19 Verbs to Use for the Word puppet

Incompetent writers of fiction today often adopt the Morality principle in making their characters unnaturally good or bad, mere puppets who do not develop along the line of their own emotional prompting, but are moved by machinery in the author's hands.

And in the midst, what affected me more than everything else, a tiny puppet of wood my father had hewn her with his knife, and which she had dressed as a queen with red ribbons and crown of tinselah, so long agoand in such happy days.

* Dynamic wealth depends upon the number of articulations brought into play; the fewer articulations an actor uses, the more closely he approaches the puppet.

"You think that we ought not to break in two this puppet which is called Public Opinion, and sit upon it." EUG.

" "I should have been most happy, madam," returned Peregrine; "but unfortunately I am six months from Paris, and besides, his honour might object lest a French doll should contaminate the Dutch puppets.

"He has dislocated all his puppets, strewed the ground with the débris of his fancies, and he is not yet content,'What do you want, you wretched baby?''I want the moon!'

Ah, the gods of wood and stone Can a single saint dethrone, But the people who shall aid 'Gainst the puppets they have made? First they teach and then obey: 'Tis the Burden of the Day.

You've got enough puppets on the stage without a niece of mine ever being there.

The Oedipus Rex, indeedwhich meets us at every turnis founded on an absolutely astounding series of coincidences; but here the conception of fate comes in, and we vaguely figure to ourselves some malignant power deliberately pulling the strings which guide its puppets into such abhorrent tangles.

He seems always on the eve of knocking his puppets to pieces.

We are living, moving puppets.

" MISS PARLIAMENTINA PUTTING AWAY HER PUPPETS.]

216; Margaret's Ghost, iv. 229, n. 4; Marlborough, Life of, undertakes the, iii. 194; never begins it, iii. 386; receives money for it, v. 175, n. 2; Pope's Essay on Man, iii. 402; 'prettiest drest puppet,' v. 174; Scotch accent, never caught in a, ii. 159; only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend, ib., n. 3; Warburton, attacks, i. 329.

Young people with a stiff collar, beardless sublieutenants, coxcombs with red hands, swells with white cuffs, little heads of wax and little souls of cardboard, run up, ran up, ye pretty puppets.

Thackeray is present to his readers, indeed, not as the manager who pulls the strings and sets the puppets in motion, but as an interpreter who directs the reader's attention to the events on which he lays stress, and makes them a starting-point for his own moralising.

At the first glance we fly it in dismay; A very lumber-room, a rubbish-hole; At best a sort of mock-heroic play, With saws pragmatical, and maxims sage, To suit the puppets and their mimic stage.

He testified in behalf of woman, the puppet of a tyrant who repudiated her upon the most frivolous pretext, and declared that in the beginning God made them male and female; the one husband for the one wife.

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.

Thus I feel a nascent sense of some muscular action while I simultaneously witness a puppet of my braina part of myselfperform that action, and I assume a mental attitude appropriate to the occasion.

19 Verbs to Use for the Word  puppet