raree show

How to use raree show in a sentence

• They sell the memories of their famous heroes, of their philosophers and poets, by making a raree-show of their tombs.

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 | Various

• I stand, as it were, before the raree-show: I see the little puppets move, and I ask whether it is not an optical illusion.

  The Sorrows of Young Werther | J.W. von Goethe

• Well-dressed ladies walked about great part of the night staring as at a raree show.

  Private Papers of William Wilberforce | William Wilberforce

• “Nay, but my garb scarce befits the raree show,” said Ridley, looking at his russet gown.

  Grisly Grisell | Charlotte M. Yonge

• Is it worse to sleep away our lives here than to be taken into England as a raree show for men to laugh at and women to pity?

  The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane | Frank Barrett