He went about from table to table, sometimes betting high and sometimes low, but was generally successful, until he had won as much as he could fairly carry; after which he went out, and amused himself at a puppet-show, and the stall of a cake-woman, with whom he had formerly quarrelled, but who now, when she learnt his success, was obsequiously civil to him.

The Great Mogul had been little better than a mummy for more than half a century; and Bahadur Shah was a mere tool and puppet in the hands of rebel sepoys; nevertheless the British Government had to deal with the astounding fact that the rebels were fighting under his name and standard, just as Afghans and Mahrattas had done in the days of Ahmed Shah Durani and Mahadaji Sindhia.

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.

be a mere machine, be a puppet, be a football; not dare to say one's soul is his own; drag a chain.

And now, in reference to the expedient proposed by the minister, that the two Houses should empower and authorize the Lord Chancellor to affix the Great Seal to the bill, Burke, with great, but for him not unusual, violence, denounced both the proposal and the Chancellor, declaring that such a step would be the setting up of a phantom of sovereignty, a puppet, an idol, an idiot, to which he disclaimed all allegiance.

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

[320] The City of Niniveh and Julius Caesar were famous puppet-shows.

Her description of the country schoolmaster, "a puppet cut out of shingle and jerked by a string," and the local color in general of this and other stories give her a leading place among the writers of her period who combined fidelity in delineating frontier life with sufficient fictional interest to make a pleasing whole of permanent value.

His figure and movements were those of a puppet cut out of shingle and jerked by a string; and his address corresponded very well with his appearance.

Within an Hour after I had read this Letter, I received another from the Owner of the Puppet.

The Puppet was dressed in a Cherry-coloured Gown and Petticoat, with a short working Apron over it, which discovered her Shape to the most Advantage.

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?

"Unfortunately Phil didn't at all care for the exhibit because it happened that I had fallen in love with a man instead of a puppet.

They felt that the Czar was well-meaning, but weak, and that he was a mere puppet in the hands of his German wife, his cousins the grand dukes, and above all a notorious monk, called Rasputin.

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.

Puppet governments were set up in Peking, Canton, and Nanking, and the Japanese waited for these governments gradually to induce supporters of Chiang Kai-shek to come over to their side.

Cease to be a puppet in the hands of a faithless husband, and at least compel this coming war, undertaken for the recovery of a new mistress, to be the means of establishing your own rightful position.

When learned I from thy practice or thy preaching aught that's right, Thou puppet, thou misshapen lump of ugliness and spite? COMETAS.

They have sought to impose conditions which would render them the lords absolute of England, and reduce the king to a mere puppet.

Coarse in mannera buffoon in demeanorso weak, that in many matters he suffered himself to be a puppet in the hands of the profligates who surrounded him, he had yet a certain amount of cleverness, and an obstinacy which nothing could overcome.

He had, moreover, become conscious that he was a mere puppet in the hands of his ambitious favourite; and he was already becoming weary of a moral vassalage of which he had been unable to calculate the extent.

Something of the same kind is still retained in the lower kinds of popular exhibitions; and the clowns to the shows of tumbling and horsemanship, with my much-respected friend Mr. Punch in a puppet-show, bear a pretty close resemblance to the gracioso of the Spaniards, the arlequino of the Italians, and the clown of the ancient English drama.

But I noticed that Aniela was conscious that her husband acted as a mere puppet in my hands, and she felt ashamed for him and deeply humiliated; but such was the resentment I had towards her that the sight of it did me good.

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.

And he made the Red Axe bow like a puppet in his hands as he swept the cloak of red out behind the handle.