fantoccini

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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 Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Gozzi, Carlo

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 Johnson, Samuel

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 Murray, David Christie

But to do Mr. Davis justice, he did not make his fantoccini suffer if he pulled the wires the wrong way.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.