How To Use Carnival In A Sentence

  • Prestwich Carnival at the weekend will hold a large parade and carnival in St Mary's Park and through Prestwich, which will be promoting green transport.
  • Ondaatje's novels prominently reflected hybrid language and multi-language voice, Mosaic Genre, Style Simulation, and Parody, make the novels be a carnival square.
  • Even in the darkness of a damp February night there was a carnival atmosphere.
  • Mansfield Park has seen such an exodus of players during the summer that the turnstiles must have been rotating at the speed of a carnival ride.
  • Liminal phases of rites of passage, carnivals, and fêtes are often pervaded by images of chaos and misrule.
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  • Minneapolis-St. Paul is a winter carnival of skating, skiing, and shopping
  • September 3, 2008 at 6:26 pm wish I cood but there seems to a carnival goin awn in my hed tonite, the steem caliope goin full blast Dee dee dee dee deet dee dee dee, and the midway barkers hollerin Step Rite up, just one thin dime thass right frens , and the belss on the carosel binging and the gurls shreilin on de ferris wheel, and I kin even smell the poppycorms. I can has chiropractor? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The Carnival I used to call Mardi Gras is the greatest fun fest available. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Brazilian Carnival the Greatest Street Carnival on Earth
  • There was even an ongoing carnival and lots of gangs of women on hen dos, wearing rubbish outfits (and stupid deeley-bopper things on their heads), with even more rubbish shoes.
  • Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations.
  • Back then, I made enough "sweetish" meatballs and deviled eggs to feed a traveling carnival. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
  • Like barkers on a carnival midway, it's not that I don't trust their sincerity and promises.
  • The two schools ended up as joint winners of the 1998 Carnival, which meant a double celebration for the team.
  • Unsurprisingly, few teams can have topped their table with such little fanfare and there was little in the way of a carnival atmosphere yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
  • A true oddity, it's a film about some twisted racketeers involved with a travelling carnival.
  • Back in Hastings, there's an Old Town Carnival Week (31 July – 8 August) with exhibitions, guided walks and the famous "seaboot" race (oldtowncarnivalweek. co.uk). B&B review | Black Rock House, Hastings
  • In Munich this past weekend, a traditional carnival season parade overlapped with the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed every year on Jan. 27.
  • Carnivale, Rome wazz: @dannys: the wire, six feet under, rome, band of brothers, dexter, OZ ... super seriale dannys: salutare! cam ce seriale recomandati? broscutzza: am o mica intrebare: cum de s-a mutat Accidentally on Purpose miercuri (la ei)? Seriale tv - TvBlog
  • On Saturday, September 4, the carnival procession will leave from the Green at 6pm.
  • We have been present at a number of local carnivals during the summer, set up several stalls in and around the city centre, and sponsor the Junior Football League.
  • Carnival months are the best; 'pour le reste decidez en dernier ressort, et sans appel comme d'abus'. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
  • Ramjohn, also known as ‘DJ Scobie,’ is using the Japanese karaoke concept to fashion today's Carnival hits into easy-to-follow singalong ditties.
  • Men will shelter her, and explain things to her, and cover up for her mistakes; in the worst cases — like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which is a carnival of disaster on a gender front as well as a racial one — her every action will be upstaged by those of a half-grown boy, thus establishing that a male of any age will always be more useful than a woman. The problem of the Childlike Empress at SF Novelists
  • Personally, I don't know why they can't find a new vendor for a small group of amusement park rides: A Ferris wheel, carousal, etc - stuff that every age can enjoy, along with a few carnival games. Sunday Op/Ed: Don’t Put the Chihuly Museum at Seattle Center « PubliCola
  • As a result, Truzzi was intrigued by magic, juggling, sideshows, carnivals, and circuses.
  • With racing's spring carnivals underway all over Australia, the trainers, the jockeys, the strappers and the owners and of course the horses, the neddies themselves, are all at full stride.
  • If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • But still my wishful dreams persist, and in them the dead streets are resurrected in a bustling afterlife, the ravaged downtown neighborhoods dense with foot traffic and a lively mercantile carnival.
  • Over the course of 15 tracks, they gently shift from dark, carnival oompah to breathy, folky ballads to sweeping, expansive pop and old-timey backwoods country.
  • This j’ouvert is a relatively recent addition to the Notting Hill Carnival, organised by CD Jam, a small collective of Carnival performers. August « 2008 « Squares of Wheat
  • Gina has taken part in the carnival before, having been on the Ropley brownies float in the parade.
  • Miguel Vidal/Reuters A Carnival reveller participated in the "O Entroido" festival in the village of Laza, Spain, Tuesday. Fat Tuesday Festivities
  • He had sold ladies 'underwear, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias door to door; he had been a short order cook, elevator operator, puddler in a steel mill, seaman, carnival shill, bulldozer operator, printer's devil and legman for a radio station. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
  • One young woman described spending several years traveling intermittently with various carnivals.
  • She is involved with the Women's Institute, the local memorial hall, local schools, the local carnival and is a church warden.
  • Before long a carnival of color began which I can only describe as delirious, intoxicating, a hardly bearable joy, a tender anguish, an indescribable yearning, an unearthly music, rich in love and worship. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • Shares of cruise-line operators Carnival Corp. and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. slid Tuesday as news of a capsized cruise ship off the Italian coast raised concerns about how bookings and pricing would be affected during the peak sales season. Cruise-Line Operators Shares Drop
  • The two schools ended up as joint winners of the 1998 Carnival, which meant a double celebration for the team.
  • Delighted crowds cheered on a spectacular carnival of colourful floats and bands on Saturday.
  • It was carnival time, yodelling filled the air and party poppers were flecking the whiteness with multicoloured confetti. Times, Sunday Times
  • Carnival glass was also given away as a prize at fairs, like giant teddy bears are today. The Sun
  • Indeed, the limited ability of the organizers to control the maskers was demonstrated by their refusal to participate in a three-quarter-mile carnival-style parade in the intense heat.
  • The novel depicts the rise of Stan Carlisle from a carnival mentalist to a successful "spiritualist," preying on the rich and gullible matrons of society, to his eventual fall and total disintegration. Archive 2008-06-01
  • This is no game of fishing in the carnival ducky pond, no siree.
  • In carnival lingo, those part-time workers are called "roughies," and it was a nice little sideline for Kathy Cox, who also works as a substitute teacher. Record Article Feed
  • In my notebook I described it as a ‘carnival concourse’ offering everything from turkey sausages to gyros to fried twinkes.
  • Mom's favorite brother, Uncle George, arrives in town with his traveling carnival.
  • More incredibly, despite the supernatural nature of the show and carnival freaks, this is one of the most realistic and believable groups of characters I have ever seen on television.
  • He said he needed more information from carnival organisers before he could quote the cost.
  • Earrings hung beside her cheeks and her lips and eyes, naive statements in carmine and jet, struck through the mist like a carnival mask. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • Hundreds of children who arrived in the town were entertained by a disco in the square and street carnival along the main thoroughfare, with clowns and face painters on hand to add colour.
  • They dismiss synchro as carnival entertainment, what Esther Williams did after she was an athlete.
  • Carnival associations were considering last night whether to call off festivities for this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although it had some religious overtones, Carnival has become a purely secular event.
  • Cllr Terri Welch said on Friday she was in danger of letting the town sink or swim after facing a barrage of complaints in connection with this year's carnival events and procession.
  • Out in the street, he found a carnival of grotesques behind the surface of the world.
  • The carnival parade was a blast of colour and a cacophony of sound.
  • A different but comparable type of discontinuity is to be found in the story that climaxes his Neveryon sequence, "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals", where events in his invented elsewhen are intercut with events in New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Archive 2008-08-01
  • Flynn was just saying that we should incorporate the karaoke into the carnival, have a sort of Stars In Their Eyes show. TICKLED PINK
  • The name J'ouvert originates from the French jour ouvert, meaning day break or morning, and signals the start of the bacchanalia that is Carnival. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • It was carnival time, lights and siren, and Sorvino's migraine disappeared like a popping soap bubble.
  • We are considering a visit to the Quebec winter carnival, but it covers three weekends. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is nothing to rival the weird and wonderful things that come out on the streets at carnival time.
  • Americana, everywhere: think carnival games and enough street theater to rival Atlantic City.
  • Light, comfortable, and cool clothing is a must for carnival in Jamaica.
  • They all seemed to be far more caught up in this daft carnival idea, and more recently, all agog at Flynn Malone's steam-driven inheritance. TICKLED PINK
  • Carnival, an important festival that precedes Lent, is celebrated with much festivity.
  • Suddenly the carnival-like atmosphere disappeared, and my neighbourhood began to resemble a warzone. Times, Sunday Times
  • Members of the carnival committee scour Europe for the best street performers.
  • This festival combines church ceremonies with horse racing, bullfights, cockfights, and a spirited carnival.
  • It is believed that the original carnival was a much bigger and rowdier affair with fights, bear baitings and puppet shows, bull fights and secret assignations in gondolas.
  • The branch ran two stalls at the local carnival, raising about £400 for funds.
  • The root geck still survives in Dutch and Afrikaans gek: crazy, as well as some German dialects, and in the Alsatian word Gickeleshut: geek's hat, used in carnivals. Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs
  • But for children who choose to spend their holidays in their hometowns, fairs and carnivals can be good entertainment.
  • For the past 34 years, Toronto has played host to Caribana, a dazzling carnival overflowing with pulsating steelband, calypso, and breathtaking costume displays.
  • It's Carnival season here, surreally enough, and one of the features of Carnival during years of political repression was that veiled protest songs were allowed to pass as celebratory street music. Beverly Bell: In Haiti, "We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting"
  • I watched him carefully, as if he were a carnival sharpie with a pea under walnut shells. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
  • The sun had become a burning circle amidst a sea of turquoise, and heat hazes pranced along the horizon, carnivals of air that taunted with hints and effigies of water. Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review
  • At various times he has told us that he ran away from school to join a carnival, was descended from Sioux Indians, was an orphan and had been a hobo.
  • Rabelais’s Gargantua is an example of what’s known as the ‘carnivalesque’, a style of literature in which chaos and humour present an opportunity to challenge dominant beliefs and turn all hierarchies on their heads. Sexing The Cherry « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Here, the web of linguistic and visual signs returns the viewer to the terrain of the carnival.
  • The way we do things in England does not include the smell of curry cooking, the extravaganza of carnival, the mounting of chavi satellite dishes, or alas the frummy curls and hot girls allegedly at this link of those orthodox jews over there? Nadine on Gypsies and Smacks
  • Streets that look sullen and desultory in winter suddenly sparkle like Trinidad at carnival time. Times, Sunday Times
  • For two thousand years the people of Shaanxi Longxian have been taking up the tradition to celebrate the Earth God and the Fire Ancestor in the Shehuo Carnival by parading in opera disguise.
  • Of less stature were the tinsmiths, who made lanterns, bugles, trumpets, military ornaments, and funils widely used during carnival.
  • It is the occasion for a rambunctious Carnival celebration that draws more than half a million people each year to Santo Domingo.
  • It was an air similar to that of a festival or carnival. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a different business then, more of a travelling carnival, and he didn't encourage his son.
  • The money raised from the carnival will be distributed to a variety of local good causes.
  • I've been lucky enough to revel in this carnival metropolis since newspapers captivated readers with bristling exploits of the Zodiac Killer and Herb Caen wrote his daily columns for the San Francisco Chronicle exalting life in "Baghdad by the Bay. Red Room: Pam Tent: Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat: Why San Francisco Is It for Me
  • Bromham was awash with colourful floats and costumes as residents celebrated in the carnival procession on Saturday.
  • It is understood that 50 fibreglass boats were kept on the premises along with other vehicles, including local carnival floats. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reader is introduced to tropical dishes like ackee and saltfish, thirst quenchers like rum punch and is entertained by reggae, calypso and a week long carnival celebration.
  • Festival fever will hit Durrow this August Bank Holiday weekend when the annual carnival takes place.
  • From the whacky to the tacky, couples have also been spicing up ceremonies with photo booths-the kind you might see at a carnival or tourist attraction.
  • A trip to a deserted carnival turns up a team of spooks intent on scaring everyone away.
  • One of the more exciting developments in weblogging has been the proliferation of carnivals.
  • He's disappointed at his lack of strength after nuking himself in a combination carnival ride / X-ray machine, but later when he dreams about his wife's fiery death, he's so angry that he turns into The Hulk.
  • I've always been interested in the carnival or "carny" - that strange parallel world of mutants, outcasts and misfits living according to their own code. The Guardian World News
  • Carnival Fun’ drills harmonic intervals on treble or bass staff.
  • In one carnivalesque scene the peasants return to their abandoned village to find their clothes piled up, sorted by colour; they throw them orgiastically into the air, choosing what they will - their collective property.
  • Getty Images Jay-Z enjoying his carnival This was no two-bit carnival you might have had at your high school with a few beanbags, some class clown and a dunk tank. Jay-Z's Big Hit: a Carnival
  • (aka OMM), a review of the best posts contributed to the week's best business and money-related blog carnivals. Political Calculations
  • PANAJI: The streets of Goa's capital burst into a riot of colour, creativity at its best and fun as Panaji hosted the opening day parade for carnival 2010 on Saturday evening. The Times of India
  • Packed with dense texts combining facts about globalization and war with anagrams and doggerel, the book tours an allegorical carnival studded with nightmarish rides and sideshow freaks.
  • The carnival regularly attracts armies of purse snatchers and pickpockets who find easy prey among the revellers.
  • He wore this really ugly jacket with wide lapels that were embroidered at the edges so he looked like a cross between a carnival barker and a train conductor.
  • Dougie is not a musician but he can be seen walking on stilts at street carnivals and festivals as he is a professional clown.
  • London Festival The "Notting Hill Carnival" will bring a million people, over 100 colorful floats and a variety of music ranging from soca to calypso, funk, house and dub onto the streets of London in celebration of Europe's biggest carnival. What's On Around Europe
  • But my deeper fear is that there is a hidden agenda to downscale the carnival, or perhaps even to get rid of it altogether, and the regulations are being used as sticks to beat us with.
  • He has had a varied employment history including factory work and a job travelling with a carnival.
  • Five games on each day of the carnival means that there is non-stop action throughout the weekend.
  • Flynn was just saying that we should incorporate the karaoke into the carnival, have a sort of Stars In Their Eyes show. TICKLED PINK
  • The carnival has not swung, the samba beat has not sounded. Times, Sunday Times
  • Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all people.
  • Plenty of carnivalgoers were attracted to the vintage car display and on Sunday there was a commercial vehicle rally.
  • Carnivale – The fact that this supernatural-tinged HBO entry from creator Daniel Knauf has gone mostly unnoticed is a great injustice. January « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • Before a ball has been kicked, our festival of the beautiful game has already been depicted as an ugly carnival of all that is wrong with the world.
  • Drunk participants are asked to make their way to the bastions on the city walls to assemble for the Carnival which gets underway at 2.00 pm.
  • The carnival atmosphere that has ensued from the fringes of conservatism has been a self-propelling reality show fostered by a corporate media that cares more about getting some crazy on camera than acknowledging issues that actually affect way more people. John Wellington Ennis: How Rahm Bombed
  • Spectators were six-deep on the streets with revellers eager to get a good view of the parade of carnival floats.
  • For J'Ouvert on Carnival Monday morning there's the non-stop, in-time-to-the-music horn, most useful when, through no fault of your own, a mud truck with hundreds of dirty revellers turns the corner to confront you.
  • That won't stop their sun-kissed carnival-goes-club fiesta soundtracking Britain's iciest months.
  • In Australia, three base colours were used to make carnival glass: clear, aqua and dark amethyst.
  • The promenade of Dasve town at Lavasa became a mini carnival venue where participants unwinded, rejoiced and rejuvenated. India Press Release
  • But here the joke is taken even further in that the rowdy revelations and carnival vulgarities of a typical Jerry Springer talk show are set by Richard Thomas to chorales and anthems evoking Bach and Handel.
  • Merriam-Webster online doth quoth: ‘A geek used to be a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake.’
  • Neon lights, theatrically lighted landmarks and monuments, and carnivals all present picture opportunities that don't show up by daylight.
  • The carnival of the spacy-est kids around is up at OrbitalHub. Archive 2008-09-12
  • In corporate news, cruise-line operator Carnival 's stock was one of the worst performers in the S&P 500, slumping 4.68, or 14%, to 29.60, after one of the company's cruise ships capsized off the coast of Italy over the weekend. Stocks Post Broad Gains; Financials Fall
  • In carnival, the Commedia dell'Arte, the pantomime, and slapstick we find a modern expression of the trickster impulse.
  • There was a sort of carnival atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chairman David Jessop, said: ‘At the moment the rec is used once a year for the Wrose carnival.’
  • This is the explosive essence of carnival, and it is driven by music from bandwagons, articulated lorries stacked 30 feet high with speakers.
  • The atmosphere was part carnival, part convention of oddballs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having flexible hours enables her to attend the odd school carnival.
  • As dancers shaked and shimmied, newcomers to the carnival lifted the crown for best in procession, best new entrant and best display band.
  • After all they have been used to host carnivals and circuses.
  • Ironically, it was also he who wrote a stirring love song, lamenting the end of the wining, an ode to Carnival itself, as he marked its passing.
  • The midway, while still a charming slice of carnival colour, is full of antiquated rides that wheeze and shudder like geezers on their deathbeds.
  • The game began in a carnival atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
  • Loughglynn Marque Carnival drew to a close last Tuesday night and a ‘full house’ was present for the final dance with Brendan Shine and his band.
  • This is a fine book, but it is far from the only "carnivalesque" novel to be found in postwar fiction. Comedy in Literature
  • But such a view, it becomes clear, is only a semblance, since outside of carnival time's hope and progress, hardship contradicts festal joy.
  • A carnival of a song essayed with uncharacteristic looseness by Oberst, perhaps Prine's most obvious heir. Lost tracks: "Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine"
  • The game's gonna be the night before the carnival, and I expect you all to be here.
  • Prestwich's own carnival queens will be selling the programmes outside the supermarket each Saturday and Sunday leading up to the big day itself.
  • This year the traditional parade will be replaced by a colourful street carnival, complete with fire-eaters, trapeze artists, stilt acrobats and costumes galore.
  • It was carnival time, lights and siren, and Sorvino's migraine disappeared like a popping soap bubble.
  • They would go to the carnival together and he's now the patron of our annual folk festival. Times, Sunday Times
  • The carnival has been marred by violence in the past. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the carnival yours truly has a modest little stall.
  • Bondi Beach is synonymous with ‘Aussie beach culture’, displaying a bustling carnival atmosphere, with eccentrics, exhibitionists and lots of surfers.
  • Hasn't anyone besides me noticed the flavor of masquerade and carnivalesque fantasy in Joan's behavior?
  • If we as a nation had the strength to detach from the glittering, flickering baubles beamed into our cerebral cortexes and mute the bleating klaxons, we'd realize that the "news" spouted from many a sneering, slanted mouth is pure carnival barking, and we'd see what America has allowed itself to become. Steven Weber: Step Outside
  • They carried with them galvanic batteries of a type generally used for feats of entertainment at carnivals.
  • There were a lot of open bottles left in the office after the Carnival celebration.
  • London is a major station for the travelling carnival of creators, dictators, scenesters and professional narcissists who parade between the world's fashion flashpoints.
  • Such things, maskings, and disguisings, and dressing up, sometimes in incredible and wild fashions, are all part of the fun of carnival. Cinnamon Roll
  • During the Carnival a wide draw has proved no disadvantage on the dirt and this front-runner will soon be bowling along at the head of affairs.
  • Flags adorned every car, gate post and tractor and bunting aplenty created a carnival atmosphere.
  • It was two nights before the Carnival, and Esther was aglow with the importance of it. COME TO MECCA
  • When Maria, Ben, Jennifer, Michael and I rendezvoused before the parade, I had no idea how the spirit of carnival would open Michael emotionally.
  • For one of the boys, the carnival is always the best thing to happen all year; the other boy is a little afraid of the carnival's presence. Boing Boing
  • Shop assistant Jeanette, from Accrington, was a former beauty queen who clinched two local carnival titles.
  • He fell in with a bad crowd in the early 80s, but got back on his feet again after a spiritual experience on the 73 night bus, and now sells bashment and carnival CDs on the pavement in Dalston on Saturday afternoons.
  • A roll of carnival-style tickets will get you anything from classic Chicago-style deep-dish pizza to an overflowing plate of Cuban caldo gallego.
  • Carnival Messiah has 100 performers from the worlds of theatre, opera, dance and masquerade, some international, others local.
  • Ron and Eileen were born in the same maternity unit, posed as "bride and groom" at a town carnival aged four, married for real at 21 and now, 70 years later, are celebrating their platinum wedding anniversary.
  • Leanne has had her heart set on becoming the carnival queen for a number of years and was really delighted.
  • The first thing I missed mentioning, though, was the Carnivalesque XIII on archaeoastronomy. Indeed, she lives!
  • Bustling in, burdened with packages, she had just returned from a twelve-hour day at The Children's Art Carnival.
  • However, Zigun -- who says he voted for Obama in 2008 and will probably support him again in 2012 -- does believe the President misspoke when he used the term "carnival barker. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The countdown to the Notting Hill Carnival is in its final hours.
  • He later returned to England, where in poverty he was forced to sell his tattooed face in a travelling carnival.
  • Mark Svenvold has retraced McCurdy's life, death and eventful afterlife in a fascinating tale of the macabre under-belly of American sideshows and carnivals.
  • It always creates a carnival atmosphere on the riverside, which is a beautiful location, and if previous years are anything to go by, there is something for people of all ages. Your Local Guardian | Sutton
  • In the days before her wedding, after college graduation, she finds herself being drawn into the classic ‘torrid affair’ with a roustabout at a carnival.
  • The spectacle attracted thousands of tourists to the town as the local carnival queen—or "Flower Queen", as she was known—led the parade.
  • From the triathlon and local hikes for the seriously sporty to pub-crawls and hog roasts for those who prefer gentler enjoyments, the carnival programme has something for everyone.
  • The first carnival event will be the appointment of the carnival royalty, including carnival queen, princess and prince, in the town hall on April 30.
  • He let army contractors in to browse the bronzes, ormolu-mounted Sèvres vases, and giltwood mirrors that once reflected carnivals of artifice, vanity, and debauch. THE DIAMOND
  • In fact we can buy a ranch and eat suckling pig, if food is what bothers you and dress up for the carnival.
  • Gina has taken part in the carnival before, having been on the Ropley brownies float in the parade.
  • The show floor is like a carnival midway, only carpeted and slightly less aromatic.
  • Threatening storms stayed away until the end of the carnival procession when those on the floats and spectators heading home were drenched.
  • The event is something like a jamboree or carnival with some off-road activities, off-road car shows, car accessory sales, food stalls and information booths.
  • “I haven’t seen Ingrid since the carnival,” she said, stressing the word carnival to jolt his memory. Stones from the River
  • When, on very great occasions, “the portress nun” allowed dancing, restricting the games of boston, whist, and backgammon within the limits of her bedroom, such a concession was accounted as the most unhoped felicity, and made them happier than going to the great balls, to two or three of which Guillaume would take the girls at the time of the Carnival. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
  • Adding Creole sauce to an omelette is like turning a funeral cortège into a carnival.
  • Ever noticed the remarkable similarity between these fairs and traveling roadside carnivals.
  • An unnamed carnival promoter who cooperated with authorities introduced an undercover FBI agent to Mr. Boyland, saying he was a family friend who owned an import-export business in Philadelphia and dabbled in real estate. Assemblyman Again Faces Bribe Charges
  • If you have never seen him live, this is an opportunity to see a master of his instrument but also a great showman, exemplified by his calypsos such as ‘Don't Stop the Carnival’.
  • After the carnival pageantry of the State of the Union, Rod's dismal complacencies come across like the mutterings of a crank trapped in an elevator. Is this the person you want to be listening to a year from now?
  • The sun shone brightly in Bradford at the weekend as the Lord Mayor's carnival parade filled the streets with colour, fire and light.
  • The sun shone brightly in Bradford at the weekend as the Lord Mayor's carnival parade filled the streets with colour, fire and light.
  • 'geographical Carnival,' as we called the farcical Congress of last To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
  • There's a real carnival atmosphere in the streets.
  • Like all U.N. gabfests since the first Earth Summit at Rio in 1992, the conference at Durban was but the formal core of a giant carnival, something like a medieval ice fair in a Bruegel painting.
  • Leigh Carnival is back in a big way - 19 years after the bunting was rolled away for the last time.

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