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Theatrical performances from the popular dramas of the Indian poets, and amateur jattras, pantomimical exhibitions, also contribute largely to the amusement of the people.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder

Yet she is a fine thing, speaking in a worldly way; for there are two distinct tempers of mind in which we judge of things,—the worldly, theatrical, and pantomimical; and the unearthly, spiritual, and ethereal.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

Yet she is a fine thing, speaking in a worldly way; for there are two distinct tempers of mind in which we judge of things—the worldly, theatrical and pantomimical; and the unearthly, spiritual and ethereal.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George

As to our Florentine's Heaven, it is full of beauties also, though sometimes of a more questionable and pantomimical sort than is to be found in either of the other books.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri

The singular attempt of forming a pantomimical dance out of proverbs is quite French; we have a “ballet des proverbes, dans� par le Roi, in 1654.”

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac