was preliminary to the sole event of that partial circus I have mentioned. (9)
• It remained for the American circus to bring appreciation of the waste of time and labor. (21)
• The circus man, he stood off as if he was afraid of me and chucked meat on the floor to me. (21)
• A crude enough affair it was, as compared with the perfection and finish of the modern circus. (21)
• The development of poster printing and bill posting is due largely to the demands of the circus. (21)
• Up to the circus grounds we progressed and I ambled to the horse tents and stopped mechanically. (21)
• The Barnum & Bailey circus was the first tented institution allowed to spread a canvas in Berlin. (21)
• Frank Morris, the orator of the circus, accompanied us and I had him make an address at the grave. (21)
• The custom of circus owners is to wash their tents with paraffine at the beginning of each season. (21)
• With her deft fingers and the judicious use of naphtha she makes old circus costumes look like new. (21)
• There was too much delay and unsatisfactory provisions, and the circus felt their injurious effects. (21)
• The circus concert offers opportunity for a display of talents other than those presented in the ring. (21)
• They desert household cares and domestic duties for the fascinations which invest the circus in repose. (21)
• He was a smooth-tongued, polished man of the times and full of wonderful tales of the approaching circus. (21)
• He was travelling with an English circus, essayed the death-dealing act, struck on his forehead and died. (21)
• His sponsorship made the Barnum people furious and their circus followed us west, denouncing us everywhere. (21)
• So it is that great care is lavished upon the circus equine that his condition remain all that is necessary. (21)
• It is the history of circus love affairs which progress during the active season that they impair performances. (21)
• Then the circus detective hurried to the railroad station and scrutinized the passengers on all incoming trains. (21)
• Railroads are notoriously indifferent to the interests of the long, heavy circus trains in their temporary keeping. (21)
• It was the custom for many years for the circus management to send its employees to the local hotels for their food. (21)
• The memory of the colored clergyman is still green with the circus man, and religion is at a discount with the show. (21)
• A large part of her duty is the care of the circus wardrobe, and during the winter she devotes her entire time to it. (21)
• A veteran of the ring tells of railroad accidents and other circus disasters and reverts to the days of P. T. Barnum. (21)
• I know that it is a common thing to believe that a circus woman has no modesty, but the impression is a mistaken one. (21)
• It was his own fortuitous conduct and not the superior skill of the showman that made his circus career so profitable. (21)
• The circus is subject to a system of plunder, blackmail and robbery en route that is unheard of in any other business. (21)
• The original circus wild man, the denizen of Borneo, was white, but his successors have almost invariably had dark skins. (21)
• Finally there came a request that two representatives of the department be permitted to accompany the circus for two weeks. (21)
• The circus arrived in Chicago on Sunday for a week stand, and the press agent was ready with an elaborately planned venture. (21)
• As soon as a railway contractor of a rival circus puts in an appearance on the route the general manager is promptly notified. (21)
• An agent of the big American circus heard that he was the tallest pachyderm in captivity and that London was anxious to sell him. (21)
• It was confidently averred of him that he was familiar with the figure, face and method of almost every crook in the circus world. (21)
• They preconceive how sorely taxed will be the resources of the train restaurant, for circus appetites are voracious in the morning. (21)
• The clowns of the modern circus must needs possess, they confidently assert, more vivacity, wit and observation than their predecessors. (21)
• Strong drink is tabooed in the Thelma, as is its fate elsewhere with the circus, and no demand for its presence has ever been manifested. (21)
• Perhaps the circus is the norm of all splendors where the horse and his master are joined for an effect upon the imagination of the spectator. (9)
• As America reaches out for commercial predominance, so the American circus challenged competition abroad, and foreign rivals quivered and shrunk. (21)
• It is circus tradition that in 1842, when even the double somersault was deemed a difficult and dangerous feat, a performer tried the triple turn. (21)
• We knew the stern traditional circus antipathy toward affairs of the kind and wondered whether the fixed opposition of the aunt could be overcome. (21)
• Generally, sidewalks are lined and porches packed with people eager to get their first glance of the circus, though its beauty and grandeur are hid. (21)
• Once more, I say, these amusements have their place, as the circus has, and the burlesque and negro minstrelsy, and the ballet, and prestidigitation. (9)
• She boasts no circus pedigree, as do most of her comrades, and was schooled in the circus arena after she had reached her majority. (21)
• The circus detective follows behind, scrutinizing faces and figures, conferring with railroad officials and approaching by easy stages the local police station. (21)
• The requirements of the circus built the boards and the results obtained forced the business to become a permanent and recognized factor in active commercial life. (21)

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Definition of circus:

• circus, sr’kus, n. a circular building for the exhibition of games: a place for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship: a group of houses arranged in the form of a circle: applied to nature, as, e.g., high hills surrounding a plain. | n. cirque (srk), a circus: a ring of some sort. (0)

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