The Young Man reappears, carrying two dismal old dummies with battered papier-mache heads, and preternaturally mobile jaws.
The Ventriloquist perseveres a little longer, though even his own belief in the dummiesseems to be shaken, and at length he gives them up as hopeless, and carries them off ignominiously, one under each arm.
He tried to recover his balance, but could not, and over he went, bringing down two of the dummies on top of him.
It looked for all the world like football practice and the men went after the dummies as the tacklers used to do at Soldiers' Field of an afternoon when the coach had pinned blue sweaters and white "Y's" on the straw men.
The men with the cold steel were charging into dummiesmarked with circles to represent spots where hits were likely to be vital.
They made even the most routine sort of a drill a game, and whether the men were bayoneting dummies or shooting at tin cans the little Britishers kept them at top speed by stirring up rivalry between the various organizations.
One can imagine the delight with which they would put some of our dummies to bed after our departure, and as we left we heard their efforts in the house to cover our exit with the noise of a sing-song.
If no alarm occurred before daylight, they were to remove the dummies after these had served their purpose at the 4 A.
The bedroom was the one in which Old Man, Grunt, and Johnny slept, and those in the room now set to work to make up the dummies in the three beds.
Without waiting for any reply to his proposal, he glided around the edge of the opening: and, rapidly dismantling the dummies one after the other, he returned towards the horse with their ravished vestments.
Dummies in libraries generally take the form of "Hume and Smollett's History of England" and other works not likely to tempt the general reader.
Madge and Letty did not give the dummies more than a passing glance, till suddenly they noticed that Bessie had stayed behind.
It's something like Madame Tussaud's--such a lot of wax dummiesat the door.
So are marionette-plays, in which seemingly naïve but knowing rogues make used-up old ballad dummies babble like babies or idiots.
The use of this attack against dummies or in fencing is prohibited.
The approach will be made against thedummies both in quick time and double time.
Dummies should be constructed in such a manner as to permit the execution of attacks without injury to the point or edge of the bayonet or to the barrel or stock of the rifle.
The horses with the dummies upon their backs now started at a sharp gallop after the one rode by Doc Clancy.
As the moon was now covered with heavy clouds for the first time that night, Clancy was not observed at all, and his horse was led away with those who had the dummies on their backs.
If them ain't dummieson them horses I'm a living sinner!
They belong to a nation of people who seem to be civilized, from what we seen of 'em, and were rigged with the dummies when we came across 'em.
In this case the man who led the mounted dummies had been killed in some manner, and thus it was that Clancy and his associate had discovered the horses, who had returned to the gate in the huge wall.
Hence the savage resorts to the device of making up of dummies or effigies which he puts in the way of the ghost, hoping that the dull-witted spirit will mistake them for real people and so leave the survivors in peace.
Practice of putting updummies to divert the attention of ghosts or demons from living people.
Dummies to avert attention of ghosts or demons, ii.
The story itself, however, is probably devoid of foundation, since the practice of putting up dummies to divert the attention of ghosts or demons from living people is not uncommon.
He made three dummies this time, two were placed as before and the third he stood on the bell so that it might prevent it ringing.
The clergyman, as his first experiment did not succeed, made two dummies the next day, which were exactly alike; one he placed in the same position as before at the door of the tower, the other near the bell ropes.
An' they do it legal because they own the dummies that makes the laws.
But, at the proper time, the dummies and the old auto would be substituted.
The car containing the dummiesstarted off at a fast rate.
If it runs too long the public may see the dummies too plainly.
The dummies will, of course, not condescend to reply, and then--but what matters?
Suits which looked worn and glossless while they were still new, flabbily draped on dummies like corpses with painted cheeks.
When this had cleared away, the dummies on the left of the gun had vanished, and the gun itself appeared to have been damaged, as it was leaning over on one side.
He thought of how thosedummies had all been riddled by the bullets when a single shrapnel burst in front of them.
So a second company, officered bydummies of McKibben's selection, was organized.
If you vill only look at dose peautiful suits vot I haf for twelf dollar--" The Jew got no further, for with a strong push Dick sent him staggering among the dummies in front of his store.
I mean these dummiesall over the place, and the Gels--" "What dummies?
Let him do the work, and then jump in and put up ourdummies to locate all the land he can't take hold of.
All go down into the last trench together, with a good loud yell, point of the bayonet level with the toe, and land on the dummies in the bottom, stabbing as they land.
In this trench prone dummies are placed, one per yard.
On each of the swinging dummiesone of the seven movements of the manual is used; a long or short point is used on each prone dummy.
To simulate fighting conditions, a frame is then arranged in which dummies are slung on ropes passed over pullies, and so manipulated that as the man withdraws his bayonet from one dummy another swings at, him from a different direction.
The hairdresser rushes out to meet her, but d'rectly she sees the dummies she changes colour and falls a tremblin' wiolently.
Have the dummies screwed up in a piece of paper, which hold in the left hand, and cover with a precisely similar piece of paper, open.
First thing I did was to release my wardrobe and dummiesfrom embargo.
He was counting the ties in the direction of New York, having left the dummieshe uses in his stunts on the stage for meals and lodging.
They knew what a good thing was when they saw it and their generous approbation of the flood film and of Hal Vincent's ventriloquial acts with his dummies made up for the lack of numbers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dummies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
