10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIGHT-ROPE WALKING»
Discover the use of
tight-rope walking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tight-rope walking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951
Deciding to become a christian is like deciding to give up walking on the ground
and do tight-rope walking instead, where nothing is more easy than to slip and
every slip can be fatal. Now if a friend of mine were to take up tight-rope walking ...
2
A Fresh Look at Improving Your Work Environment: Using ...
As a kid did you ever climb on top of a teeter-totter and try to balance it by
straddling the fulcrum? Ever try tight-rope walking or walking on top of a barrel? I
think sometimes adults lose the memory of active and physical challenges like
these.
3
The Great Round World, and what is Going on in it
He was trained for an acrobat and tight-rope walking, and came to this country
with a troup of pantomimists. While here he visited Niagara Falls, and the idea at
once struck him that, if he dared to cross those terrible waters on a rope, his ...
4
Olivia Saves the Circus
When all the circus performers become ill, young Olivia suddenly finds herself in the spotlight under the big tent as the stand-in for the fire eater, elephant rider, lion tamer, trapeze artist and others.
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
C4] UF Junctions, Tight (Cell biology) Pentilaminar junctions (Cell biology)
Zonula occludens BT Cell junctions RT Junctional complexes (Epithelium) Tight
rope walking USE Tightrope walking Tightrope performers USE Aerialists
Tightrope ...
Library of Congress, 2006
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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General ...
This last is in all probability the oldest form of tight-rope walking, and I believe
dates back to classic times. It receives its name from the fact that the performer
walks up a rope which is stretched from the ground to some convenient elevation
...
As dancing, rightly practised, is more elegant than walking, soM. Bloxdin's tight-
rope dancing is superior and more worth seeing than his tight-rope walking,
albeit in this last there is the charming chance of seeing him fall off and break his
neck.
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1861
This last is in ^.li 'ci I the oldest form of tight-rope walking, and I believe classic
times. It receives its name from the fact that walks up & rope which is stretched
from the ground to a elevation forty or fifty feet away. When I was yoi popular ;
and ...
As dancing, rightly practised, is more elegant than walking, so M. Blondin's tight-
rope dancing is superior and more worth seeing than his tight-rope walking,
albeit in this last there is the charming chance of seeing him fall off and break his
...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... players Tight rope walking USE Tightrope walking Tightrope performers USE
Aerialists Tightrope walking (May Subd Geog) [GV553] UF Funambulation High
wire walking Rope walking Ropedancing Tight rope walking BT Acrobatics Tigrai
...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TIGHT-ROPE WALKING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
tight-rope walking is used in the context of the following news items.
Man arrested for tight-rope walking on Steel Bridge, police say
Portland police arrested a man who was tight-rope walking on the cables of the ... Instead, he was walking the wires between the bridge's two tallest towers. «KATU, Aug 14»
