sword-swallower
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He already had dozens, piled in cardboard boxes: a sword-swallower, clutching her sword; a teenager, the outline of a cell phone just visible in her back pocket; two sea nymphs from this year’s Mermaid Parade.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2013
Behind that bush stands the bearded lady and over in the cutlery department the sword-swallower is just about to show his guts.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the drama of a sword-swallower, he threw back his head and sank his finger into his mouth.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
Like a sword-swallower I saw in Belfast, I will ask you to "put your hands together," for the anecdote just related is corroborated by the charm of his fairy drawings.
From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.
It was through the good offices of a sword-swallower that the Scotch physician, Stevens, was enabled to make his experiments on digestion.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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