... when they are most active in the exercise of their devotion, and enliven the dull streets of Carnarvon with their holy harlequinade. An analogous usage prevails amongst the Dublin Saints; they have an annual gathering on the first of April, (absit omen ...

... debates caused by the oratorical mania with which both sides of the house are afflicted-the adjournments caused by the harlequinades of Mr. Peter Borthwich-the adjournments consequent on fairs at Greenwich, races at Epsom, and fetes at Bridgewater House ...

... wv~es his rand, th~e Queen and suite dis- fi qptlj~ro.~ 2n~eparel, seats aire immediately ranged in' td ~qns~f~s ~t,>d 'the harlequinade Commences.. ...

... of our cotemporaries' does or says a mali. ?? thing with 'a better grace tlan the 7iil. Tie following allusion to the harlequinades of-the Rev. T~hr as-e-m is an admirable specimen of the quiz- zical. a.The con-tribui-ers to the Thrash-erm testi- mionia~ifil ...

... any allusion to the necessary descent. Foster unquestionably should be hired as a harlequin for one of the Christmnas harlequinades (laughter). With won- derful agility he jumped out of a car into twenty houses, and back again into the car, which was ...