harlequin

Harlequin and Pulcinella were reciting on the stage and, as usual, they were threatening each other with sticks and blows.

I can be harlequin, that only wants long legs and jumping about.

The serious exhibited a certain number of heathen gods and heroes, who were certainly the worst and dullest company into which an audience was ever introduced; and (which was a secret known to few) were actually intended so to be, in order to contrast the comic part of the entertainment, and to display the tricks of harlequin to the better advantage.

He also told us that the pantaloon's name was old Joey, and the columbine's Josy, and the harlequin's Joeykin.

The harlequin had reassumed her peasant's costume, and as she passed she raised her mask.

The place has thirty or forty thousand inhabitants and is remarkable for being the birthplace of harlequin. When we discovered that, that legend of our driver took to itself a new interest in our eyes.

But have we any leisure for a description of Brighton?--for Brighton, a clean Naples with genteel lazzaroni--for Brighton, that always looks brisk, gay, and gaudy, like a harlequin's jacket--for Brighton, which used to be seven hours distant from London at the time of our story; which is now only a hundred minutes off; and which may approach who knows how much nearer, unless Joinville comes and untimely bombards it?

He jumped from ticker to 'phone, from desk to door with the trained agility of a harlequin.

Cruncher reposed under a patchwork counterpane, like a Harlequin at home.

There is an abundance of Italian masks at the Palais Royal, from harlequin even to pantaloon."

Then, when the horses were to, in he came like a Harlequin, and before they had gone a mile, out came the watch and the fire-box together, and Kit's mother as wide awake again, with no hope of a wink of sleep for that stage.

Resisting the temptation, but agitating him violently enough to make his head roll like a harlequin's, he puts him smartly down in his chair again and adjusts his skull-cap with such a rub that the old man winks with both eyes for a minute afterwards.