Sentence example with the word 'marionette'

marionette

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Definition n. a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer

Last update: October 21, 2015


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Books, pictures, objects of art, antiquities, reminiscences of Rat Goethe's visit to Italy, above all a marionette theatre, kindled the child's quick intellect and imagination.   [Please select]

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” Then in the very doorway she turned right round as a marionette would turn.   [Please select]

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"Delia's like a marionette--always dancing to some hidden string," the teacher remarked once to Miss Rodgers.   [Please select]

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His limbs seemed to be fastened on with wires, like the limbs of a marionette.   [Please select]

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But when I saw you in MacEvoy's cottage there, it was plain that you were one of US--I mean a MAN, and not a marionette or a mummy.   [Please select]

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Racing-liners with twin-screws sing "The Turkish Patrol" and the overture to the "Bronze Horse," and "Madame Angot," till something goes wrong, and then they render Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," with variations.   [Please select]

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