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Ventriloquial

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ven·tril·o·quism  (vn-trl-kwzm)
n.
The art of projecting one's voice so that it seems to come from another source, as from a wooden figure.

[From Latin ventriloquus, speaking from the belly : venter, ventr-, belly + loqu, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.]

ventri·loqui·al (-tr-lkw-l) n.


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Agatha broke it because she was fond of making toffee, of eating it, of a good fire, of doing any forbidden thing, and of the admiration with which the servants listened to her ventriloquial and musical feats.
Grimwig, speaking by some ventriloquial power, without moving a muscle of his face.
For the words which I intended the corpse to speak, I confidently depended upon my ventriloquial abilities; for their effect, I counted upon the conscience of the murderous wretch.
 
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