kermis

Example Sentences

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He liked the roaring dynamism of the El, and in Election Night, 1907, he combined it with a flushed, disorderly crowd in a sort of modern kermis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years ago, as usual, I had mingled as a pedestrian with the pleasure-seeking visitors of the kermis.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

Flushing does little to amuse its visitors after the sun has left the sea; and we were very glad of the excuse offered by the Middelburg kermis to return to our inland city each afternoon.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.

The working people reckon their good times from one St. Bridget's kermis to the next.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

They see each other at the kermis, or in the street, or fields.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.