mountebank

He is a wonderful man, the most extraordinary I ever saw, but there is more of the mountebank than of greatness in all this.

"So this going about as a mountebank is only a masquerade," she said, with a touch of scorn.

"It comes of your mountebank ways, of course," said the spear-wort.

I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child!

About four of the afternoon, the mountebank rendered up his ghost; he had never been conscious since his seizure.

But now an Italian mountebank appeared on the stage,—a man of extraordinary personal strength and slight of hand.

He seemed a youthful Magian, and almost a mountebank together.

I tremble for him; at present he is only a mountebank, but he bids fair to be a maniac.

The Cæsar had returned from Germany and Gaul having played his part of mountebank upon the arena of the world.

Any mountebank who could make a fool of himself was sure of an engagement at the palace.