cantrip
Example Sentences
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To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls: "I've got a good thing!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Coffins stood round, like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in its cauld hand held a light.—
From Tam O'Shanter by Miller, Harry L.
And that old witch, Eliza— I little guessed she’d play this cantrip on me: But what a jest—Jerusalem, what a jest!
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
With anxious countenance and attentive ears, they listened to the cantrip effusions of these pretended oracles, which prognosticated the bright or gloomy days of futurity.
From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An
This deposition was made September 10, 1661, and surely Jennet Cock never escaped the consequences of such a cantrip as this!
From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
