No sooner had he appeared than all the performers walked away.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
We got into the universal life-saving uniform, of course, and assumed conventional attitudes of looking out to sea and acting as chorus to the grand principal performers; but the habits and instincts of generations were too strong for us.
"Command"
William McFee
And always between the turns of the performances the performers look up and show their white teeth and talk softly to us, but we can't hear what they say the windows are so high up.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch