“He invented a puppet in the shape of a wooden woman, which was made by strings and springs to dance on the battlements of the beleaguered town.”

“The girls go into the wood, cut down a young tree, and fasten to it a puppet dressed in white clothes to look like a woman.”

“Their poor UK director was and always would be just a puppet of the directors working from the head office on the other side of the world.”

“If not familiar with puppetry, you may wonder why the characters are making jerky movements.”

“Granted the puppetry leaves a lot to be desired, but it was made a long time ago so it can be forgiven for that.”

“Amid the dirty narrow lanes survives the centuries-old Rajasthani tradition of puppetry in the city.”

“But the real puppetmaster in the Railtrack scandal is the Chancellor himself, both through Vadera and his direct instructions and consultations.”

“The novel, meanwhile, posits God as the ultimate conspirator, less a deity than a puppetmaster whose intentions are never clear.”

“Putin still controls the strings and Medvedev can only become the puppetmaster if he cuts them.”

“My unpaid bills just pile up, silently cursing their puppeteering ineptitude.”

“Sponsored by the Douglas Students' Union Performing Arts Committee, the eclectic event includes music, spoken word, puppeteering, slide shows, and jeer leading.”

“Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1929, he escaped the clutches of a military father and an unhinged alcoholic mother to try his luck first at acting, then puppeteering.”

“The streets are littered with potential puppet shows and potential puppeteers.”

“School children waving flags and bunting along with street puppeteers Artastic will then welcome the Special Olympic Torch to the town.”

“Traditional puppeteers supplement their income by selling craft on the side.”

“Lindbergh made them laugh by wiggling his ears and his shoes were so big that they put puppets in them at night.”

“This last measure made the Justices of the Peace mere puppets, unable to commit a prisoner or to hold him to bail.”

“They sang, danced little jigs, played puppets with the fish, anything to get Jude to smile.”