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Next, in a freak of ventriloquism, he startles you still more by bringing from the crocodile's mouth a sigh, so long drawn, so human, that you really shudder, and are ready to implore him to play no more tricks.
The invitations had been sent out too late to allow time for the purchase of many gifts, but there were fruits and flowers, and some few toys; among these last, animals which ventriloquism caused apparently to say very amusing things, to the surprise and merriment of the little folks.
The sound is made to proceed from the throat in a way much resembling ventriloquism, to which art it is indeed an approach. After the last amatama Iligliuk always pointed with her finger towards her body, and pronounced the word angetkook, steadily retaining her gravity for five or six seconds, and then bursting into a loud laugh, in which she was joined by all the rest.
The explanation of certain strange phenomena as ventriloquism a matter that Webster had investigated painstakingly this had been urged before. Webster himself did not believe that new arguments were needed.
It was as though some one else had been speaking a stranger who had borrowed her own voice: she felt herself the dupe of some fantastic mental ventriloquism. Concluding suddenly that the room was stifling and Una's tea too sweet, she set down her cup, and looked about for Westall: to meet his eyes had long been her refuge from every uncertainty.
The whole thing was a careful reproduction of the Egyptian teraphin that one reads about sometimes; and the voice was as clever and as appalling a piece of ventriloquism as one could wish to hear. All this time the head was "lip-lip-lapping" against the side of the basin, and speaking.
In most cases those consulting the oracle would probably be satisfied with hearing the voice of the dead man, or with a vision of him in sleep, so that some knowledge of ventriloquism or power of hypnotism or suggestion would often be ample stock-in-trade for those in charge. This consulting of the dead must have been very common in antiquity.
"They were easy, after all, Bessie." "They've gone! It's all right now," said Bessie. "But who was it, Dolly? Who could it have been?" "It was me!" exclaimed Dolly, weakly, between gasps of laughter, forgetting her grammar altogether. "I learned that trick last summer. They call it ventriloquism.
But Southwark ought to have sufficed to satisfy the ambition of a clown. Ursus said, "The money bag grows palpably bigger." They played "Ursus Rursus" and "Chaos Vanquished." Between the acts Ursus exhibited his power as an engastrimist, and executed marvels of ventriloquism.
His doubts were speedily dispelled, however; for the stout man having blown a thick cloud from his pipe, a hoarse voice, like some strange effort of ventriloquism, emerged from beneath the capacious shawls which muffled his throat and chest, and slowly uttered these sounds 'Wy, Sammy! 'Who's that, Sam? inquired Mr. Pickwick. 'Why, I wouldn't ha' believed it, Sir, replied Mr.
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