How the Associate Master clowned!
"Look Back on Happiness"
Knut Hamsun
They are of all sorts and degrees, these delusions, and I suppose that in the last analysis it was not pleasure I got from the clown and his clowning, clowned he ever so merrily.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
Ramos, fully clad in the Archer, clowned his way forward to write his name with great flourishes, his ball point clutched in a space glove.
"The Planet Strappers"
Raymond Zinke Gallun