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The modern circus and the Roman Circensian games, from which it derives its name, have in common only the aim of the entertaining large masses of spectators. The Roman circus was around or elliptical open-air structure with tiers of seats enclosing a space in which horse and chariot races, athletic exhibitions, and combats between gladiators took place. the American circus is a traveling tent show with rare animals, (daring, indistinct, fashionable) acrobats whose feats make (shivers, warehouses, curtains) of apprehension (merge, race up, peer) the viewers' spines, clowns who fascinate the children so that they forget to (fidget, retrace, resume) and fuss, and (harmonic, wondrous, homeopathic) freaks in sideshows. The Roman games were customarily brutal; intimately associated with them in the circus is Nero, where many of the prosecuted early Christians perished. The American circus is (weary, dazzling, mournful), exciting but seldom dangerous. With it is associated the master showman P. T Barnum, who exhibited the famous dwarf General Tom Thumb, managed the highly successful tour of the Swedish singer jenny Lind, and imported from then (remote, grimy, dizzy) Africa the giant elephant jumbo, who's successors on the morning of the circus's arrival small boys still trail from the (panes, train yards, throbs) to the circus grounds (twitched, set away, perched on) at a ( dingy, convenient, clammy) distance from the center of town.
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The modern circus and the Roman Circensian games, from which it derives its name, have in common only the aim of the entertaining large masses of spectators. The Roman circus was around or elliptical open-air structure with tiers of seats enclosing a space in which horse and chariot races, athletic exhibitions, and combats between gladiators took place. the American circus is a traveling tent show with rare animals, (daring, indistinct, fashionable) acrobats whose feats make (shivers, warehouses, curtains) of apprehension (merge, race up, peer) the viewers' spines, clowns who fascinate the children so that they forget to (fidget, retrace, resume) and fuss, and (harmonic, wondrous, homeopathic) freaks in sideshows. The Roman games were customarily brutal; intimately associated with them in the circus is Nero, where many of the prosecuted early Christians perished. The American circus is (weary, dazzling, mournful), exciting but seldom dangerous. With it is associated the master showman P. T Barnum, who exhibited the famous dwarf General Tom Thumb, managed the highly successful tour of the Swedish singer jenny Lind, and imported from then (remote, grimy, dizzy) Africa the giant elephant jumbo, who's successors on the morning of the circus's arrival small boys still trail from the (panes, train yards, throbs) to the circus grounds (twitched, set away, perched on) at a ( dingy, convenient, clammy) distance from the center of town.
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The modern circus and the Roman Circensian games, from which it derives its name, have in common only the aim of entertaining large masses of spectators. The Roman circus was a round or elliptical open-air structure with tiers of seats enclosing a space in which horse and chariot races, athletic exhibitions, and combats between gladiators took place. The American circus is a traveling tent show with rare animals, daring acrobats whose feats make shivers of apprehension race up the viewers' spines, clowns who fascinate the children so that they forget to fidget and fuss, and wondrous freaks in sideshows.
- The modern circus and the Roman Circensian games, from which it derives its name, have in common only the aim of entertaining large masses of spectators.
- The Roman circus was a round or elliptical open-air structure with tiers of seats enclosing a space in which horse and chariot races, athletic exhibitions, and combats between gladiators took place.
- The American circus is a traveling tent show with rare animals, daring acrobats whose feats make shivers of apprehension race up the viewers' spines, clowns who fascinate the children so that they forget to fidget and fuss, and wondrous freaks in sideshows.
- The Roman games were customarily brutal; intimately associated with them in the circus is the Circus Maximus?
- , where many of the persecuted early Christians perished.
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The modern circus and the Roman Circensian games, from which it derives its name, have in common only the aim of entertaining large masses of spectators. The Roman circus was a round or elliptical open-air structure with tiers of seats enclosing a space in which horse and chariot races, athletic exhibitions, and combats between gladiators took place. The American circus
The modern circus and the Roman Circensian games, from which it derives its name, have in common only the aim of entertaining large masses of spectators. The Roman circus was a round or elliptical open-air structure with tiers of seats enclosing a space in which horse and chariot races, athletic exhibitions, and combats between gladiators took place. The American circus
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I really don't understand this sentence:
the giant elephant Jumbo, whose successors on the morning of the circus's arrival small boys still trail from the train yards to the circus grounds set away at a convenient distance from the center of town.
Who are the successors? The elephant's kids? and
I really don't understand this sentence:
the giant elephant Jumbo, whose successors on the morning of the circus's arrival small boys still trail from the train yards to the circus grounds set away at a convenient distance from the center of town.
Who are the successors? The elephant's kids? and
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