mountebank

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Mountebank that he is, Maelzel desperately wishes that the Turk could be a total machine, one that he could control completely.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mountebank and quacksalver!" answers my passionate gentleman, "you bought your diploma from one that forges seamen's certificates in Sopar Lane.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

“A Mountebank Painter demonstrating to his admirers and subscribers that crookedness is ye most beautifull.”

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

Some supposed him to be an Arabian Astrologer, Others to be a Travelling Mountebank, and many declared that He was Doctor Faustus, whom the Devil had sent back to Germany.

From The Monk; a romance by Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)

Mountebank Talmage has just preached a funeral sermon on General Joshua.

From Arrows of Freethought by Foote, G. W. (George William)