Robinson was a worthy gentleman who happened to come out publicly on the side of a political wire-puller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans] Reference

The committee also accused the United States of being a "wire-puller and chieftain of the incident," according to state media.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senior Chinese official meets North Korea's Kim] Reference

O hero amongst men, as a wooden doll is made to move its limbs by the wire-puller, so are creatures made to work by the Lord of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

"Humph! I wouldn't vote for him," sneered the wire-puller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat] Reference

He must not be a mere general, a mere lawyer, a mere wire-puller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics] Reference

Lordship, was the wire-puller in this case, and supplied this very illustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fielding] Reference

The result of "coaching" for the occasion by some wire-puller was painfully apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campaign of Chancellorsville] Reference

Monroe gave him a piece of paper, and the wire-puller began to make his calculations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat] Reference

The committee also accused the US of being a "wire-puller and chieftain of the incident,".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Mathers was simply the best organiser and wire-puller I ever met in the course of my life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885] Reference

Wen I get big, Mr. Diry, I guess I'll hire myself out for a perfesshunal pollytickal wire-puller.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885] Reference

The ballot alone effectively liberates the quiet citizen from the tyranny of the shouter and the wire-puller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberalism] Reference

Men spoke of him as a clever wire-puller who could manufacture a spurious public sentiment in his own favour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885] Reference

Quixote had been dedicated to his Lordship, was the wire-puller in this case, and supplied this very illustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fielding] Reference

The atmosphere is too political and I imagine Mrs. Green to be a bit of a wire-puller, though I believe a nice woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

Don Quixote had been dedicated to his Lordship, was the wire-puller in this case, and supplied this very illustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fielding]

"What do you mean by your ticket?" demanded Kendall, who was rather confused by the technical terms of the wire-puller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat] Reference

This friend was one William B. Lewis, a man in whom all the skilful arts of the modern wire-puller seemed to be born full-grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

Place, therefore, acted as a most efficient wire-puller, but had no ambition to leave his shop to make speeches on the hustings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference

Forney was a mighty wire-puller, if not exactly before the Lord, at least before the elections, and he opined that I had secured the success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs] Reference

Republic -- Public Prosecutor -- State Attorney; in a court of the third class, it's true, because he's not a wire-puller, because he hasn't played the political game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux] Reference

Self first, personal friends second, party third, and country fourth, is the order of considerations in the mind of the office-seeker, the wire-puller, the corrupt politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Ethics] Reference

You're the fine-haired little wire-puller, and it's all in your hands. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush] Reference

Oh, Julie, you're a darling -- but you're rather a wire-puller, aren't you? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference

"It's only that I so dislike Grace's ineradicable idea that I am a wire-puller.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit and the Wild Woman] Reference

But this is the testimony of an Illinois political wire-puller to Lincoln: "He was one of the shrewdest politicians in the State.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln] Reference

There was a woman wire-puller at the back of these matters as a rule, he believed -- that sort of thing, perhaps, was Mrs. Saumarez's little hobby.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Mayor's Parlour] Reference

The wire-puller was playing a part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat] Reference

So the nimble wire-puller slips in.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference

He was a wire-puller, a political heeler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Country: Its Dangers and Its Needs] Reference

281 wire-puller, 98 wiseheimer, 199 wish, v.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mencken, H] Reference