How To Use Mummer In A Sentence
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You can hardly move for minstrels, mummers and madcaps: the rolling programme of ye olde entertainment includes music from the Singing Plague Victims and have-a-go heraldry for youngsters.
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After dinner the loving cup went round: the minstrels led in the players: and they had dramatic shows, songs, dances and 'mummeries' for the rest of the day.
The History of London
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The United Nations is a dim hive of self-interested parties engaged in endless parliamentary mummery, united by a consensual delusion that all nations are equal.
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mummeries" in the affair of the dropped letters, 74; her account of the Queen's reception of the news of the abortive attempt to kill Mazarin, 103; her portrait of Madame de Longueville, 135; the principal motive which urged La Rochefoucauld to woo the
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
Nevermore
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In this "mummery" the most successful spectacle was that presented by a group arranged in obvious ridicule of Granvelle.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
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While the traditional roles are not always filled by the same mummers, they have their favourites.
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Strutt [40] says that the "mummeries" practised by the lower classes of the people usually took place at the Christmas holidays; and such persons as could not procure masks rubbed their faces over with soot, or painted them; hence Sebastian Brant, in his "Ship of Fools
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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It is interesting that the word mummeries, which excited so much indignation in Lord John's Durham letter, occurs in this letter.
Lady John Russell
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They frowned severely on what they termed the mummeries of Madawando.
A Little Girl in Old Quebec
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It was just a closet dowel rod painted white, with battery-powered LED Christmas lights wrapped around it - at the top I put some ragged pieces of cloth like the Medieval mummer plays we did in England when I was a kid.
You did NOT just give me raisins
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On a happier note the young mummers from the village surprised one of their teachers by appearing at her wedding in Monaghan.
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Yes, but you were forced to surround these scientific gifts with the most outrageous mummery.
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A kin slayer and fugitive, Tyrion assumes manifold roles in "Dragons": mummer, soldier, paymaster, slave, river rat and captive.
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The traditions of the latter three in divine service were largely those that came to American shores: plain people worshipping plainly who would have no truck with papist mummery.
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The Camloch Mummers have been invited to the festival this year, and responses to a questionnaire on the mumming or rhymers tradition are asked for.
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Baxter's early religious teachers were more exceptionable than even the maudlin mummer whom Roberts speaks of, one of them being "the excellentest stage - player in all the country, and a good gamester and goodfellow, who, having received Holy Orders, forged the like for a neighbor's son, who on the strength of that title officiated at the desk and altar; and after him came an attorney's clerk, who had tippled himself into so great poverty that he had no other way to live than to preach.
The Complete Works of Whittier
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Snuggled away in other cottages, you'll find chestnut sellers and storytellers, mummers and madrigal singers - to really get into the spirit of the thing, you could wassail your way from door to door.
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Bulgaria welcomed 2003 with a blend of the modern and the traditional, with revellers jamming open-air concerts and mummers parading to ward off evil spirits.
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Since the Living History Society rekindled the mummers tradition some five years ago the youngsters involved have gone from strength to strength as well as raise funds for various charities.
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George and the Dragon was played all over the country by bands of mummers, who would blacken their faces with soot and wear animal masks and ragged costumes - some morris dance groups echo these once-pagan traditions today.
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She told me about a time when the mummers were all getting together after they had been out for a while performing and collecting and they were having what was known as the mummers dance or ball.
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We meet mummers, hobby horses, tups and all kinds of other fascinating festivities.
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
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Carol singing, Morris-men, mummers, community plays are just a few of the traditions under threat from what is seen as an arbitrary piece of legislation.
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It also doesn't quite gel as some of the later productions do - sorry to bang on about accents again, but it seems off to have two Irish actors (Ciaran Hinds and Sinead Cusack) playing the king and queen of Sicilia, but sounding English - and yet to make the Bohemian peasants come from Mummerset.
May Books 6) The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare
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It is called a _ludus_ (or play), and is believed to have been affined to the ecclesiastical mummeries so popular in the Middle Ages, in one of which the characters were a bishop, an abbot, a preceptor, and a fool shaved the precentor on a public stage erected at the west end of the church.
The Customs of Old England
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The horse looked about in the thick of the night, as the head of the horse peers out of the cloak, in Welsh mummery, at
Mary Anerley
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The mummers wore oversized, wire-constructed costumes and carried little umbrellas as they mummed along.
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The bases of morality are sapped in the name of liberty; the discipline of the Church, when not branded as sheer "mummery," is held up as hostile to personal freedom; and her dogmas, with one or two exceptions, are treated as opinions which may be received or rejected with like indifference.
Public School Education
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The candles, pictures, images, rosary, holdy water, ringing of bells, chanting in an unknown tongue -- all these mummeries which are so conspicuous in a Catholic service interest me chiefly from the fact
Letter to Young John Allen,December 28, 1889
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He danced the Lancashire clog-hornpipe; he rattled out puns and conundrums; yet did he contrive to infuse into all this mummery and buffoonery, into this salmagundi of the incongruous and the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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Stalls were out and there were mummers performing miracle plays.
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Madame de Motteville has left us an amusing recital of the "mummeries," as she terms them, of which she was a witness.
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
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When he was not playing the libertine, he was the buffoon or mummer.
The Stream and The Torrent
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Maskings or mummeries were favorite sports at Christmas in old times; and the wardrobes at halls and manor-houses were often laid under contribution to furnish dresses and fantastic disguisings.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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Drag Me to Hell is uninterested in the existence or nonexistence of demons; it is merely interested in mocking them, a not altogether impious enterprise: the humorous devil character -- along with the humorous mummery used to dispel him -- appears in the Book of Tobit.
Movie Review: Drag Me to Hell
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That made my brothers jealous, so they stuffed me in a sack and sold me to a mummer's troupe.
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They can far outweigh the factitious mummeries of diplomacy.
The Times Literary Supplement
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If one talk with the teachers at Yorkshire, however, it quickly becomes clear that an impressive mummer of very capable and creative teachers work here.
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The Mummers Troupe went from agitprop to revivals of traditional Newfoundland mummers plays, and from there to documentary ‘people's histories’.
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He had a deep-seated loathing of the panoply of the Victorian funeral: mummers, mutes, plumes, palls, and all.
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The candles, pictures, images, rosary, holdy water, ringing of bells, chanting in an unknown tongue -- all these mummeries which are so conspicuous in a Catholic service interest me chiefly from the fact
Letter to Young John Allen,December 28, 1889
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Controversy surrounded the early years of the priest's incumbency due to accusations from local newspapers of increased levels of ‘Popish and Pagan mummeries’ within St Michael's services.
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The constituents for that representative will have time to read it, or read a trusted source that provides mummeries and they will have time to inform their representative of their feelings about abill.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Read the Bill — A Reply to Eric:
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The mummers wore oversized, wire-constructed costumes and carried little umbrellas as they mummed along.
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As it stands, this old Christmas Mumming Play (which seems to have borrowed the name of an Easter Entertainment or Pasque Egg) is not fit for domestic performance; and though probably there are few nurseries in those parts of England where "mumming" and the sword-dance still linger, in which the children do not play some version of St. George's exploits, a little of the dialogue goes a long way, and the mummery
The Peace Egg and Other tales
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In what point is the Darwaysh more a mummer or in what does he show more of betise than the quack?
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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There may also be room for optional characters, like a Horse Doctor to minister to Old Ball, or a supernumerary mummer who will be called Patsie.
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He had a deep-seated loathing of the panoply of the Victorian funeral: mummers, mutes, plumes, palls, and all.
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In this "mummery" the most successful spectacle was that presented by a group arranged in obvious ridicule of
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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The article expresses a horror at the 'barbarity' of the 'unmeaning mummeries, dishonest debt, profuse waste, and bad example in an utter oblivion of responsibility'.
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The horse looked about in the thick of the night, as the head of the horse peers out of the cloak, in Welsh mummery, at Christmas-tide.
Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
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The "mummery" consisted in slow, gliding motions, in whirlings about intended to be graceful, in slow liftings of the hands upward, and in the beating of the drums.
Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron
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spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers 'stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable -- as they will probably be again some day.
The Ancien Regime
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Originally they were mummers, performing traditional plays, and they then became known as waits, who would tour the town every evening before Christmas.
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In the Enquiry he called Catholics ‘devotees of superstition’ and Catholic liturgy ‘mummeries.’
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The Zmutt Ridge was climbed by the famous English alpinist Albert Frederick Mummery in 1879.
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He knew better than anyone what empty mummery such a spectacle as this really was.
LORD PRESTIMION
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Indeed, the missionaries, in their various religious ceremonies, -- or "mummeries," as they might be better styled, -- have always made large use of these palm-candles.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
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The young Mummers have gained quite a reputation and they were most recently involved in teaching a group off young people from Derrynoose the mummers rhymes.
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But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death.
Nevermore
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When dying the unfortunate musician bequeathed his daughter to the doctor, who was already her godfather, in spite of his repugnance for what he called the mummeries of the Church.
Ursula
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It needed to be left in peace and quiet, not be stirred up to listen to what, in her increasing ire, the nurse termed mummery and flummery.
The Brentons
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[332] The same author says elsewhere, "Columella, Cato, Vitruvius, and Pliny, all had their notions of the advantages of cutting timber at certain ages of the moon; a piece of mummery which is still preserved in the royal ordonnances of France to the conservators of the forests, who are directed to fell oaks only 'in the wane of the moon' and 'when the wind is at north.'
Moon Lore
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In fact, the mummery is the chief matter – which is what makes the play so attractive to children, and it may be added, so suitable for their performance.
The Peace Egg and a Christmas Mumming Play
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Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
Nevermore
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Apologising to the judge, he expressed the hope that the time would come when these 'mummeries' would be discarded.
Times, Sunday Times
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Examining the social costs, Mummert exposes the rank injustice and provides action links for battling outrageous terms meted for nonviolent crimes.
Perversion of Justice: Gulag America
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The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England.
In the Wrong Paradise
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The countryside had no grotesqueries or mummer shows ... though it did have wells aplenty, to swallow up unwanted kittens, three-headed calves, and babes like him.
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It was used for gatherings of staff and family at Christmas and New Year, with traditional entertainments provided by the Ackworth mummers and parish hand-bell ringers.
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A kin slayer and fugitive, Tyrion assumes manifold roles in "Dragons": mummer, soldier, paymaster, slave, river rat and captive.
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As Leon Kestrel, the Master-Mummer," suggested Parker, who read railway-stall detective stories on the principle of the 'busman's holiday.
Whose Body?
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The puerility and sloth of the students, the pure nothingness of the curriculum: it's all sham and mummery, gutless as a haiku poem.
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Another senile mummer in the whitehouse setting insane foreign policy.
Thompson: Saddam "Clearly" Had WMD And A Nuke Program
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A bit,' I replied, trying to look past him to discover for whom this mummery was played out.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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And in come the mummers, faces muffled and painted, outlandishly costumed in multicolored skirts, frock coats, long-johns, turned jackets, stuffed pants.
