puppet show

Example Sentences

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It is the same that is quoted in the chapter of the Puppet-show in Don Quixote.

From Mediaeval Tales by Morley, Henry

If they cannot forbear the Play-house, I would recommend Tragedy to them, rather than Comedy; and should think the Puppet-show much safer for them than the Opera, all the while the Sun is in Gemini.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

For among his Latin poems in the Oxford 'Musæ Anglicanæ' are eighty or ninety lines of resonant Latin verse upon 'Machinæ Gesticulantes, 'anglice' A Puppet-show.'

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Lysander slain at a Puppet-show on the third of September.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

In the meantime Foote's Primitive Puppet-show, entitled the Handsome Housemaid, or Piety on Pattens, had been brought out at the Haymarket on the 15th of February.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington