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Tout le monde le sait, tout le monde devrait le savoir: la "marionnette" Karzaï remet au goût du jour le dicton, - "avec des valets comme ça, pas besoin de talibans".
Dedefensa Philippe Grasset 2010
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I want to create a marionnette remake of Grim Fandango.
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I want to create a marionnette remake of Grim Fandango.
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She resembled a minute and irrepressible Shaker, or a live and beautiful _marionnette_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various
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I was looking around with much admiration, when from the opposite direction came some strolling Savoyards, with a species of puppet, or _marionnette_, called by these people _Mademoiselle
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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There are at present about eighty different troupes of actors in Italy, including those devoted to the marionnette and dialect performances.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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She was now useful to them, and her marvellous beauty began to attract and brought additional coin to their collections, after the performances of the _marionnette_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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This was the end of the chapter beginning with my introduction to the strolling Savoyards, the dance of the _marionnette_, the transfer of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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A graying man with the gait of a marionnette and the precise expression of a rocking-horse, who had just entered, crossed over.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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One marionnette was the king; another the wicked counsellor; a third, credited with exceptional beauty, represented Thisbe; and then there were guards, and obdurate fathers, and walking gentlemen.
An Inland Voyage 1878
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