In order to cover the features of any modern ventriloquial entertainment, I will here give the rules for the two voices required, with an example of the dialogue in each case.
L'Abbe La Chapelle, issued 1772, contain descriptions of the ventriloquial achievements of Baron Mengen at Vienna; and those of M.
A series of descending, loud, clear whistles with a ventriloquial effect.
Its song has the sweetness and purity of tone of that of the Wood Thrush, and is, perhaps, more varied, but it is not nearly as powerful, and has a ventriloquial effect.
We have next to deal with ventriloquial perspective, which appertains to the gradual increase or decrease in the loudness of a sound as it approaches or recedes.
As a final step in polyphony, the learner should practise the ventriloquial treatment of noises.
And here let us point out that, although the best ventriloquial effects can only be produced by the mature voice, it is well to begin practising at an early age, in order to make the vocal organs strong and flexible.
That put an end to the ventriloquial sport, and the remainder of the short time allowed for the visit of the cadets was spent in more quiet fashion, desultory talk and the singing of songs.
And one evening or the other—both if you like—you may bring some of your mates with you, and perhaps Cousin Ronald and you yourself may be able to entertain them with some exertion of your ventriloquial powers.
Mr. Lilburn,” said Max, “I have been telling some of my comrades of your ventriloquial powers and they are extremely desirous to witness their exercise.
During this act Professor O'Reilley uses one of his marvelous ventriloquial whistles and will explain its operation to the audience.
They rank among our finest songsters, with ventriloquial and imitative powers added to sweetness of tone.
Probably his ventriloquial powers are cultivated not for popular entertainment, but to lure intruders away from his nest.
In other words, by some ventriloquial tricks, he appears to accompany himself, as if his voice split up, a part forming a low guttural sound, and a part a shrill nasal sound.
All the crow tribe, from the blue jay up, are capable of certain low ventriloquial notes that have peculiar cadence and charm.
There was a negro among them who was the whetstone of their wit, and a Frenchman who varied his tearful narrative of the misfortune that had brought him low, with ventriloquial performances and anecdotes of self-made Yankee millionaires.
Lady Tasker addressed the bracing Highgate air in one of those expressionless and semi-ventriloquial asides that, especially in a mixed company, always made her ladyship very well worth sitting next to.
One Louis Brabant turned his ventriloquialtalent to profitable account.
The crakes, however, when thus localised deceived no one by their supposed ventriloquial powers; therefore it seems clear that the deception is caused by their rapid changes of position.
It may be so; but even without special powers of that kind, ventriloquial effects would, I think, be produced by the peculiar habits of the bird.
Those who have seen any professors of the ventriloquial art now living must have been struck by the apparent ease with which the effects are produced.
Thus the simplest cause of ventriloquial effect is produced by standing with your back to the audience and your face to the door.
These two voices are in reality the only true ventriloquial voices.
Is it conceivable even that any such cry as we heard could, in this day and generation, ring through such an assemblage, unless it came with ventriloquial power from his own lips?
The ventriloquist's deceptions must be well practised and frequently rehearsed, but he must also well prepare and study the discourse of which hisventriloquial powers will be but the illustration.
One of the commonest and easiest of ventriloquial deceptions is that of making a man's voice issue as it were from the chimney.
Those possessed of ventriloquial powers have the opportunity of considerably annoying their fellow mortals if so inclined, but on the other hand they have also the means of affording them very considerable amusement and entertainment.
Heard near at hand it is singularly clear and almost bell-like, though ventriloquial in its elusiveness and difficult to locate, for as you approach, it ceases and is taken up by another a short distance away.
The ventriloquial power any one with a fair range of voice and patient practice may acquire.
The etymology of the word Ventriloquism gives an incorrect idea of the art, as it is based upon the old notion that the ventriloquial voice really proceeded from the stomach.
Everybody was glad, for those cousins were esteemed good company by one and all, and Ned was known to be always greatly entertained by Cousin Ronald's use of his ventriloquial powers.
If we should by any chance be brought within earshot of that idol on the opposite side of the compound, I shall try the ventriloquial dodge again, among other things.
For I knew that if your ventriloquial trick had been discovered, it would have been all up with us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ventriloquial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
