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Either in the noonday swelter or in the torchlit darkness it ought to be easy to pass from aping, mimicking and burlesquing Praetorians to personating and counterfeiting Praetorians. Once mistaken for real guards we ought to be able to get close to Commodus. Then in the torchlight it should be easy for me to finish him and for you others to escape.
"W'at," said the eldest of the dark-faced, black haired British blondes of Jewish race, "w'at are we going to give at Montrehal?" "We're going to give 'Pygmalion, at Montrehal," answered the British blonde of American birth, good-humoredly burlesquing the erring h of her sister.
The purser, burlesquing the pitcher's contortions, hurled at the consul the heavy roll of newspapers, tied with a string, that the steamer always brought for him. Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding "thwack." The loungers on the beach about a third of the population of the town laughed and applauded delightedly.
If my boss was to see the old red wool smoking-jacket I wear around the house, he'd fire me for burlesquing the business." "Well, of all the nerve! Let go my hand." "Didn't know I had it, little one." "And say, you give back that kodak picture you swiped off me yesterday. I don't give my photographs out promiscuous." "That little snap-shot of you? Nix, I will!
I thought it was something like a clown burlesquing the Old Testament by reading it, not in the ancient intonations of the synagogue, but in the plain, conversational accents of every-day life During the intermission, in the course of our talk about Madame Klesmer, Jake said: "Do you know, Levinsky, I don't think you really love her." "I love her as much as you, and more, too," I retorted
"He was a pretty cay poy in those days, heigh, Lindau?" asked Fulkerson, burlesquing the old man's accent, with an impudent wink that made Lindau himself laugh. "But in the dark ages, I mean, there in Indianapolis. Just how long ago did you old codgers meet there, anyway?"
Meig's, facing the campus, Ramsey was still unable to talk of anything except the lamentable discovery; nor were his companion's burlesquing efforts to console him of great avail, though Fred did become serious enough to point out that a university was different from a high school. "It's not like havin' to use one big room as a headquarters, you know, Ramsey.
But I could not guess, and he wouldn't tell me! It is hard after this to censure so amiable a jester as the late Mr. a'Beckett, for burlesquing the strange picture called 'Hurrah for the whaler Erebus another fish! in the words proposed to be substituted 'Hallo, there the oil and vinegar another lobster salad! 'What can I say of the Napoleon of Mr.
In any case Scene I must have been acted well forward. p. 312 rencounter. Meet. p. 322 Phi. Who's there. The Duke of Buckingham, in The Rehearsal , Actus ii, scaena V, has a fray burlesquing this passage. p. 325 Phi. Villain, thou ly'st. cf. The Rehearsal, Actus v, scaena I: 'Lieutenant-General. Villain, thou lyest. p. 330 Campania. The operations of an army in the field during a season. cf.
The less dignified contingent of the public annoys the poet by burlesquing the grandiose manners and poses to which his large nature easily lends itself. People are likely to question the poet's powers of soul because he forgets to cut his hair, or to fasten his blouse at the throat.
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