| 1. | Millers, who was the other nurse, retired into the house, and by degrees the child's wailing was hushed and stopped, as if it were a young ventriloquist with something in its mouth. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | At the most, I regard thee as the ventriloquist of the earth and ever, when I have heard subversive and spouting devils speak, I have found them like thee embittered, mendacious, and shallow. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |