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The “big-top barnstormers,” as the Times called them, headed down the coast to San Diego, another popular locale for Paige and Feller.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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The “big-top barnstormers,” as the Times called them, headed down the coast to San Diego, another popular locale for Paige and Feller.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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The “big-top barnstormers,” as the Times called them, headed down the coast to San Diego, another popular locale for Paige and Feller.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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The “big-top barnstormers,” as the Times called them, headed down the coast to San Diego, another popular locale for Paige and Feller.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Much of the appeal of a carnival or circus is the varied menu of wonders and attractions it promises--the freaks and geeks of the sideshow, the rides, the clowns, the cooch dancers, the feats of skill and strength under the big-top, and a sense of magic that isn't only embodied in the fortune tellers and such but seems to pervade the whole affair.
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Much of the appeal of a carnival or circus is the varied menu of wonders and attractions it promises--the freaks and geeks of the sideshow, the rides, the clowns, the cooch dancers, the feats of skill and strength under the big-top, and a sense of magic that isn't only embodied in the fortune tellers and such but seems to pervade the whole affair.
Archive 2010-01-17 2010
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As you get closer, besides the big-top, you see adjacent a charmingly lit beer garden and unique vendors accompanied by intermittent explosions of fireballs into the sky.
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Including one that towered over the rest, like a circus big-top from a historical video, bleached white and perfect.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 2.2 of 31.1 2009
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But what was once a small sideshow in the traditional world of stocks, bonds and loans has become the towering center ring in the big-top: The derivatives market has now ballooned into a monster of unimaginable dimensions.
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On short order, their best arrangement was to purchase an old big-top tent from a family-run Vermont circus that was going out of business.
Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008
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