waxworks

• “I was looking for some waxworks,” he said, turning to her. —  Tether's End (Hide My Eyes) - Margery Allingham - Campion 17: 1958
• They stood as still as waxworks, except for Madame Le Cloaguen, who kept clasping and unclasping her hands. —  Georges Simenon - [44] Maigret and the Fortuneteller
• Finally the old museum, once the pride of the municipality, had come down to the disgraceful necessity of letting its lower floor to a ten-cent exhibition of respectable waxworks, the principal attraction of which was the automatic chessplayer, which a year before my visit had gained suddenly a reputation for playing at times with the skill of a fiend. —  The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle
• Royal waxworks, Fleet Street, 141. —  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)
• Our waxworks are absolutely going to take the shine out of their stupid old toy-shop. —  The Jolliest School of All

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