This dummy the demon is supposed to mistake for the sick man, who consequently recovers.
Then they laid the decapitated dummy down and covered it over, and the women began to mourn and wail.
Thus the Alfoors of Minahassa, in Celebes, will sometimes transport a sick man to another house, while they leave on his bed a dummy made up of a pillow and clothes.
In reality they let him slip away, while they cut off the head of a dummy which had been adroitly substituted for him.
After the third cast he jumped off his horse, freed the dummy from the noose, and carelessly set the apparatus upright very near a small evergreen tree bordering the drive.
A dummy was constructed of bags wrapped around a pole set in a heavy wooden base.
However, the following day he did take his jumping bar and his roping dummy to the new hide-out.
The finding of this dummy trench will put a crimp in the Heinies' plans.
The conversation had been carried on in the faintest whispers, and after the first hurried examination of the dummy trench there had been no light.
Men were sent out with dummyfigures to a nullah about 300 yards from the Turkish line.
The next night "B" Company undertook the unenviable task of bringing in the dummy figures and found the ridge on which they lay occupied by the enemy in several places.
Near camps "simili-camps" (Dummy Camps) are to be pitched in order to attract the attention of aircraft.
More than all, we made away with the dummy child, broke up the parcel, resolved it into its component parts, a small pillow and many wraps, all of which we put away in the same convenient receptacle.
Philpotts and Victorine, my sister's maid, were also made up on a similar pattern, and a second baby was built up as a dummy that would have deceived any one.
It will be your business to make your way to her with the dummy the instant the train stops.
I find myself in a specially amiable humor just now because, this morning, down at the foundry, we blew twenty-seven dummy soldiers into fragments with a gun which formerly destroyed only thirteen.
Ben spoke quickly--already he heard the commotion of Dummy lurching up from the forecastle with his monkey, and he was dizzy with the first full understanding of what had taken place.
Break me in half with one hand, Dummy could, grinning like a dog the while he done it.
Tom Ball and Dummy and Jack were gaudily bleeding from minor wounds, but the Diana had lost nothing.
After him came Manuel andDummy and French Jack, these three guided by Shawn's hand to make their marks, and he wrote their names for them with amiable flourishes.
Several times Shawn had robbed small interisland vessels--trivial occasions when Ben was not tied below but allowed to remain on deck with Manuel andDummy and the monkey.
She must have died, and Dummy must have known the moment--yet up there at the bow Dummy was still trying to support her head and make it live.
The creature Dummy was doing most of this, as Ben knew from the moaning slobber at his ear.
Dummy had turned automatically, stunned, to watch the arc of her falling.
The arm surged upward at the touch, a motion like brushing at a fly--Dummy did not look at the man, only at the struggle in the water, too hypnotized by it even to moan or shake his bulging head.
When Ben last glimpsed her, he and Manuel and Dummy were employed in holystoning the deck of Artemis, and Manuel laughed to see her, and nudged Dummy so that he might enjoy it too, even though Judah Marsh was standing by with a belt.
Plantagenet and Wooton were old friends, and the latter knew that Plantagenet would try to win with the dummychips even though he would be $1,000 loser if he did.
But Dummy had a tongue and could use it, and his hearing was as keen as anybody's.
The dummy would have gone under had his wife not arrived on the scene with the eldest son and the rest of the family.
The flood also took half a mile of fencing from along the creek-bank, and landed it in a bend, three miles down, on a dummy selection, where it was confiscated.
What could that have to do with the shimmer of a dummy pistol, scratched upon whose golden surface Herrick once more confronted the initial "C"?
I got a covered laundry cart, and I brought a dummy with me to substitute for the child.
The block was the dummy by which the form of Sisera was supposed to be typified.
By the light of the moon just peeping above the horizon she dropped the ashes of Miss Dummy into the placid water, and to the singing of a comic dirge, composed by one of the Orioles, was rowed silently back to shore.
Miss Dummy stood revealed, an effigy arrayed in an old suit belonging to one of the Pioneers, even to the staff and knapsack, surmounting a pile of dried twigs and brush.
Illustration: She dropped the ashes of Miss Dummy into the placid water.
But the dummy answered: "I can no longer move, for I am grown so fat.
And the husband coming in, harpooned that dummywife with his great bird-spear.
She was firing at the dummy in order that later she might make sure of hitting the living man.
Both dummy and living man were profoundly ignorant of her moving principle.
Dummy being blind and deaf, his partner is not liable to any penalty for an error whence he can gain no advantage.
The Laws of the game do not differ from those of Dummy Whist.
The partner of Dummy always takes first deal of each game.
It will be noticed that, if the player of Dummy fulfils his contract, his reward increases as in ordinary Bridge with the value of the declaration.
In order to play Ecarte well, take a pack of cards, and deal out the hands against an imaginary or dummy adversary; remember those hands under the heading Jeux de regle, and then note how the hand can be best played to secure the point.
Dummy is not liable to the penalty for a revoke, as his adversaries see his cards.
Dummy is not liable to any penalty for a revoke, as his adversaries see his cards.
Rubbers are not played, each game being settled for separately, and the three players take Dummy in rotation, game by game.
The head could be turned to one side or the other, as he pleased, and the hinges of the arms and legs allowed him to place the dummy in any position he desired.
For 80 unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy -- which you most certainly are.
Next morning, when he looked at his work again, Tip saw he had forgotten to give the dummy a neck, by means of which he might fasten the pumpkinhead to the body.
As for the King, his business is to be a Dummy; and as Dummy he must remain.
Only by a complete change of Government could the cruelly-increasing taxation be put down; and if Government was to be changed, why not the dummy figure-head of Government as well?
Ten minutes later, as Mockaby was passing down the dummy track, a whistle was blown on the river bank, a high yell was raised, a pistol shot quickly followed and he started for the sound of them on a run.
He saw the smoke of the little dummy and, as he thundered over the bridge of the North Fork, he saw that it was just about to pull out and he waved his hat and shouted imperiously for it to wait.
The same little dummy wheezed him into the dead little town.
How that had been placed upon the dummy puzzled me, for the designation I had written could not be known until the envelope, with its precious contents, had been filched from my pocket.
I had expected him to be eager to further probe the mystery, and try and elucidate the manner in which Dudley had manufactured the dummy and exchanged it for the secret convention.
Remember the dummy palmed off upon me, and the fact that an exact copy was transmitted to St Petersburg.
Suddenly rising from his chair he unlocked his great safe and took therefrom the dummy envelope.
You will remember that the dummy envelope you took from your safe bore an imitation of your private seal?
Because it was not with that seal that the dummy envelope was secured," he answered slowly, at the same time handing me the two impressions, and inviting me to compare them.
It was at that moment, having stolen the document from me, he glanced at its register number and imitated it upon the dummy with which Ella had provided him.
Black wax, I remembered, had been used to secure the dummy envelope.
The seal I picked up from among the contents of Ogle's pockets was not the identical one used to secure the dummy envelope," I said quickly.
Newman built a huge dummy cow fifteen feet in height of papier-mache.
Before Penny could say more, Harley Schirr came to the desk, spreading a dummy sheet for the editor to inspect.
Schirr swept the dummy sheet from the desk, crumpling it in his hand.
With furious efforts he tore the dummy loose from its moorings, whirled it into the middle of the yard, where in a towering rage he knelt upon it, bit and tore its heart out.
He made an excellent dummy keeper, stood it up, and tied it fast against the fence inside the yard of our very large and savage male Grevy Zebra.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dummy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
