BALLOONIST • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Balloonist

... was the most experienced balloonist of the party after Donaldson himself, seemed most nervous and timid, but it was naught but an expression of that constitutional trouble (dizziness) so many have when looking down from even the minor ...

— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson

... in this world that will make a person laugh though the laughing may border on the sacrilegious. For instance, there is not a Christian but will smile at the ignorance of the Advent preacher up in Jackson county who, when he saw the balloon of King, the balloonist, going through the air, thought it was the second coming of Christ, and got down on his knees and shouted to King, who was throwing out a sand bag, while his companion was opening a bottle of export beer, "O, Jesus, do not pass ...

— Peck's Compendium of Fun • George W. Peck