Fronto and my tightrope walker were in one of the chariot lanes.

The tightrope walker balancing between life and death is the novel's leitmotif.

In fact, not since that Turkish tightrope walker in Ankara (see Vol.

She had to be careful at every step, a tightrope walker in the circus.

He moved up in the air, holding his arms out like a tightrope walker.

The tightrope walker is about to fall, and then, Ha!

He stood up and, balancing himself like a tightrope walker, made his way to the trunk.

Mentions Philippe Petit, the tightrope walker, whose signature on a wall is being preserved by plastic.

I was told a panther ran Fronto and the tightrope walker up against some lifting gear?

He threw his arms out to try and steady himself, as with a tightrope walker's rod.

She turned around and saw the soldier hopping about on his log like a tightrope walker.

BEING the parent of an adolescent may sometimes seem to require the skill of a tightrope walker.

Helena stood on it and walked across unsteadily like a tightrope walker in need of more rehearsal.

My legs are spread, my knees bent, my arms moving jerkily to the side, like the tightrope walker's.

The thing mauled a tightrope walker too, which seemed a bit superfluous but made the 'accident' look more natural.

They seem to perform the same sort of function as looking down half-way across does for a tightrope walker.