Conwell did some beautiful and unusual things in his church, instituted some beautiful and unusual customs, and one can see how narrow and hasty criticisms charged him, long ago, with sensationalism--charges long since forgotten except through the hurt still felt by Dr. Conwell himself. ``They used to charge me with making a circus of the church--as if it were possible for me to make a circus of the church!'' And his tone was one of grieved amazement after all these years.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Some day, when we get big, and have whole, whole lots of money we're going to the circus every time it comes to town, to the real circus, the one you have to pay to get into. For if merely the street parade is so magnificent, what must the show itself be?英文原著 · 《Back Home》
How people can sit at the table on circus day and stuff, and stuff the way they do is more than I can understand. You'd think they hadn't any more chances to eat than they had to go to the show. And they can find more things to do before they get started! And then, after the house is all locked up and everything, they've got to go back after a handkerchief! What does anybody want with a handkerchief at a circus?英文原著 · 《Back Home》
The Muenchen October Fest, is the annual fair at that city, and a most wonderful show it is. I have been there twice; once as the big feature with Circus Carre, in 1901, and again in 1913, with the Circus Corty Althoff. The Continental Circuses are not, like those of this country, under canvas, but show in wooden buildings. At these October Fests I saw a number of frog-swallowers, and to me they were very repulsive indeed. In fact, Norton was the only one I ever saw who presented his act in a dignified manner.英文原著 · 《The Miracle Mongers》
If you'd seen a circus freak, you would've said: I take thee Circus Freak.美剧 · 《Friends》
But these voices are a small minority now and they don't stand a chance against the circus when the circus comes to town.美剧 · 《The News Room》
Circus just became a straight club, And satellite doesn't become a gay club for a half hour.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I know this neighborhood is a circus, but our window's becoming a freak show.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》