Thesaurus / marionette
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How did anyone know we were going to have a marionette show?
GRACE HARLOWE'S PLEBE YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOLJESSIE GRAHAM FLOWER
You do not seem to be aware of the identity of the marionette who has just been killed.
CASTELLINARIAHENRY FESTING JONES
If all these fail how can a marionette be expected to succeed?
CASTELLINARIAHENRY FESTING JONES
He held by the hand a little French girl, dark, small, looking almost like a marionette in her slim tailor-made costume.
MR. GREX OF MONTE CARLOE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
Mr. Chamberlain had caught the infection, and was salaaming across the world to Mr. Kruger, like a marionette out of a box.
A WOMAN'S PART IN A REVOLUTIONNATALIE HARRIS HAMMOND
I was brought back upright by the strong hands behind me, which steered me like a marionette.
LITTLE BROTHERCORY DOCTOROW
I still couldn't walk -- when I stood, my legs gave way like a stringless marionette's.
LITTLE BROTHERCORY DOCTOROW
This time he brought a foreign penny and wanted to know why they had refused to take it at the marionette theatre.
CASTELLINARIAHENRY FESTING JONES
She made him think of a painted marionette, so maintained were her poses, so unreal was her make up.
THE SHADOWARTHUR STRINGER
Puppet, pup′et, n. a small doll or image moved by wires in a show: a marionette: one who acts just as another tells him.
WORDS RELATED TO MARIONETTE
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