One of the most celebrated ventriloquists was a grocer of St. Germains, one St. Gilles; but he applied the faculty he possessed to benevolent purposes.
Ventriloquists must not be confounded with persons who by means of skilful mechanisms, creatures with movable fauces, etc.
These ventriloquists have likewise possessed such power over their faces and figures, that, aided by rapid changes of dress, their personal identity has scarcely been recognised among the range of personations.
It has lately been shown, that some ventriloquists have acquired by practice the power of exercising the veil of the palate in such a manner, that, by raising or depressing it, they dilate or contract the inner nostrils.
In the nineteenth century, we are told by Sir David Brewster, that ventriloquists made great additions to their art.
Ventriloquists are a better order of jugglers than the Incombustibles.
The man left the car also and followed the girl, and it is needless to say that the two ventriloquists also followed on a double trail.
The ventriloquists also lay off, ready to be at hand in case of emergency.
Detectives disguise their appearance, but ventriloquists disguise their voices, and make them represent at will all manner of individualities, in the human or animal.
The ventriloquists and detective came together and held a few moments' conversation, and it was decided that Ike should steal into the house, as he was the one most experienced in that sort of work.
The two ventriloquists finished their game and walked over to a table where two experts were playing a great game in presence of quite a crowd of witnesses.
The two ventriloquists proceeded down to the old house and arrived just in time to meet another embarrassment.
The two men sauntered away and the two ventriloquists followed them.
The ventriloquists stole up close, and both being lithe and active they were able to secure a position very near where the two men stood, and they heard one of them ask: "Are you sure it's dead easy?
He was standing near the edge of the water, for the ventriloquists had purposely changed their own position so as to draw him down in that direction.
In reply to his words to them, the two ventriloquistsgave him a laugh.
Our readers will bear in mind that both the ventriloquists were under a disguise that permitted them to play the role they were working at that moment.
A little way back we repudiated the idea that ventriloquists threw their voices anywhere; and we return now to the subject to explain away the delusion, or rather the ignorance out of which the idea has grown.
In many of the feats of ventriloquism the performer contrives, under some pretence or other, to conceal his face, but ventriloquists of great distinction, such as M.
The ventriloquists of the nineteenth century made great additions to their art, and the performances of M.
It is a curious circumstance that Captain Lyon found among the Esquimaux of Igloolik ventriloquists of no mean skill.
Some folks may fear that these practical lessons will produceventriloquists by the score.
Ventriloquists who employ a whole family of ingeniously contrived figures--we have seen some of these dance a jig--should get them to talk by machinery as well.
We have even seen ventriloquists carry this eye deception so far as to have a few shavings to scatter as they proceed, and a piece of wood to fall when the sawing is ended.
It is the voice by which all ventriloquists make a supposed person speak from a long distance, or from, or through the ceiling.
It is partly for this reason that ventriloquists succeed much better in imitating the language of children, or that of persons of slight education.
Those ventriloquists who, without accessories, have the power of throwing their voices almost anywhere, succeed therein by utilizing the same principle of acoustics that we have explained above.
Ventriloquists may, according to their specialties, be divided into various categories.
Certain ventriloquists imitate the sound of musical instruments, from that of the violin up to that of brass instruments with the most piercing notes.
In our time, most ventriloquists who exhibit in public considerably facilitate the illusion that they desire to produce by using large articulated dummies, which they make speak and sing, and talk to one another--each in a different voice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ventriloquists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
