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Usage examples of marionette.

Bothan Ver said, hauling in the mainsheet, nail-bitten fingers directing the rope precisely, delicately, like a puppeteer pulling on the strings of his marionette.

It may be that all those who seek to serve the Theophany, and perhaps even all those who allege to serve him, though they appear to us to differ so widely and indeed to wage a species of war upon one another, are yet linked, like the marionettes of the boy and the man of wood that I once saw in a dream, and who, although they appeared to combat each other, were nevertheless under the control of an unseen individual who operated the strings of both.

CHAPTER IV Having given her luggage ticket to a porter, Domini passed out of the station followed by Suzanne, who looked and walked like an exhausted marionette.

His triangularis muscle pulls his lips until marionette lines run down from each corner of his mouth.

In black and white, through the occasional fuzz and snow, we watched Captain Kangaroo, The Friendly Giant and the horrendous marionettes, Canadian Randy Dandy and American Howdy Doody.

There, clacking and chattering in the midst of the fire was a hellish and jerking skeleton, dangling above the flames like a marionette.

Especially should one arouse them to such living interest while they are still young and plastic, before they have crystallised and hardened into the conventional marionettes of polite society.

A distended and ominous shadow, as tortured as that of a fright figure in a fun house, rose along the landing wall: the puppetmaster and its decomposing marionette laboring stiffly but doggedly toward the top of the first flight of stairs.

The green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters glow like lighting rods, and James Potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut .

He was like a vituperative marionette, a vicious Charlie McCarthy.

And we had dinner and then after a bit we went on to the Marionette - there was a rumour it was going to be raided, but nothing happened - it was just moribund, and we drank a bit and then we went on to the Bullring and that was even deader, and then we went to a coffee stall, and then we went to a fried-fish place, and then we thought we'd go and breakfast with Angela's uncle and see if he'd be shocked, but he wasn't - only bored, and then we sort of fizzled home.

Moving was like trying to operate a marionette from the inside -- I swayed and pitched from side to side, using a line of parked cars as a combination handrail and crash barrier.

Do I mention predestination to excuse my failure, or did inexorable fate really grab me like a marionette and frogmarch me through the stations of some cosmic ritual?

He sat a hideless and rickety saddle astride the dead man's horse and he rode slumped and tottering and soon his legs and arms were dangling and he jostled along in his sleep like a mounted marionette.

Inside, Zander comes to rest among the fruits of a lifelong collec tor's passion -- Balinese dance masks, demonic Chinese marionettes, colored morris dancers -- without damming his flow of speech.