He lay there like a lifeless waxwork-blown through, like an apparatus out of order, to simulate breath, and doing it badly.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
You're the waxwork child, are you not?
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
If you have no reason to feel a becoming pride before waxwork children, there are young ladies here who have, and you must either defer to those young ladies or leave the establishment, Miss Edwards."
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes