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Example sentences for "mummer"

Lexicographically close words:
mumbled; mumbles; mumbling; mumblings; mumma; mummeries; mummers; mummery; mummie; mummied
  1. You are beginning to realise that I regard him as a mummer who would parade as an artless genius and classical writer.

  2. Or, if he would be a mummer at all costs, how much more would he not have pleased me if he had been a better mummer--one more able to ape the guileless genius and classical author!

  3. And these stars--see, on the ensign--mummer and my cousin both worked them.

  4. I picked out the kind they were to be, but mummer worked the monograms herself.

  5. There, I think I remembered it all, except of course that the colors are from me and mummer and my cousin Alice, and will you fly them for us?

  6. Again, what are we to make of the rolls and cracknels with which in this case the mummer is laden, and which he distributes among his victims, as if to console them in one part of their person for the pain which he has inflicted on another?

  7. Then the mummer doffs his mask and leads the dance in the alehouse.

  8. My mummer went over to see if she could do anything and see how she took it.

  9. My mummer says that folks that bear up the best are the ones that feel things most.

  10. The mummer was in the spare room; but he would be gone to-morrow, and she would be left alone.

  11. The mummer took his hat from his head and stood for a moment staring vacantly at the bedroom door, as if striving to read there the secrets of life, birth, and death.

  12. Watch the mummer managerial, Centre of a rev'rent group; Note with what an air imperial He controls his timid troupe.

  13. Other men discuss the summer, Or the poor potato crop, Nothing can prevent the mummer Talking "shop.

  14. But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death.

  15. Whether this romantic martyr to superstition and the melancholy mummer he had conversed with under the full moon were one and the same person remained as yet a problem.

  16. Of the identity between the lady's voice and that of the melancholy mummer he had not a moment's doubt.

  17. Wolfeck, in Austria, leaf-clad mummer on Midsummer Day at, xi.

  18. Niederpoering in Bavaria, pretence of beheading Whitsuntide mummer at, iv.

  19. Moosheim, in Wurtemberg, leaf-clad mummer at Midsummer festival at, xi.

  20. Wurmlingen in Swabia, pretence of beheading a leaf-clad mummer at Whitsuntide at, iv.

  21. King, leaf-clad mummer sprinkled with water at Poona, i.

  22. In him there is obviously more of the pagan mummer than the Christian bishop.

  23. In these we may recognize the skin-clad mummer and the man aping a woman whom we meet in the old Kalends denunciations.

  24. Wolfeck, in Austria, leaf-clad mummer on Midsummer Day at, ii.

  25. Here in the heart of theatredom was the players' curb market, the theatrical rendezvous of the metropolis, where the mummer comes both to talk shop with his fellow actor, and seek a new engagement.

  26. If times were hard and engagements few, that was the price the mummer must pay.

  27. For this performance the mummer is regaled with food by the good wife, while the good man puts money in his box.

  28. Similar processions with a Shrovetide Bear take place among some of the German peasantry of Moravia, though there the mummer is said to be wrapt in skins and furs rather than in straw and to personate Winter.

  29. Another mummer generally wore a fox's skin in the form of a hood with the tail dangling on his back.

  30. The baby stirred in his crib, and Pink, from the nursery, called, "Mummer dee!

  31. Papa," said Pink, "do you expect Mummer Dee to make a very long visit in heaven?

  32. She was dressed very like Mummer save that she did not wear the black mask.

  33. Mummer and then disappeared as suddenly as he had appeared.

  34. He was so much bigger than Mummer that it was hard to believe that they were own cousins.

  35. Then before Peter could say a word Mummer burst into a pleasant little song.

  36. Suddenly Mummer popped out right in front of Peter, seemingly from nowhere at all.

  37. The mummer was going out to lunch with a lord and could only think of the people he was going to meet.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mummer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    actor; actress; antagonist; artist; character; clown; conjurer; dancer; feeder; foil; geisha; heavy; impersonator; incognito; ingenue; juvenile; magician; mimic; mountebank; mummer; musician; pantomime; performer; player; reciter; singer; soubrette; stripper; stroller; theatrical; villain