wirepuller

Historical Examples of wire-puller

• "When I made the engagement, I did not know that you had become a wire-puller," he wrote briefly, in making his excuse.

  Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871

  Various

• It required all the skill of Bolingbroke, the wire-puller of the Opposition, to induce the two parties to unite in the assault.

  A History of England, Period III.

  Rev. J. Franck Bright

• The ballot alone effectively liberates the quiet citizen from the tyranny of the shouter and the wire-puller.

  Liberalism

  L. T. Hobhouse

• Francis Place was the wire-puller, to whose energy was due the abolition of the Conspiracy Laws in 1824.

  The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)

  Leslie Stephen

• "It was very astute of me, or of the wire-puller above us, to postpone my fit until the very moment you were with me," he said.

  Atlantis

  Gerhart Hauptmann