fantoccini
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Who work the contemptible fantoccini who gesticulate to the Ephesian hubbub of 'greatness' I neither know nor care, but it is simply out of credence that their motions are spontaneous.
From My Contemporaries In Fiction by David Christie Murray
It happened that he went with sir Joshua Reynolds and Goldsmith, to see the fantoccini, which were exhibited, some years ago, in or near the Haymarket.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Samuel Johnson
Who ever knew the men of the republic shout like so many Italian fantoccini pulled by wires!
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper
Some scenes, written under the high pressure of dramatic œstrum, stir tears by their poignancy, by the accents of grief and anguish on the lips of fantoccini.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
Sharp unexpected touches evoke humanity in the fantoccini of his wayward art.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
