Crossword-Solution: CLOWNING 8 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The garrison beat round him--clamouring, clowning, asking for pay, for change of quarters, for anything that came into their wild heads.

They tried him at hurdle-jumping, at walking on forelegs, at pony-riding, at forward flips, and at clowning with other dogs.

This life, whose dreary superficiality is covered by the glitter of universal blague, like the stupid clowning of a harlequin by the spangles of a motley costume, induced in him a Frenchified--but most un-French--cosmopolitanism, in reality a mere barren indifferentism posing as intellectual superiority.

But you are a good fellow, and I am glad to know what you think about it all, even though I do not need your advice.” Then, after a pause, I resumed: “For instance, what reason should you assign for the General taking fright in this way? Why should my stupid clowning have led the world to elevate it into a serious incident? Even De Griers has found it necessary to put in his oar (and he only interferes on the most important occasions), and to visit me, and to address to me the most earnest supplications.

They are of all sorts and degrees, these delusions, and I suppose that in the last analysis it was not pleasure I got from the clown and his clowning, clowned he ever so merrily.