Polichinelle

"Polichinelle," and so home, and after a little supper to bed.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Thence to the Fayre, and saw "Polichinelle," and so home, and after a little supper to bed.

Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1668 Pepys, Samuel 1668

"Polichinelle," and so home, and after a little supper to bed.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Don't the French have a term for that, the secret de Polichinelle there, I've thoroughly scrambled that word!

Kevin Killian: What I Saw at the Orono Conference 2008, part 7 Dodie Bellamy 2008

Bocchetta_ in 'Polichinelle, some of our most comic operatic impressions will be revived.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

Polichinelle street, Avenue des Parades, Place des Parades, Street of the Chanson, and the like.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

Subsequently, it was given out that General Kirby Smith had a wonderful plan for the destruction of the enemy, which I had disturbed by rashly beating his army at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill; but this plan, like Trochu's for the defense of Paris, was never disclosed -- undoubtedly, because _c'était le secret de Polichinelle_.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor

There is also an anonymous article of great power on "Conscientious Objectors as Food for Racehorses," which should cause discussion, both by reason of its arguments and also through the secret of its authorship, which to the initiated is only of course a _secret de Polichinelle_.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various

The entrance of Polichinelle, however, cudgel and all, in the shape of

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

The apples began to burn red on the bending boughs; crickets sang day and night; squirrels chattered secrets of Polichinelle in the spruces; the sunshine was as thick and yellow as molten gold; school opened, and we small denizens of the hill farms lived happy days of harmless work and necessary play, closing in nights of peaceful, undisturbed slumber under a roof watched over by autumnal stars.

The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911