The weak and dissolute Mahmoud, the deposer of Soojah, proved no more than a puppet in the hands of his Vizier, Futteh Khan, the head of the great Barukzye tribe.
The iron rod r, which is firmly fastened in the puppet, slides through mortices at mm, and guides the puppet in a straight line.
This pinion carries with it a screw s, which draws forward the puppet p, in which the graver of chisel g slides without shake.
His body was jerking like a puppetof a marionette display, actuated by unseen strings.
And convention said: "Thou shalt not seem to suffer; thou shalt pass by serene and unmoved; thou shalt dance and sing and parade in park or ball room; thou art my puppet and I have nought to do with thy soul.
The slave for once rebelled against the taskmaster: the puppet refused to dance to the ever-wearying monotonous tune.
All that made the crown worth wearing was at stake, for if Fox's party had obtained a majority at the general election, George for the rest of his life would have become a mere puppet in their hands.
James was only twelve when the earl of Morton was driven from the regency, and for some time after he can have been no more than a puppet in the hands of intriguers and party leaders.
Once in a lifetime, chance will thus snap the toils of a man's making; and it is instructive to see the poor puppet adore the power that connives at his evasion.
This lively puppet performed with surprising skill on the harpsichord, giving the company, among other novelties, selections from the maestro Piccini's latest opera and a concerto of the German composer Gluck.
He felt himself no more than a puppet dancing to the tune of Parini's satire, a puny doll condemned, as the strings of custom pulled, to feign the gestures of immortal passions.
From your own lips I shall soon know whether I am a puppet or a public man.
There he sat in the gloomy comfort of the room, a puppet in the power of great forces that cared nothing for family or class or creed, but moved, machine-like, with dread processes to inscrutable ends.
Then came the most popular of all puppet plays, in which a splendid puppet fully ten inches high, with fixed, staring expression, began good-naturedly to deceive the smaller puppets.
As the first simple-minded puppet gave his wealth to the arch deceiver, Pappina cried out: "Don't give it to him!
A puppet who refused to give up his money was beaten on the back till dead.
His bad temper showed even in the puppet performance.
As Filippo led Pappina away, the owner of the puppet show muttered something to the pale-faced woman who had passed the hat, and thrusting the little stage toward her, darted off after the homeward-bound children.
The first part of the puppet performance was just ended.
After their marriage he had turned his stock of stories to account by setting up as a puppet showman.
A Controller never did anything directly; their dirty work was done by someone else--a puppet under their mental control.
If, on the other hand, Sir Lewis had actually been under the control of another telepath, any probing into the mind of the puppet would have betrayed Houston to the real Controller.
Tell me, can the act of thatpuppet of the Emperor make an evil act a good one?
This establishes clearly, either that Victor is a fool, or else that he is a puppet of the Emperor, since he is so ready to accept what Alexander refuses.
Who has ever called him the Imperial puppet as often as you?
The weak mind of the old earl was as a puppet in the hands of his bold kinsman.
And why should my poor puppetbe the only one to know himself and perish for it?
I've made many a puppet since I've been a witch, but methinks this is the finest of them all.
Amongst the Wends the last sheaf, made into a puppet and called the Old Man, is hung in the hall till next year's Old Man is brought in.
Thus the Maize-mother was represented by a puppet made of stalks of maize, dressed in full female attire; and the Indians believed that "as mother, it had the power of producing and giving birth to much maize.
Much in the same way an Australian medicine-man will sometimes bring the lost soul of a sick man into a puppet and restore it to the patient by pressing the puppet to his breast.
On Shrove Tuesday the Slovenes of Oberkrain drag a straw puppet with joyous cries up and down the village; then they throw it into the water or burn it, and from the height of the flames they judge of the abundance of the next harvest.
She has then to make a puppet, sometimes in female, sometimes in male form, out of the corn; the puppet is occasionally dressed with clothes, often with flowers and ribbons only.
Attired in mourning, which they wear the whole day, they make a puppet of straw, clothe it in a white shirt, and give it a broom in one hand and a scythe in the other.
Even if they noticed them, they probably never dreamed of any connection between the puppet of corn-stalks on the sunny stubble-field and the marble divinity in the shady coolness of the temple.
Singing songs and pursued by urchins throwing stones, they carry the puppet to the village boundary, where they tear it in pieces.
In other parts of North Germany, the last sheaf, or the puppet made out of it, is called the Child, the Harvest Child, etc.
At Marksuhl, near Eisenach, the puppet formed out of the last sheaf is itself called "the Poor Woman.
Then a puppet is made out of it, dressed with clothes belonging to the farmer, and adorned with a crown and a blue or white scarf.
VICE, the buffoon of old moralities; some kind of machinery for moving a puppet (Gifford).
It is of course unnecessary to add that our puppet and our pensionary was, in return for this service, to hand over to us the legs of his throne, the keys of his kingdom, and a good deal of the contents of his treasury.
According to the Greek engineer, there were several kinds of puppet shows.
Philo, of Byzantium, and Heron, of Alexandria, to whom we always have to have recourse when we desire accurate information as to the mechanic arts of antiquity, both composed treatises on puppet shows.
Why, I understood he was a mere puppetin the hands of the two Mathers.
They serve as advance posts of the Soviet Union--precedent for the creation of puppet states within China.
Without firm hsien governments beneath them, the Japanese puppet regimes are foredoomed to failure.
As opposed to popular opinion, the Ustashe were not a puppet regime, far from it.
