Then the Black Doctor, as blowed the bellows to the late ministerial organ, starts a fantoccini and collars our dialect. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841] Reference
The Governor himself is a puppet, his trusted men of resource and portfolio-holders are the veriest fantoccini; for the Governor's own clerk pulls the strings, frames the foreign policy, conducts, controls, adjusts difficulties, and maintains a right balance between the parties. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Who ever knew the men of the republic shout like so many Italian fantoccini pulled by wires!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference
In the long room the celebrated fantoccini exhibition, with groupes of quadrille dancers, enlivened the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
She was like a child seeing fantoccini for the first time: Margaret had seen the fantoccini dancing all her life. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times] Reference
We seem, however, rather to look on the play of fantoccini than the doings of men; in short, we feel here what we have felt more or less strongly throughout the whole work ” there is less intensity of life and consequently less of human interest in this than in the F minor Concerto. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
A rag-doll in a fantoccini-show. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891] Reference
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