460 examples of puppets in sentences

But, like Don Quixote, we take part against the puppets, and quite as impertinently.

But like Don Quixote, we take part against the puppets, and quite as impertinently.

Poor puppets of the imagination!

A Luther and Goethe may be the puppets pitted in a contest of culture against Maeterlinck and Victor Hugo.

For words and thoughts have a much more intimate and genetic relation, one with the other, than most men have any notion of; and it is one thing to use our mother-tongue as if it belonged to us, and another to be the puppets of an overmastering vocabulary.

Thus speaks the heart which cold disgust invades, When time instructs, and Hope's enchantment fades; Through life's wide stage, from sages down to kings, The puppets move, as art directs the strings: Imperious beauty bows to sordid gold, Her smiles, whence heaven flows emanent, are sold; And affectation swells th' entrancing tones, Which nature subjugates, and truth disowns.

The Neapolitan sailors never go to sea without a box of small images or puppets, some of which are patron saints, inherited from their progenitors, while others are more modern, but of tried efficacy in the hour of peril.

They are every-day puppets of circumstance and of inner and outer environment, who might have been happier, and might have been unhappier, with the women they wed or did not wed, had those women died younger, or lived longeror with other women, or with none at all.

Thus plausibly you veil the intended wrong, But still you bring your exiled gods along; And will endeavour, in succeeding space, Those household puppets on our hearths to place.

"The Mysteries of Paris" is partly melodrama; it has faults both in construction and in art; its characters are mere puppets, dancing hither and thither at the end of their creator's string.

It was the fashion, and no courtier resented this treatment, which served both to reduce the men to the rank of puppets and to render incredibly capricious the beauties who found themselves so powerful.

The book of puppets.

The book of puppets.

SOIFER, MARGARET K. With puppets, mimes, and shadows.

SEE Stagge, Johnathan, pseud. Puzzle for puppets.

The book of puppets.

A handbook of fist puppets.

FICKLEN, E. A. A handbook of fist puppets.

A handbook of fist puppets.

The first cuckoo clock; a fairy story of the puppets, by Ruth Carlisle Nichols.

Dorothy Quentin (A); 4Aug72; R533788. QUENTIN, PATRICK, pseud. Puzzle for puppets, by Patrick Quentin, pseud.

Thus speaks the heart, which cold disgust invades, When time instructs and hope's enchantment fades; Through life's wide stage, from sages down to kings, The puppets move, as art directs the strings; Imperious beauty bows to sordid gold, Her smiles, whence heaven flows emanent, are sold; And affectation swells the entrancing tones, Which nature subjugates, and truth disowns.

It will easily be conceived that a highly ideal and romantic plot treated in the manner of the realistic farce of low life may offer great opportunities of satiric effect; but it must have made the courtly Sidney turn in his grave to see his gracious puppets debased into the vulgar rogues and trulls of the lower-class London drama.

" MISS PARLIAMENTINA PUTTING AWAY HER PUPPETS.]

All the people, be they illustrious personages or the common herd, who assist in the ceremony, are puppets a span long, rudely constructed and coarsely painted, but very faithful as to costume and manners, and most dexterously played upon by the invisible tamasha-wallahs, whom the curtain conceals.

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