Fairs had amusements such as fire swallowers, ventriloquists, puppet shows, acrobats, jugglers, animal performances, pantomimes, boxing, dwarfs, and albinos, but less trading.
Uso de fire-eater en inglés
1
Here was a change from the fire-eater of half an hour before.
2
And her fire-eater's fortune is about double what it would have been.
3
That is Mahommed Gunga, unless a new fire-eater has been found.
4
It had dubbed him a turkey gobbler, a little giant, a Yankee fire-eater.
5
From the feller's literary style, I'd expected a regular riproarin' fire-eater.
6
At last the fair was over, and the Egyptian fire-eater had left the town.
7
It is the Governor of Tennessee and a fire-eater for Burr-AndrewJackson by name.
8
The fire-eater laughed again, and blew a flame at Makoma.
9
I am not such a fire-eater as Tom, back there.
10
I hope the black, acrobatic fire-eater was able to hold his own with Paxman.
11
Have you too become a man of war, a fire-eater, a target for Mausers?
12
You old fire-eater, I believe you just put up the argument to change the conversation.
13
Your fireside fire-eater does not think of these things.
14
The one's a fire-eater, with whom you can't argue.
15
He is the dandy of the company in real life, though a fire-eater on the stage.
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And really I believe it's going to be the one way of taming our young fire-eater.