"Circus tent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... them of new value to the listener. You felt almost as if a landmark pine should suddenly address you in regard to the weather, or a lofty-minded old camel make a remark as you stood respectfully near him under the circus tent. ...
— The Country of the Pointed Firs • Sarah Orne Jewett
... face with the handkerchief which he had won in the Jack Horner pie at the church sociable. It had pictures of pink and blue ducks and geese on it, and it looked very small beside the handkerchief with which the Giant was mopping his face. That was as big as a circus tent. Marmaduke himself looked very small beside the stranger. When the little boy stretched out his hand, he just reached the nail ...
— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson
... Palms and rubber plants grow in pots on the little curved path leading up to the tomb; above it is an uncombed hillside and trees flickering in the air. At this tomb, designed (it is said) by Whitman himself, was held that remarkable funeral ceremony on March 30, 1892, when a circus tent was not large enough to roof the crowd, and peanut venders did business on the outskirts of the gathering. Perhaps it is not amiss to recall what Bob Ingersoll said on ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley
... placed in the form of a triangle. Thus it was an easy matter to roll the big machine from the shed to the level field beyond. Then Tom ran back and procured some stakes, several ropes, and a hammer, and soon he had the biplane staked fast to the ground, after the manner of a small circus tent. ...
— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer
... crowd, understanding that the lion performance was over, began crowding into the circus tent. ...
— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington |
