Circus Tent

Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work -- as a mime, as a circus-tent technician -- and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band (she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck). ❋ Unknown (2009)

As we are about to say our goodbyes, I finish packing a box full of giveaways, and secretly pretend, as I always do, that I am getting into that orange jalopy of Cecile's and running away with the circus-tent technician. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed, Aunt Cécile has relocated for work--as a mime, as a circus-tent technician--and, most recently, as a driver for a punk-rock band she holds a poids lourds* license for her 5-ton truck. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For much of the twentieth century Carl Sandburg's loud, circus-tent hagiography would dominate the field, its vast American audience only sometimes drawn away by the mature, unsentimental studies of scholars such as J.G. Randall and David H. Donald. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But it would be unfair to let this dark-browed Norman go, without at least a passing allusion to the large and friendly manner in which he rakes up, out of brothel, out of gutter, out of tenement, out of sweat-shop, out of circus-tent, out of wharf shanty, out of barge cabin, every kind and species of human derelict to immortalise their vagrant humanity in the amber of his flawless style. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

I was only about half as big as he was, and when I had on one of his shirts I felt as if I had on a circus-tent. ❋ Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 (1916)

[i can] [see] [that guy's] circus tent ❋ Manda (2004)

"[Ah man]! It was this one [broad] and 4 other guys doing a [circus tent] with that girl!" ❋ Placeboady (2009)

There was a [circus tent] at [the last] [sock party] ❋ Cnote The Crow (2021)

[Kelly] got such a Circus Tent when [Philly] read [naughty] stories online. ❋ Gawwasdfh (2009)

"Did you see that girl [pitchin'] that [circus tent], it was at least three [rings]" ❋ Love_Machine (2008)

"It was [horrible], he gave me a Bosnian Circus Tent, now [I smell] like [sweaty balls]." ❋ Gaboonviper (2009)

Look riding [my bike] with [no hands] on [the handle] bars pulling a Circus tent listo. ❋ Listodurock909 (2018)

No wonder people aren't going to the regular circus anymore, the circus split into numerous local branches when it came to town instead of one [big top], and it has yet to pack up and [leave town]. Have you ever seen a [circus tent] in one town for this long? ❋ The Original Agahnim (2022)

The people at [the COVID test] sites that look like [circus tents] might say that they are forced to deal with patients testing their patience, but really these folks in line for a test, a vaccine, or a (morale) booster aren't there because they want to be there in line, they are there because they were told they had too (though technically they weren't forced as in do this or die/get detained) and weren't told by anyone whether there were any other options than getting/staying in line at the nearest [circus tent]. ❋ The Original Agahnim (2022)

Yo, check out [da] [circus tents] on [dat bitch]! ❋ Michelle Dean (2003)