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Pied piper

noun

A leader who entices people to follow (especially to their doom).

The title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning. Synonym: Pied Piper of Hamelin.

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"Pied piper" Quotes from Famous Books

... mine and the other is for Edward," guessed Tom. "Am I one of the Great Twin Brethren and is Edward's the Pied Piper?" ...

— Ethel Morton's Holidays • Mabell S. C. Smith

... the pinched faces of the children in the poorer quarters of any city to know that it is there. They are tidier and cleaner than English slum children, but they make you wish just as ardently that you were the Pied Piper and could pipe them all with you to a land of plenty. It would require more experience and wider facts than I possess to compare the condition of the poor in England and Germany, especially as the professed economists and philanthropists who make it their business to understand such things ...

— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

... apocalypse. There will be cloud pillars miles high, snow-capped, glorified, and preserving an orderly perspective before the unbarred door of the sun, or perhaps mere ghosts of clouds that dance to some pied piper of an unfelt wind. But be it day or night, once they have settled to their work, one sees from the valley only the blank wall of their tents stretched along the ranges. To get the real effect of a mountain storm ...

— The Land of Little Rain • Mary Austin

... more sudden, or surprizing; He has Reason indeed to say, that, when he "pipes some deal," his 'Sheep' are 'diverted' with him. His Readers, I am afraid too, are as merry as his Sheep; If he was but as skilful in Change of Time, as he is in Change of Dialect, commend me to him for a Musician! The pied Piper, who drew all the Rats of a City out, after his Melody, came ...

— 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation • Aaron Hill

Words linked to "Pied piper" : leader, character, fictional character, fictitious character