raree show

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She wanted to see what sort of raree show an author was; and to let him know, that though Dunbar was but a little town, yet it was not destitute of people of parts.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Help Cooper, Hughs, and Snow, with a hey, with a hey, To pull down raree show, with a ho: So, so, the gyant's down, Let's masters out of pound, With a hey, &c.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

After the vice-regal raree show was over, and that the grand folk had been properly bowed into their carriages, and had fairly driven away, there was some diversion to be had.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Edgeworth, Maria

Q. Has this raree show caused you to wish to enlist in the Royal Navy?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 by Various

The anxious reader must not suppose that we were standing all this while, with finger in mouth, idly gaping like children on a raree show.

From The Life of General Francis Marion by Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke)