mummer

How To Use mummer In A Sentence

• 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
• He knew better than anyone what empty mummery such a spectacle as this really was. LORD PRESTIMION
• The Zmutt Ridge was climbed by the famous English alpinist Albert Frederick Mummery in 1879.
• In the Enquiry he called Catholics ‘devotees of superstition’ and Catholic liturgy ‘mummeries.’
• Originally they were mummers, performing traditional plays, and they then became known as waits, who would tour the town every evening before Christmas.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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'.
• The Mummers Troupe went from agitprop to revivals of traditional Newfoundland mummers plays, and from there to documentary ‘people's histories’.