mimes's Usage Examples:

highchairs for babies and flyers for pantomimes at the Croydon Clocktower.

As chief pontiff he inquired rigorously into the character of the vestal virgins, three of whom were buried alive; he enforced the laws against adultery, mutilation, and the grosser forms of immorality, and forbade the public acting of mimes.

In our own day, the French have returned to the original application of dialogue, and the inventions of "Gyp," of Henri Lavedan and of others, in which a mundane anecdote is wittily and maliciously told in conversation, would probably present a close analogy to the lost mimes of the early Sicilian poets, if we could meet with them.

The mimes are three in number, viz.

In the mimes Theocritus appears to have made great use of Sophron.

In the palace there are various permanent exhibitions, while special exhibitions are held from time to time, also concerts, winter pantomimes and other entertainments.

Teacher: Simon says: " peel a potato " Everybody mimes peeling a spud.

SOPHRON, of Syracuse, writer of mimes, flourished about 43 o B.

, an arrangement which is obviously right, since it places the three mimes together.

" These three mimes are wonderfully natural and lifelike.

'In our own day, the French have returned to the original application of dialogue, and the inventions of "Gyp," of Henri Lavedan and of others, in which a mundane anecdote is wittily and maliciously told in conversation, would probably present a close analogy to the lost mimes of the early Sicilian poets, if we could meet with them.

In 1861 he, his sisters Jessie (1851-1884), Victoria (1853-1894)1894) and Rosina (1858-1894), and Walter Fawdon (Vokes), first as the "Vokes Children" and then as the "Vokes Family," began to perform at music halls and at the pantomimes, and by their agility and humour made the name well known to English and American theatre-goers.

Synonyms:

thespian, role player, actor, pantomimist, mimer, pantomimer, histrion, player, mummer,

Antonyms:

immovableness, fail, activity, refrain, discontinue,