"Acrobatics" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the tribes would display hostility towards us at first sight, but I generally managed to ingratiate myself into their good graces by the exercise of a little diplomacy—and acrobatics. Curiously enough, many of these tribes did not display much surprise at seeing a white man, apparently reserving all their amazement for Bruno's bark and the white ...
— The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont - as told by Himself • Louis de Rougemont
... which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. We could only get the wire after all business was cleared, usually about midnight, and for months, in the quiet hours, that wire was subjected to more electrical acrobatics than any other wire ever experienced. When the experiments ended, Edison's system was put into regular commercial operation between New York and Washington; and did fine work. If the single wire had not broken about ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... in all sorts of underwater acrobatics. Presently Bud felt a nudge in the back that sent him hurtling a dozen yards ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton
... step toward him, but stopped. He was so evidently engrossed in the acrobatics of the honest workman in mid-air that he could not have seen her and she turned swiftly and walked the ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace |
