Painted clowns were keeping the audience in a roar by their funny leaps from the springboard to the mat, while the supple acrobats were doing doubles and singles through the air, landing gracefully on the mat as a round off.
"The-Circus-Boys-Across-the-Continent-or-Winning-New-Laurels-on-the-Tanbark"
Darlington, Edgar B. P.
The manner in which he had spoken was unmistakably reverent, and if young men only knew it, there is nothing which a girl loves more than a mingling of manliness and reverence in the man who singles her out for attention.
"Pixie O'Shaughnessy"
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
The presence of a soiled rag around a finger gives to a boy's hand a touch of distinctiveness-singles it out from ordinary unmaimed hands.
"Cobb's Anatomy"
Irvin S. Cobb