"Wax figure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... decorations. I am not so fond of the family as you may imagine; Lady Mary and Miss Nugent are less than indifferent to me. Lady Mary is a mere manoeuvrer, that no straightforward person could like; and Miss Nugent is a mere handsome wax figure, with such clever machinery inside, that she can literally say the words, "mamma thaith." I have heard of a doll who could say "mamma," but ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale
... different from Walpole's; she tacks a natural explanation to every unearthly sight or sound. The hollow voices turn out to be ventriloquism; the figure of a putrefying corpse which Emily sees behind the black curtain in the ghost chamber at Udolpho is only a wax figure, contrived as a memento mori for a former penitent. After the reader has once learned this trick he refuses to be imposed upon again, and, whenever he encounters a spirit, feels sure that a future chapter will embody it back ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... door-keeper, who, however, neither spoke nor held out his hand. "Flintergill" said he "wor a funny door-keeper" and threatened that "if he didn't tak' t' brass they wor bahn in abaht." And inside "Flintergill" and his friend bounced, to find that the door-keeper was "Tim Bobbin,"—a wax figure.—Still another anecdote says that "Flintergill" was one day seen up a tree sawing off one of the branches. A passer-by asked, "What is ta dewin up theear, Flintergill?" "Oh," was the reply, "we call this weyvin i' ahr country." ...
— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End
... that I was visiting a storage warehouse filled with old furniture, in the midst of which stood Parr like a wax figure escaped from ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... lowered horns by some incredible fluke of fortune. If this seems to make Gerda a coward, it should be remembered that she showed none of these inward blenchings, but went on her way with the rest, composed as a little wax figure at Madame Tussaud's. She was, in fact, of the stuff of which martyrs are made, and would probably have gone to the stake for a conviction. But stampeding cattle, and high seas, and brakeless lightning descents, she ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay |
