How To Use mummery In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- The puerility and sloth of the students, the pure nothingness of the curriculum: it's all sham and mummery, gutless as a haiku poem.
- 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
- [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
