Though there was certainly an element of entertainment in Raphaelle's performances, ventriloquism, or biloquism as the new science was called, represented far more than entertainment in early-nineteenth-century America.

untimely remarks

The constitution of that people was made by a sejunction and separation of them from all other nations on the earth: and this began in Abraham […]

[T]he boys laughed and nudged one another, for it was evident that some one told tales out of school, else how could he know of the existence of these inconvenient treasures.