Newmarket [the scene of the annual horse races has been at Newmarket Heath since the time of James I], lies, rather than hangs, crouched upon the back of the animal, with no better chance of saving itself than a sack of corn — combine to make a picture more than sufficiently ludicrous to spectators, however uncomfortable to the exhibiter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
That license requires Sipek to operate as an animal exhibiter. ❋ Unknown (2005)
When Christ was given for us, God the Father gave him, and set him forth to be a propitiation; but in this exhibition it is Christ himself, I say, that is the immediate exhibiter. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
JENNY LIND. to approach them, and spend hours in traducing me; even her attorney, Mr. John Jay, has been so blind to her interests, as to aid in poisoning her mind against me, by pouring into her ears the most silly twaddle, all of which amounts to nothing and less than nothing -- such as the regret that I was a showman, exhibiter of Tom Thumb, etc., etc. ❋ Unknown (1891)
The Duke of Wellington visited it several times, and at first he thought that the ` ` voice '' proceeded from the exhibiter, whom he assumed to be a skilful ventriloquist. ❋ Unknown (1891)
A gentleman who is interested in a certain panorama said that, in a certain case, the exhibiter wrote to him that the avails, at a quarter of a dollar per ticket, were not sufficient to pay expenses. ❋ Joshua Leavitt (1833)
Automaton is wound up by the exhibiter as usual, an ear in any degree accustomed to the sounds produced in winding up a system of machinery, will not fail to discover, instantaneously, that the axis turned by the key in the box of the Chess-Player, cannot possibly be connected with either a weight, a spring, or any system of machinery whatever. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
The exhibiter, however, will suffer the most powerful loadstone to remain even upon the box during the whole of the exhibition. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
Many, however maintained that the exhibiter himself regulated the movements of the figure by mechanical means operating through the feet of the box. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
The exhibiter, therefore, finds himself at liberty to display the main compartment. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
They neither see the space behind the drawer, nor the interior of cupboard No. 1 -- the front door of which latter the exhibiter virtually shuts in shutting its back door. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
In this manner it is necessary that the exhibiter should often pass from one table to the other. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
The antagonist having taken his seat, the exhibiter approaches the drawer of the box, and takes therefrom the cushion, which, after removing the pipe from the hand of the Automaton, he places under its left arm as a support. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
Leaving doors No. 2 and No. 3 open as well as the drawer, and door No. I, the exhibiter now goes round to the back of the main compartment, and, unlocking another door there, displays clearly all the interior of the main compartment, by introducing a candle behind it and within it. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
It will be necessary for a proper understanding of the subject, that we repeat here in a few words, the routine adopted by the exhibiter in disclosing the interior of the box -- a routine from which he _never ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
The exhibiter will, if requested, roll the machine to any portion of the room, suffer it to remain altogether on any designated spot, or even shift its location repeatedly during the progress of a game. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
Chess-Player when, as is sometimes the case, the exhibiter approaches it. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
The exhibiter now proceeds to open the drawer which lies beneath the cupboards at the bottom of the box -- for although there are apparently two drawers, there is really only one -- the two handles and two key holes being intended merely for ornament. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
When the Automaton hesitates in relation to its move, the exhibiter is occasionally seen to place himself very near its right side, and to lay his hand, now and then, in a careless manner upon the box. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
On a table in the street, on which was placed a drum, the little animal stood, in an erect posture, and with surprising tractableness obeyed the commands of its exhibiter, delivered in very broken English, with which, nevertheless, it seemed perfectly conversant. ❋ John Badcock (1823)
