funambulist造句

• Though very infrequent in performance, amateur, hobbyist, or inexperienced funambulists will often walk barefoot so that the wire can be grasped between the big and second toe.
• Kschessinska mourns her Spanish laundress, who has run off with Boris, the Siberian funambulist : " She could speak to a stain in such a way as to make it vanish.
• In what must be the oddest book to emerge from the shadow of the attacks, French funambulist Petit ( below ) recounts his sky-high walk on 200 feet of 7 / 8-inch cable strung ( illegally ) between the two towers of the World Trade Center in the summer of 1974.
• Tightrope walking had grown in popularity in Australia through the 1860s, following reports reaching the Australian Colonies of the exploits of the great French walker, Charles Blondin, who crossed Niagara Falls in 1859 . By the mid-1860s, Australian wire walkers ( funambulists ) were modelling themselves on Blondin, copying his techniques, with several even calling themselves " the Australian Blondin ".