"Puller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The celebrated wire-puller, whose name was familiar to every statesman and stock-broker in Europe, had an appearance ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
... was the atavistic production of serfdom, a stupefied, ignorant, unprincipled man, who had not even any religion. Euphemia was his mistress, and a victim of heredity; all the signs of degeneration were noticeable in her. The chief wire-puller in this affair was Maslova, presenting the phenomenon of decadence in its lowest form. "This woman," he said, looking at her, "has, as we have to-day heard from her mistress in this court, received an education; ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... answer him, Laches; I rather fancy that you are not aware of the source from which his wisdom is derived. He has got all this from my friend Damon, and Damon is always with Prodicus, who, of all the Sophists, is considered to be the best puller to pieces of words of ...
— Laches • Plato |
