A faint kind of ventriloquial chirping, proceeding apparently from the deepest recesses of the interior of Miss Amelia Martin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

‘Do not interrupt this ventriloquial necromanciss, my friend,’ it said in English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

They all knew about his ventriloquial powers now, and he had practised a few of his tricks in front of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Strange Bundle]

During this act Professor O'Reilley uses one of his marvelous ventriloquial whistles and will explain its operation to the audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

The Vent Haven Museum of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, bills itself as "the world's only museum of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 3, 2005 - July 9, 2005 Archives] Reference

But enough has been said to show by what arts of impersonation, and in what purely ventriloquial efforts I first saw my words on paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Portraits] Reference

Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [December 7th, 2005] Reference

Returning home after adventures, he realises the talking cat is a dupe, and the ventriloquial masterpiece is performed by none other than Thulsa Doom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

These "characters," in the colloquial sense, are ventriloquial voices produced, as it were, against the will of the ventriloquist, who has become their dummy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Déjeuner sur l'Herbe] Reference

During these studio days he studied legerdemain and ventriloquism, and became one of the most expert sleight-of-hand wizards and ventriloquial entertainers of his time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference

It was ventriloquial, and my ear refused to trace it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

Never was the ventriloquial quality more plainly exhibited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

'Do not interrupt this ventriloquial necromanciss, my friend,' it said in English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

A ventriloquial dialogue ensues, tending finally to the effect that weal only is available on the spur of the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference

A ventriloquial dialogue ensues, tending finally to the effect that weal only, is available on the spur of the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference

I'll eat my head if he is not a bad one, 'growled Mr. Grimwig, speaking by some ventriloquial power, without moving a muscle of his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

Darlington Manor when Cecilia died; and, wishing to startle me into dropping something which I held, made use of his ventriloquial powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in the Alcove] Reference

Traffic drifted busily and without sound behind the snow -- an excited pantomime that filled the air with misplaced, ventriloquial whispers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath] Reference

A little girl named Frazer, who appears to have had ventriloquial powers, was the principal cause of the noises, scratchings, &c., thought to be supernatural.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works] Reference

Gootes was in high spirits after his piece of chicanery and as we went down the street he practiced, quite unsuccessfully, a series of ventriloquial exercises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference

The sedge warbler sang in the thick reeds a mocking ventriloquial lay, which reminded me at times of the less pronounced parts of our yellow-breasted chat's song.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography]

This call is uttered in a hollow, bass tone, and can be heard a long distance in still weather; it is difficult to follow up, for it has a very ventriloquial effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [III. The Grouse of the Northern Cattle Plains] Reference

If we should by any chance be brought within earshot of that idol on the opposite side of the compound, I shall try the ventriloquial dodge again, among other things.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of El Dorado] Reference

Whilst one cannot accept the ventriloquial theory, there can be no doubt of the extraordinary cunning in hiding, and noiseless speed on foot of these birds when disturbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call Of The South 1908] Reference

In other words, by some ventriloquial tricks, he appears to accompany himself, as if his voice split up, a part forming a low guttural sound, and a part a shrill nasal sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Sunshine] Reference

Is it conceivable even that any such cry as we heard could, in this day and generation, ring through such an assemblage, unless it came with ventriloquial power from his own lips?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in the Alcove] Reference

For I knew that if your ventriloquial trick had been discovered, it would have been all up with us. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of El Dorado] Reference

I’ll eat my head if he is not a bad one,’ growled Mr. Grimwig, speaking by some ventriloquial power, without moving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

I'll eat my head if he is not a bad one, "growled Mr. Grimwig, speaking by some ventriloquial power, without moving a muscle of his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

Young Vox, the vain and ventriloquial bore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890] Reference

He is endowed with great ventriloquial powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914] Reference

It had a vague, distant, ventriloquial character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers] Reference

With ventriloquial vehemence defied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891] Reference

A strange ventriloquial effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp] Reference