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'Mountebank's stuff' he called them when writing for less classical eyes than the King's.
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Mountebank » More on the University of the Future says:
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In response to Not a Mountebank (October 25, 1979)
Not a Mountebank Rose, Lynn E. 1979
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Hague, who declared he had been present and seen and heard the same Sale and Dialogue between a German Mountebank and a Dutch Woman at the
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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_Company of Comedians_, -- _a Mountebank Doctor_, -- and a _Puppet Show_.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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When I was a very young wench, scarce twelve years old I trust, my notice was strongly attracted by a Mountebank in some town we were passing through.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Doctor, who without stop or stand, according to the nature of his country, Mountebank-like begins to vaunt, as followeth: _Ach Herr, ihr zijt ein hupscher, aber ein swaccher Venus-Ritter; ihr habt in des
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Mountebank, I think you have ruined and frustrated the life of a most important personage in our court.
Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes Michael Strange
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"Mountebank!" she cried, and struggled to free herself;
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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The people cried out that the Mountebank had imitated the pig much more naturally, and hooted to the Countryman to quit the stage; but he, to convict them to their face, produced the real pig from his bosom.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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