She might have been a waxwork dummy out of Madame Tussaud's.

Aphony N. aphony^, aphonia^; dumbness &c adj.; obmutescence^; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony^; cacoepy^; silence &c (taciturnity) 585; raucity^; harsh voice &c 410, unmusical voice &c 414; falsetto, childish treble mute; dummy.

[person who is inactive] idler, drone, droil^, dawdle, mopus^; do- little faineant [Fr.], dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant &c (runaway) 623; bummer^, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone

"Bermondsey Bill," who used to be The idol of the N.S.C., Began to fight in 17 P.T. instructor, very keen, Teaching recruits to jab the faces Of dummy Germans at the bases.

The driver was a mute, Vava, his name meaning dumb in Tahitian, and the English and Americans called him the Dummy.

The Dummy uttered one of his abortive sounds, much like that of an angry puma, contorted his face, and put his hand above his head, so that I had a very vivid suggestion of the lady, her sloping chin and her hat, at which all Papeete laughed.

And yet I should have missed knowing Lovaina intimately, the hour-to-hour incidents of her curious menage, the close contact with the girls and the guests, the El Dorado heroes, the Dummy, and others.

Vava, the Dummy, put all the sweepings from his stable on the flower beds, and Lovaina cut the roses for the tables at the Tiare Hotel and for presents to friends and prosperous tourists.

The Dummy was intensely jealous of new-comers whom Lovaina liked.

Temanu, who had come with Lovaina, rushed out shrieking, and the Dummy, seeing his advantage, began to threaten all who came at the noise.

She was screaming in terror, and the Dummy, a giant in strength, was holding her and grunting his bestial laugh.

The Dummy must have admired him, for he would watch him exercising and boxing for hours, and make farcical sounds and grotesque gestures to indicate his understanding of the motions and blows.

Lovaina with the Dummy drove down to the Annexe for me.

The Dummy uttered a demoniacal grunt, and shook his head and hands before Lovaina in accusation.

"Dummy know," she said mysteriously.

In about a fortnight we began to have fish as usual, and Lovaina signed to me that the Dummy procured them in the country.

I was awakened after midnight in my roomthe doors were never lockedby the Dummy leaning over and shaking me.

The Dummy stopped the horse at Kelly's dance-hall in a palm grove.

DUMMY or SUPERNUMERARY.

We refrained from gimmicks like carrying dummy advertisements, especially in the Classified columns, barometer to a newspaper's popularity.

There were no dummy runs; in fact, on the night before the first edition, I was forced to call one Herald's former paste-up artists to come in and help produce the paper.

The application of six horse power Koerting gas engine to a dummy locomotive.1 illustration.

Guarding the doors and staircase were imitation suits of armour on dummy men, standing under some really beautiful Toledo blades crossed above their heads.

This was the first dummy that the rebels had ever seen march, no doubt; at any rate their whole force was at once busy; the fire rolled from left to right far down the line, yet when Freeman examined his garments he found that neither hat nor coat had been struck.

"'Dummy ladies provided as large as life.