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mountebank

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William Read died; originally a cobbler, became a mountebank, and practiced medicine by the light of nature!

Surely, if one such mountebank can cheer her thus, she shall be fed on white magic each day.

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

I'm better than a young mountebank—I've vanity enough to say that.

For my gibbosities tickled the taste of a travelling mountebank.

THE PROUD PRINCEJUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY

I have really, then, the vastly prodigious honour to be exalted in your fair graces to the level of a mountebank?

CAMILLAFANNY BURNEY

Two or three young ladies, some of the younger men, and the elder women stared at Lousteau as if he were a mountebank.

That was a case of high mystification, of jugglery worthy of a street-corner mountebank.

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

"UNTO CAESAR"BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZY

And now the imperial mountebank was coming home himself, having ordered his triumph as he had stage-managed his deeds of valour.

"UNTO CAESAR"BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZY

He was a perfect mountebank, a consummate actor, and now he called to his aid his full powers of deception.

"UNTO CAESAR"BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZY

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985