1 Church ain't shucks to a circus.
2 There's things going on at a circus all the time.
3 But they cared nothing for marbles, or circus, or swimming, or anything.
4 They would have given anything to have that swarthy sun-tanned skin of his, and his glittering notoriety; and Tom would not have parted with either for a circus.
5 Well, I'll have pie and a glass of soda every day, and I'll go to every circus that comes along.
6 We struck it mighty lucky; there was going to be a circus there that afternoon, and the country people was already beginning to come in, in all kinds of old shackly wagons, and on horses.
7 The circus would leave before night, so our show would have a pretty good chance.
8 I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent.
9 Well, all through the circus they done the most astonishing things; and all the time that clown carried on so it most killed the people.
10 The streets were black with loafing negroes who leaned against walls or sat on the curbing watching vehicles go past with the naive curiosity of children at a circus parade.
11 The music was a reminiscence of tom-toms heard at circus fortune-telling tents or at the Minnesota State Fair, but the whole company pounded and puffed and whined in a sing-song, and looked rapturous.
12 We bound it between pasteboards, which I covered with brilliant calico, representing scenes from a circus.
13 It was all in one great room, like a circus amphitheater, with a gallery for visitors running over the center.
14 The youth thought of the village street at home before the arrival of the circus parade on a day in the spring.
15 An impromptu circus, fox and geese, and an amicable game of croquet finished the afternoon.