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Definition of Acrobatically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acrobatically
Literary usage of Acrobatically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"... who has put dawn a chair and is balancing himself acrobatically]. Is this the
young gentleman ? MRS. WILLOUGHBY. Oh, dear no, sir, begging your pardon, ..."
2. The Works of James McNeill Whistler by Elisabeth Luther Cary (1907)
"... surrounded by a group of combative, industrious, clear-headed, inquiring and
talented young painters, whose minds, if sometimes acrobatically inclined, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1895)
"... the lower side being flattened to lay the loaves on, and a door placed at the
mouth, so as to work it horizontally instead of acrobatically ! ..."
4. The Table Talk of John Selden by John Selden, Richard Milward (1892)
"... have seemed to us thus far a firm apparatus on which he could perform acrobatically.
We have now to face the fact that they were the bars of a cage, ..."
5. United States Colonies and Dependencies, Illustrated: The Travels and by William Dickson Boyce (1914)
"This forty years' spree was filled, "acrobatically speaking," with all sorts of
daring exhibitions of financial tumbling. Government paper dropping as low ..."
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