This great see-saw goes rolling and pitching like a ship at sea, and it is not every circus rider that could stay on it.

"It's a circus rider in a ballerina's costume," Joshua explained.

Throughout the ride he performed the kind of maneuver done successfully only by circus riders and children on the calmest of ponies.

Unless some of you are circus riders, I don't quite see what you can do.

At the back of the tent, behind a curtain, were the circus riders, and one of them, pulling on his boots, was Sergeant Troy.

Four of the girls were former circus riders.

With the skill of a circus rider she swung from the stirrups up into the saddle, balancing there with inhuman ease and grace.

You should have seen how some of them used to stare down their noses at me, because they all knew I'd been a circus rider!

With the speed and precision of circus riders, they sprang down from their horses, bows in one hand and the great shields in the other.

After a month in Havana, a Japanese circus rider suddenly visited him.