How To Use Harlequin In A Sentence

But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
The town now boasts the Harlequin shopping centre.
They carried candles and wore masks: an eggshell face with antlers; a patchwork harlequin; a Casanova; a Scaramouch. The Faculty Club
The harlequin is enamoured of a young dancer who has been forced to marry the proprietor of the troupe.

Another new duck for us was the exquisite Harlequin Duck, a waterfowl rarely spotted close to shore.
Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Canon
We were very grateful to Tim Rodber for turning out for us against Harlequins the week before he won his first cap.
It began at 5 O'clock, out on the grounds amid harlequin tents and decorations.
At the last minute, the host decides to lighten things up by adding Zerbinetta and her Italian commedia dell'arte troupe to the program, and then, to save time, ordains that the opera and the harlequinade be combined. Christmas Gifts From Paris
It had also been considered indispensable that Harlequin should be continually attitudinising in the five different positions of Admiration, A History of Pantomime
Will the excision of “Harlequin” from the name (and the Horizons collateral will all have to change as a result) result in some back-pedalling from the RWA? More thoughts on RWA and Harlequin Horizons — Fusion Despatches
They have decided to remove the Harlequin designation from the brand. More thoughts on RWA and Harlequin Horizons — Fusion Despatches
Colombine rejects Harlequin, and she and Pierrot live happily ever after.
Virgil is shown working in a fast-food restaurant wearing janglers' bells on his head like a harlequin, the fool's cap of working youth's subjugation, but he exits to save the life of a rapper.
But this show is - virtually - all variations on the nostalgic of the harlequinade.
This was the time also when the circus clowns, saltimbanques and harlequins began to appear on his canvases, with their own smiling kinds of loneliness.
Harlequin ladybirds are abundant now in gardens and on golf courses. Times, Sunday Times
We found pygmy and full-sized seahorses, flying gurnards with their comically large pectoral fins, rare juvenile finger dragonets with bright blue anal fins, and a trio of spectacular yellow and white harlequin ghost pipefish.
A famous and witty harlequin of France was overcome with hypochondriasm, and consulted a physician, who, after inquiring about his malady, told his miserable patient, that he knew of no other medicine for him than to take frequent doses of Carlin -- "I am Carlin himself," exclaimed the melancholy man, in despair. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
Canio's character, Pagliaccio, catches his wife with the young Harlequin, played by the troupe's junior member, Beppe.
Just as he had uttered the last patriotic sentiment, he received a slight admonition from behind, by the point of a gen d'arme's sword, which made him leap from the table with the alacrity of a harlequin, and come plump down among the thickest of the fray. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 4
These scampered through his brain and tore up his heart and tumbled about in his throat and lungs, and maintained a furious harlequinade, and in short behaved in a way that was quite disgraceful, and that caused the poor young man alternately to amuse, annoy, astonish, and stun his comrades, who beheld the exterior results of those private theatricals, but had no conception of the terrific combats that took place so frequently on the stage within. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
A cowfish, a triggerfish, the harlequin Picasso fish, a drifting sponge—all these lives were being lived out, every day, as they always had been. The Shell Collector : Stories
The first genus is the Crotalus, or rattlesnake proper; the second is the Caudisona, or ground-rattlesnake; the third is the Ancistrodon, or moccasin, one of the species of which is a water-snake; and the fourth is the Elaps, or harlequin snake. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Thus, while Meh'Lindi padded in pursuit with her mute chaperones, Jaq was also tracking the Harlequin man.
Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Cañon
Fly-fishing and white-water rafting disrupted the sensitive Harlequin duck breeding grounds, thus permanently closing the river to human use.
This proved to be so commercially successful that it became a reciprocal arrangement, with Mills and Boon importing Harlequin titles.
Periclimenes shrimps are superficially similar in appearance to Harlequin Shrimp species but do not harm their host anemone or sea cucumber.
Extant endemics on Rakiura and its offshore islets include subspecies of southern robin (Petroica australis rakiura), weka (Gallirallus australis scotti), and fernbird (Bowdleria punctata stewartiana), as well as a leaf-veined slug, a Paryphanta spp., and the harlequin gecko (Hoplodactylus nebulosis). Rakiura Island temperate forests
A walk along Whiffen Spit, the sandbar that curls around Sooke Harbour, turns up harlequin ducks, oystercatchers, plovers, and, if you're lucky, orca sightings.
Harlequin is the biggest romance publisher in the world and has a huge sell-through rate on their titles. Harlequin Begins Vanity Press « Colleen Anderson
Mass quantities of Harlequin Valentine ship today from Dark Horse, just in time for Valentine's Day.
Smart, dark paranormal romance would be such a treat compared to the typical formulaic Harlequin tripe in a monster costume. "As if I had a choice...oh well."
It has been called 'a satirical harlequinade ', a burlesque, and is said to be about the nature of female power and whether such power can be achieved in real life or just exists in romantic fiction. Charlotte (Ramsay) Lennox (c.1729-1804)
Other insects that destroy garden vegetables are the well-known green cabbage-worm, the harlequin cabbage-bug, the cabbage hairworm, the asparagus-beetle, the squash-bug, the squash-vine borer, the striped cucumber or melon beetle, the melon aphis, the corn boll-worm, the cornstalk borer and many others. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation
While Kinney and Ratzlaff brush the surface of queenliness, this Harlequin publication left me feeling like I was reading Queen Lite. The Queen of Your Own Life ... Queen Lite
Fish are everywhere, not just the current-indicating anthias but all the bigger fish, from harlequin sweetlips to trevally and grouper.
Peter took out his card, and followed the gay frotteur, up and down the room, in the faint hope of placing it in his hand; but the man, by twirling, and capering, and harlequinade, always eluded his pursuit. Paris Lions and London Tigers
The harlequin threw the baton over the translucent material, diving underneath and emerging on the other side to catch the silver rod, to gasps of awe from the spectators.
And felt a shadow cross the harlequinade the harlequinade of his time. 'The Pregnant Widow'
I've seen more gyrfalcons around Myvatn than anywhere else in Iceland and rarely fail to find harlequin ducks under the bridge over the River Laxá.
But excluding all the other Harlequin imprints as well? More thoughts on RWA and Harlequin Horizons — Fusion Despatches
Fred, somehow, manages to be even more absurd than Eleanor, dressed in a skin-tight harlequin outfit that makes him look like a scrawny fool.
He mimed adults sneaking stares at him from behind menus in restaurants, little kids brazenly trying to pull off his harlequin's mask, or drivers doing double-takes as they passed in cars.
Climene, was moved almost to tears by the hard fate which through four long acts kept her from the hungering arms of the so beautiful Leandre, howled its delight over the ignominy of Pantaloon, the buffooneries of his sprightly lackey Harlequin, and the thrasonical strut and bellowing fierceness of the cowardly Rhodomont. Scaramouche
Orchis-harlequins, cuckoo-plants, wild arums, more properly lords-and-ladies, were coming, and coming -- slowly; for had they not a long way to come, from the valley of the shadow of death into the land of life? David Elginbrod
The generality wish for the return of harlequin, who though he cannot appear as he used to do, with his motley coat and wooden sword, often struts about in the hero's dress to delight them; at least it is only to this that I can ascribe the miserable pantomimes with which the tragic actors inter - sperse their tragedies. A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan
As one of the major rugby pubs in the area it was quite a scrum during the recent Six Nations and Heineken Cup matches with Harlequins and Kingston Rugby Club teams popping in for the odd pint.
The coat comes in a variety of colors, including blue, black, brindle and the striking harlequin.
Why! suppose I possessed a theatrical wardrobe, would you venture to argue from that that I am in the frequent habit of wearing the trailing robes of tragedy, the saffron cloak of the mimic dance, or the patchwork suit of the harlequinade? The Defense
The love scenes between Fawcett and Boothe are straight out of a Harlequin novel, all romance and yearning and aching passion.
Research associate Ron Therrien shows us around, pointing out such species as the ruddy duck, the Harlequin and the surf scoter. Duck, duck, owl: Patuxent research center is for the birds
Gloucester finally ended their away jinx with a 16-0 victory over Harlequins at The Stoop, but the match was an appalling advert for the Zurich Premiership.
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Hence it is that no scholars in Europe but the most learned Italians, smit by the national genius, could have devoted their vigils to narrate the evolutions of Pantomime, to compile the annals of Harlequin, to unroll the genealogy of Punch, and to discover even the most secret anecdotes of the obscurer branches of that grotesque family, amidst their changeful fortunes, during a period of two thousand years. A History of Pantomime
Set to movie-style music by Nino Rota, the ballet is a modern, plotless harlequinade, with three charming but very different pairs of lovers and a corps of twelve.
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It hosts a critical range for ungulates, several regionally important wildlife movement corridors, productive wildlife habitat, and listed species such as grizzly bears and harlequin ducks.
A comedy or pantomime in which Harlequin is the main attraction.
Lewis cited research demonstrating the effects of boating on bald eagles and harlequin ducks and noted park archaeological sites also could be affected by boaters.
State and federal studies show that 23 out of 25 keystone species, including orcas, sea otters, harbor seals, harlequin ducks and Pacific herring, still have not recovered from the oil spill.
[2] That is, as drawn on the backdrop at Sadlers 'Wells, a theatre then known for scenic effects because dedicated to pantomime, harlequinade and non-verbal theatrical performances. Letter 217
Remove old kale, mustard and turnip plants before harlequin bugs have a chance to reproduce, and plant successions of radishes, peas, lettuce, spinach, beets, carrots and Chinese greens.
Harlequin has a range of tailored data presentation applications such as Watson - for criminal investigations - and a crew rostering system.
The clamour of Harlequin, who was covered with glass, papier-machee, lamps and oil, the screams of the ladies, the universal buz of tongues, and the struggle between the frighted crowd which was enclosed to get out, and the curious crowd from the other apartments to get in, occasioned a disturbance and tumult equally noisy and confused. Cecilia
NGV Australia is in a whimsical development, one part of a higgledy-piggledy, harlequin coloured complex embracing a doping irregular campo.
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I love the almost counterchanged color very harlequin-like. Repent, Harlequin! - A Dress A Day
They return on Easter Monday to oppose Harlequins.
Cork Harlequins are rated tops in the country for they have a sweet balance of skill and power in their team.
I have played the jongleur and the harlequin so strongly that it seemed that I could do nothing more beyond what had already been achieved. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
Fear that most of the seasonal birds had flown was unfounded, as Harlequin Ducks had been reported recently along with an array of equally enticing avians.
The South African international lock forward, who joined NEC Harlequins back in November, has worked tirelessly with Quins' medical team to rehabilitate this injury.
i walk down my favorite empty street, passing through lanes of trees and greeting the one-winged crow with a hello, ichabod, because that is what i've named him. i'm rather fond this place. in my mind i'm not alone; besides ichabod, there are bone-thin men and sad harlequins standing beneath the branches. it's okay, i tell them, you can cry. Popular in the last 8 hours
Are we interested in HH aka Harlequin Historials aka one of the few flipping people putting them out these days. Anthology - A Western Winter Wonderland
Ashton demonstrated Harlequin's technical expertise when he was transformed into Colas, a farmer, dancing with his shepherd's crook.
Their lively, eclectic tastes animated all London theatres, and the legit stage began to appropriate gothic gruesomeness and the exoticism of distant lands from bestsellers; fabulous landscapes transformed, and violence stunted, from harlequinade extravaganzas; extreme emotion, terror and horror, from post-revolutionary Parisian showbiz. Projections of puppet theatre
While the curiosity-seeking policeman was garroting Benjamin Franklin, with the idea of abducting him, a small monkey, flung from the windowsill by the strong hand of an impatient fireman, made a straight dive, hitting Poor Richard just below the waistcoat, and passing through his stomach, as fairly as the Harlequin in the ` Green Monster 'pantomime ever pierced the picture with the slit in it, which always hangs so conveniently low and near. Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
Harlequins' wing Ben Gollings added a further try to crown a magnificent effort.
Harlequins have traditionally been regarded as the team of 'city boys' well-heeled Oxbridge types who work in finance and play a bit of 'rugger' at the weekend - in contrast to the Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
The clowns are neither the bewigged bozos who gave you nightmares as a child nor the bemasked Italian Harlequins that gave you nightmares as a college student, but instead red-nosed, wordless caricatures that embody certain Metro tropes like Guy From Baltimore Who Hits on All the Ladies (Jon Reynolds) or Uptight Intern With a Laugh Like a Fire Alarm (Micael Bogar) or Tourist Who Apparently Has Never Before Seen a Map (Lenore Sack). Theater review of 'Separated at Birth' at Mead Theatre Lab
The custom cabinets look like bright circus blocks, the tile backsplash has a harlequin pattern, and the pendant lights resemble spun cotton candy.
The chewink in his harlequin suit of black, white, and chestnut varies his sharp and cheerful "Chewink" with a musical little strain, "Do-fah, fah-fah-fah-fah," and one of the white-throated sparrows now and then stops feeding and flies up to a hazel twig to give his sweet and plaintive little "pea-a-body, peabody, peabody. Some Spring Days in Iowa
With a photocopied handout of a leering harlequin she explained the different shapes and colors that worked best.
Harlequin Ducks that pair early with a known mate may accrue similar benefits.
I adjusted the text on two Harlequins and two indie-pubbed books (Kept by Zoe Winters and The Proviso by Moriah Jovan * g*) and had the same issue: the formatting is off and so is the page count. An EP Alert: a Sony Reader review | Edwardian Promenade
She sits at the marriage banquet, apparently in a cafe, and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet.
The park is a significant breeding site for harlequin duck Histrionicus histrionicus, blackpoll warbler Dendroica striata, common tern Sterna hirundo, and arctic tern S. paridisaea, a nesting site for bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephala, rock ptarmigan Lagopus mutus and American tree sparrow Spizella arborea, and a stopover for migrating shore birds. Gros Morne National Park, Canada
[1] Sadlers 'Wells, a theatre then dedicated to pantomime, harlequinade and non-verbal theatrical performances. Letter 165
Less iconographically complex, though more symbolically resonant are her more recent large paintings of a female fire-eater in harlequin costume. Artists: Contemporary Anglo.
The signature area is the harlequin pattern of terracotta, green, and yellow glass tiles forming the back-splash behind the cooktop.
More than 50 others pitched story ideas during the weekend to a Harlequin editor from Toronto, and to a publisher from Arizona, who wore a diamanté brooch spelling out ‘Book Lover’ on her lapel.
He thus became the second Celt to win a European trophy for an English club in 27 hours following Simon Keogh's late intervention for Harlequins the day before in the Parker Pen Challenge Cup.
Not the color of his eyes or the jut of his chin, just the strawberry that transformed his face into a harlequin's mask.
Maya's desires to be a "normal" civilian overcame the requirement for her to be an efficient Harlequin devoid of any personal ties. REVIEW: The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks
A few yards away, just up from the white beach, a group of Sisters rested upon loungers in glistening nakedness, while a tall, lean Harlequin, a Mandroid pleasure server, offered them cold drinks. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
We discern dangling-armed, doll-like Pierrot, the black-masked face and gaudy triangle-patched jumpsuit of Harlequin, the pert topknot of Columbine, the striped jerkin and rakish cowl of Mezzetin.
His face was harlequined with patches
Onstage in the show, Harlequin and Punchinello "traded insults so realistically that they truly appeared to be two thinking beings, two persons of this world. Knock on Wood
Easter, you see, the Harlequins and England No 8, is what they call a rugby-savvy kind of guy. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Puntius semifasciolatus Günther), harlequin rasbora (Trigonostigma heteromorpha PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Entirely encrusted with corals, Mawali is a lively reef, sheltering huge scorpionfish, nudibranchs, sweepers, flower groupers, lionfish and harlequin ghost pipefish.
The custom cabinets look like bright circus blocks, the tile backsplash has a harlequin pattern, and the pendant lights resemble spun cotton candy.
For easy, reliable and colorful, it's hard to go wrong with sparaxis (harlequin flower) and ixia (corn lily). SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
The fact that Harlequin, Virtue and Pleasure are incorporated into the list suggests that the entire panoply is understood to be similarly fanciful. Through Colonial Spectacles: the Irish Vizier and the Female-Knight in James Cobb
Besides, this Christmas, Harlequin is coming out with a hardcover anthology of their best romance tales.
Periclimenes shrimps are superficially similar in appearance to Harlequin Shrimp species but do not harm their host anemone or sea cucumber.
Synopsis: A Minotaur partners with a Harlequin; they have a falling out; the Minotaur is blinded, assumes the role of beggar, and depends on his young daughter to guide him. REVIEW: The Good New Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois
A trip down the waters of Kangaroo Island is going through an assortment of colors as you come across blue devils, coral fishes, harlequin and boarfishes and the corals in reds and oranges.
The Mad Hatter is a kind of bulbous, ancient harlequin, while Alice is a doe-eyed anime princess. Boing Boing
Prized by the European aristocracy for its distinctive appearance, the harlequin pattern is widely acknowledged as the most difficult color to breed correctly in all of dogdom and is unique to Great Danes.
There were more birds in the air now; not only raptors of bondbird breeding, who had come to the Vale in answer to some unspoken call, but small, colorful creatures in feathered harlequin coats of red, blue, green, and yellow, with raptorial hooked bills and an uncanny ability to mimic human voices. Widows and Orphans
His initial pitch had been that the stories only needed to be inspired by the piece of art – mine was an upside down Harlequin, hanged from the bottom of a Ferris wheel seat. Relatively Speaking...
Harlequin is the god Mercury, with his short sword _herpe_, or his rod, the _caduceus_ (which has been likened to the sceptre of Judah), to render himself invisible, and to transport himself from one end of the earth to the other, and that the covering on his head, the winged cap, was the _petasus_. A History of Pantomime
Gabriel and his Harlequin protector, Maya, immediately mobilize to escape New York and find the long-lost Traveler. The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks: Book summary
After a recital of his misfortune had entertained the company, and after the muses had performed their parts to the satisfaction of the audience and their own, the conversation ceased to be supported in masquerade character; muses and harlequins, gipsies and Cleopatras, began to talk of their private affairs, and of the news and the scandal of the day. Belinda
The circus was just as much an art form as the symphony now, prompting Cocteau's pamphlet Le coq et l' arlequin which saw the national symbol of France reaching an accommodation with harlequinade.
The fact that he wore a girly neckerchief and Harlequin cap, not typical Aussie attire, made him an easy target.
The new collection for autumn/winter 2007-08 captures the spirit of the kasbah style and features beautiful knitwear with pointelle pattern in a soft mohair fabric, as well as styles influenced by a Kasbah signature: the harlequin argyle pattern. Kitten Fashion Week Takes the Stage at the Standard Hotel Downtown
Harlequin romances idealize traditional male and female gender roles and always have a happy ending.
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Periclimenes shrimps are superficially similar in appearance to Harlequin Shrimp species but do not harm their host anemone or sea cucumber.
Enter R. an important-looking personage with a long white beard, wearing a costume which might be, called a commissionaire's if it wasn't so like a harlequin's. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14
Other commentators have responded to his elusiveness by casting him in a variety of roles - Byronic hero, Carlylean hero, even as a clown in a harlequinade.
The new collection for autumn/winter 2007-08 captures the spirit of the kasbah style and features beautiful knitwear with pointelle pattern in a soft mohair fabric, as well as styles influenced by a Kasbah signature: the harlequin argyle pattern. Kitten Fashion Week Takes the Stage at the Standard Hotel Downtown

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