"Punchinello" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... within a stone's throw of the great building when the squeaking tones of Punchinello, reached his ears, while a deep roar of many laughing voices accompanied the squeakings. A moment more and he was abreast of a crowd of many hundreds of people gathered around ...
— The Mark of the Beast • Sidney Watson
... rather a poussa, the interior extremity of whom, spreading over the interior of the box, entirely filled it, when still closer, the man was Mousqueton—Mousqueton, with gray hair and a face as red as Punchinello's. ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... their great guns: and when we came, did find that the trial had been made, and they going away, with extraordinary report of the proof of his gun, which, from the shortness and bigness, they do call Punchinello. But I desired Colonell Legg to stay and give us a sight of her performance; which he did, and there, in short, against a gun more than as long and as heavy again, and charged with as much powder again, she carried ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys |
