Philander and Irene are the conventional names of lovers in the novels and puppet plays which were fashionable.

This was a sort of caricature of Mephistopheles, who became, through his ludicrous clumsiness, a pet-devil of the populace in the puppet-shows, particularly in Holland.

Cowboy Jim puppet book.

Najran rose in his favour, and he marched confidently upon Sana, the great capital city of Yemen, slew the puppet king Shehr and took command of the surrounding country.

The golden cord, by Warwick Deeping. (Pub. abroad in 30 installments as The puppet master, in the Daily Mail, London, June 26-July 30, 1935) © 26Jun-30Jul35, AI-20479; 9Sep35, A86269.

Besides this, there was a large and complete puppet theatre belonging to the school.

Inner Mongolia was always united to China much more closely; only for a time during the war with Japan did the Japanese maintain there a puppet government.

After capturing Ch'ang-an he installed a puppet emperor there, a grandson of Yang Ti.

This performance is much attended by the lazzaroni and fainéans of the lower orders of Naples and the puppet showman is obliged to have recourse to various stratagems and ingenious sallies to induce a handsome contribution to be made.

The heroes of the puppet stage.

There is a small group of German professors interested solely in scientific research, such as Professor Roentgen and the late Professor Ehrlich, which we exclude from the "puppet professors.

He is but a puppet saint that moves he knows not how, and his ignorance is the dull, leaden weight that puts all his parts in motion.

Long ago she proved the efficiency of her control, and the successful pulling of her puppet-strings, and no instance of that is more complete than the brief story of Yakub Jemil and the extinction of him and his party, which, though it happened a full year ago, has only lately been completely transmitted.

A weak, divided and politically isolated Poland of twelve or fifteen million people, under some puppet adventurer king set up between the Hohenzollerns and the Tsardom, does not promise much happiness for the Poles or much security for the peace of the world.

As with the professor, so with the pastor, it is no mere accident that he is a puppet-tool of the State.

The moon shone in on the floor where the puppet-chest lay upset, and all the puppets spread aboutgreat and small, the whole lot.

The power of puppet dictators in the oil-producing Middle East is perpetuated not just by US warplanes, but by their own economies which derive all their wealth through the exploitation of resources.

Am I a free woman, or a schoolgirl, or a puppet doll, to which the world can tie strings to make me dance to its silly music?

] All this may have a curious interest, but it looks a trifle inconsistent, does it not, to lament the unjustness of connecting puppet entertainments and the like with the stage, and then deliberately devote space to the mysteries of Bartholomew Fair?

Their contemptuous rejection by Berchtold and the little clique of Foreign Office officials who controlled his puppet figure, naturally strengthened still further the bonds which united Belgrade and Petrograd.

Now the real play is over I can only act a lover, Now the mimic play begins With its puppet joys and sins.

All but broken in the end, but still claiming that he had "the larger vision" (as he certainly had the larger diameter), there was a certain dignity of pathos in his exit, a late amende by an otherwise remorseless puppet-maker.

In almost every country there now appeared a king, that puppet pageant, that monster in creation, miserable itself, a combination of every vice, and invented for the curse of human kind.

And you, Master Amoretto, that art the chief carpenter of sonnets, a privileged vicar for the lawless marriage of ink and paper, you that are good for nothing but to commend in a set speech, to colour the quantity of your mistress's stool, and swear it is most sweet civet; it's fine, when that puppet-player Fortune must put such a Birchen-Lane post in so good a suit, such an ass in so good fortune! AMORETTO.