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And there lies its depth and darkness, bravely concealed with all the wit and sleight of hand and ventriloquistic verbiage and tale-telling bravura of which Mitchell is a master.

From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2014

The song of birds was hushed in the wild woods, even the corn-crake had ceased its ventriloquistic notes, and the plaintive wee lilt of the yellow-hammer was heard no more.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

Now came again the ventriloquistic voice at the door, "phaeton's ready, Miss Margaret."

From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

A kingbird chattered and shrieked overhead, the grasshoppers buzzed in the grasses, strange insects with ventriloquistic voices sang all about her,—she could not tell where.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

"Gone on ahead!" grunted the younger gentleman, in a bass voice, so incongruously large for him that it seemed to have been a ventriloquistic contribution by somebody else.

From Drift from Two Shores by Harte, Bret