"Ventriloquist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were sounds of violent blows, and several sceptics were struck on the head by John King's speaking-trumpet; a sofa cushion was flung at me, and something else was thrown at the gentleman from Liverpool. A sceptic who had said that any ventriloquist could imitate a deep voice, got rapped violently on the head, and John King bellowed at the same time, 'Is that ventriloquism?' A man near me said he thought he felt a cold breeze passing over his ...
— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant
... get used to everything ... if one wishes... Plenty of young people who did not care for each other before marriage have adored each other since! Oh, I don't know what I am talking about! But you would have lots of fun with me. For instance, I am the greatest ventriloquist that ever lived, I am the first ventriloquist in the world! ... You're laughing ... Perhaps ...
— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux
... very good amateur ventriloquist, although he seldom practiced the art. Now, however, he saw ...
— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish |
