It was a famous harlequinade; and, as usual, it concluded the entertainment.

Prime ministers had succeeded each other like the clowns in a harlequinade.

The next, he would repeat his first travesty in all its hideous harlequinade.

A harlequinade's the quickest thing we can do, for two reasons.

However little one may mourn the dead, something forbids a harlequinade over their graves.

It is the sort of thing he could write and ought to write: a religious harlequinade.

Young people must be at some harlequinade.'

The similes are hyperbolic; the names are grotesque; the incidents partake of harlequinade, and the speeches of roaring farce.

As to the dressing, it's a perfect trick of harlequinade, and she'll own it after a dose of Earlsfont.

No unity of plan, no decent propriety of character and costume, could be found in that wild and monstrous harlequinade.

Instantly, with the precision of a harlequinade, a stream of giggling girls poured from Eyre Street Hill and Back Hill.

It's all damned harlequinade.

Perhaps justice will emerge from this harlequinade, but if it does, it merely means that this country is, as usual, sort of lucky.

The youngster who is engaged at the theatre can set off home at the very latest as soon as the harlequinade is over.

In "Mother Goose" there are four opening scenes and fifteen of harlequinade-thepantomime of to-daygenerally reversing this arrangement of figures.

The clown and pantaloon came on, and presently Sir Harry saw Taffy's shoulders shaking, and set it down to laughter at the harlequinade.