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“Ham and eggs, dry toast and shrimps,” said the keen-eyed traveller in reply to the reiterated question.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNEHe reached over, with astonishing suddenness in one so bulky, and twirled the secretary about with his ham of a hand.
SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLANDA pair of carvers, laid with my cover, tell me that I shall have to carve the ham which is here eaten with the chicken.
FRIEND MAC DONALDMAX O'RELLMy host has before him a fine joint of beef, there are two chicken in front of my hostess, and I am placed opposite a boiled ham.
FRIEND MAC DONALDMAX O'RELLEvery “biscuit” or “ham” has been cut in two to find out whether the native has loaded it in any way.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUSThe husband returned to the breakfast-table; he smelt the broiled ham and eggs, and he heard his wife's commands.
RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLA Yankee give mother a ham of meat, another come right on behind him an' took it away from her.
SLAVE NARRATIVES: A FOLK HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATESVARIOUSWilder drew forth half a bottle of milk, an open tin of potted ham and several portions of bread.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSONThey were also fond of ham, but we had the ham meat buried in the ground, this was about the close of the war.
SLAVE NARRATIVES: A FOLK HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATESVARIOUSMammy fried plenty of dat ham an' made lots of bread an' fixed dem coffee.
SLAVE NARRATIVES: A FOLK HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATESVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO HAM
- be on
- bring down the house
- burlesque
- characterize
- do a turn
- dramatize
- emote
- enact
- feign
- go on
- go over
- ham
- ham it up
- impersonate
- lay an egg
- make debut
- mime
- mimic
- mug
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- perform
- personate
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- play
- play act
- play gig
- play part
- play role
- portray
- pretend
- put it over
- rehearse
- represent
- say one's piece
- simulate
- star
- stooge
- strut
- take part
- tread the boards
- accomplished
- achieved
- began
- carried on
- carried out
- consummated
- cooked
- created
- developed
- did
- did a number
- did one's thing
- enforced
- executed
- functioned
- got in there
- intruded
- knocked off
- labored
- made progress
- maneuvered
- moved
- officiated
- operated
- percolated
- perked
- perpetrated
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- persisted
- practiced
- presided
- pursued
- responded
- served
- took effect
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- transorted
- undertook
- went about
- went for broke
- went for it
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- went that route
- went to town
- worked out
- amateur
- artist
- barnstormer
- bit player
- character
- clown
- comedian
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- lead
- mime
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- pantomimist
- performer
- play-actor
- player
- soubrette
- stand-in
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- straight person
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- ventriloquist
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- pantomimists
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- straight persons
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- understudies
- ventriloquists
- villains
- walk-ons
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
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- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
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- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- high falutin'
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.