Speed and I made our way slowly through the crush to the stables, then around to the dressing-rooms, where little Grigg, in his spotted clown's costume, was putting the last touches of vermilion to his white cheeks, and Horan, draped in a mangy leopard-skin to imitate Hercules, sat on his two-thousand-pound dumbbell, curling his shiny black mustache with Mrs. Grigg's iron.
"The Maids of Paradise"
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Trackin' O.K. Looks like they'll take out the left half a that dumbbell.
"Greylorn"
John Keith Laumer
In vain he tugged at the dumbbell.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill