The symphony began, and was soon afterwards followed by a faint kind of ventriloquial chirping, proceeding apparently from the deepest recesses of the interior of Miss Amelia Martin. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
a faint kind of ventriloquial chirping, proceeding apparently from the deepest recesses of the interior of Miss Amelia Martin. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Returning home after adventures, he realises the talking cat is a dupe, and the ventriloquial masterpiece is performed by none other than Thulsa Doom. ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)
There were seven species of grasshopper, almost half the Norfolk total, and they were all singing from one single patch of grassland – a melange of hissing and purring sounds of different pitches and varying lengths that was made all the more maze-like by the individual insects 'huge ventriloquial powers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Some of you may have seen Boingboing's amazing link to a Flickr user's pictures of the Vent Haven Museum of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, which bills itself as "the world's only museum of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia." ❋ Heather McDougal (2007)
To capture the distinctive qualities of such a sea of voices would be a challenge for any writer, but Matthiessen long ago proved his ventriloquial skills in the much-admired Far Tortuga (1975), a novel largely told with a Caribbean accent. ❋ Dirda, Michael (2008)
The Vent Haven Museum of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, bills itself as "the world's only museum of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia." ❋ Unknown (2005)
For the words which I intended the corpse to speak, I confidently depended upon my ventriloquial abilities; for their effect, I counted upon the conscience of the murderous wretch. ❋ Unknown (2006)
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. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. ❋ Curufea (2005)
‘Do not interrupt this ventriloquial necromanciss, my friend,’ it said in English. ❋ Unknown (2003)
These "characters," in the colloquial sense, are ventriloquial voices produced, as it were, against the will of the ventriloquist, who has become their dummy. ❋ McCarthy, Mary (1963)
They all knew about his ventriloquial powers now, and he had practised a few of his tricks in front of them. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1952)
This arrangement so distracted the audience from the true dramatic value of the scene that neither Mansfield's heroic carriage, nor his eye like Mars to threaten and command, nor the titanic resonance of his ventriloquial utterance, could atone for the mischief that was done. ❋ Clayton Hamilton (N/A)
In addition, every man, woman, and child in the audience who does not win a gift, will receive _absolutely free_, one of Professor O'Reilley's marvelous ventriloquial whistles. ❋ Herman Gastrell Seely (N/A)
During this act Professor O'Reilley uses one of his marvelous ventriloquial whistles and will explain its operation to the audience. ❋ Herman Gastrell Seely (N/A)
Charon, and was obliged, on that account, to make a ventriloquial request for a passage across the Styx; so that, in the morning, it was with genuine relief he returned the jewel to its owner and resumed his wonted meagerness of visage and useless deprivations. ❋ Charles M. Snyder (N/A)
