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conjuring-trick

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  • Many things have happened that people call miracles, by which they mean a sort of divine conjuring-trick that is performed or brought about by violating or annihilating natural laws.

    Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

  • But for all that the transformation had something of the effect of a conjuring-trick.

    Jill the Reckless 1928

  • I never met any one who knew how the thing was done, but I never met any one who believed it to be anything else than a conjuring-trick.

    The Greatest Thing in the World And Other Addresses 1920

  • Have you ever heard of a conjuring-trick like that -- to send money from England to Bornholm over the telegraph cable?

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • Have you ever heard of a conjuring-trick like that -- to send money from England to Bornholm over the telegraph cable?

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • This is the Demon's amazing conjuring-trick -- what else can you call it?

    The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

  • This is the Demon's amazing conjuring-trick -- what else can you call it?

    The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

  • Bring back the pudding! 'and there it was again in a moment like a conjuring-trick.

    Through the Looking Glass 1899

  • The man's a sorcerer; the thing's a conjuring-trick, it's

    Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1896

  • After a few minutes, Medford shows the Signor his conjuring-trick of the shilling in the glass.

    Happy-Thought Hall 1876

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