“You are lying,” roared Raskolnikov without restraint, “you lie, you damned punchinello!” and he rushed at Porfiry who retreated to the other door, not at all alarmed. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Punishment] Reference
Yet the public of Vienna are extravagantly fond of display in all its shapes; and punchinello, or a dance of dogs, would bring a head to every pane of glass, from the roof to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
He even discovers an Italian punchinello figuring in a Danish puppet-show; and as it was during the month of August that he found himself in Denmark, the weather was not such as to dispel his illusions. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Harlequin, punchinello, pantaloon, &c., have the same character in every different piece. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy] Reference
You are lying, roared Raskolnikov without restraint, you lie, you damned punchinello!. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter V. Part IV] Reference
Habituate yourself to show at seasonable times the punchinello which makes children run after you without knowing the distance they run. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2] Reference
"You are lying," roared Raskolnikov without restraint, "you lie, you damned punchinello!" and he rushed at Porfiry who retreated to the other door, not at all alarmed. From Wordnik.com. [Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English] Reference
Throughout the volumes of the Diary there are few things of which he speaks with franker and more enthusiastic delight than the enjoyment which he derives from punchinello. From Wordnik.com. [Among Famous Books] Reference
That ugly couple on the porch of the apple-sauce and wash-pitcher boarding-house -- the mother a mute, dwarfish punchinello, and the daughter a drab woman of forty with a mole, a wart. From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
She sat very rigid, far forward on the bench, compressed into a terrible corset which forced her breast and back into the humps of a punchinello; her legs hanging just short of the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Idol of Paris] Reference
I saw a punchinello on stilts wading among the rest; there were women flaunting feathers on their tousled heads, and moustachioed bullies who might have come from the ruck of some army on the march; pages, minions, magicians, astrologers, women's ruffians, castrati -- it was as if one of the wildest hours of the Piazzetta of Venice had been transported by witchcraft to this quiet place. From Wordnik.com. [The Fool Errant] Reference
Sir Samuel Morland built a fine room, anno 1667, the inside all of looking-glass, and fountains very pleasant to behold, which is much visited by strangers: it stands in the middle of the garden, covered with Cornish slate, on the point of which he placed a punchinello, very well carved, which held a dial, but the winds have demolished it. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827] Reference
Neapolitan punchinello, given the freedom of Paris, that "capital of curiosity," is at once wit, cynic, thinker, scholar, and buffoon. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
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