"Mummer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Naples' bloody skirt; Thy mummer's part was acted well, While Rome, with steel and fire begirt, ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... the conversation Bongrand, very jocular by nature, and with a good deal of the mummer about him, began to enact the scene. Enter Naudet ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... delivered up to the tenth of the month by a maulvi, who draws from Rs. 30 to Rs. 100 for his five nights' description of the martyrdom of Husain; while but a little distance away boys painted to resemble tigers leap to the rhythm of a drum, and the Arab mummer with the split bamboo shatters the nerves of the passerby by suddenly cracking it behind his back. The fact that this Arab usually takes up a strong position near a 'tazia' suggests the idea that he must originally have represented ...
— By-Ways of Bombay • S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
... had sought to walk as she directed. I had strayed and blundered, veered and veered again, a very mockery of what she strove to make me—a strolling saint, indeed, as Cosimo had dubbed me, a wandering mummer when I ...
— The Strolling Saint • Raphael Sabatini
... the author of the book, who wrote about 1610. Bacon prophesies that Shakespeare, 'this vagabond and humble mummer' would outshine and outlive in fame all the genius of his time. That's all I could make out by loosening ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... he said. "But it's the best I can do, anyway. Do you remember what the mediaeval mummer said, when he ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... that the poet Rueckert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme Like a merry mummer of ancient time, And sent, in its English dress, to please The little folk of ...
— The Poems of Henry Van Dyke • Henry Van Dyke |
