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
It would have been the daft but likeable cantrip I should have forgiven in any boy of mine; it would have shown some sign of a sogerly emprise.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
Well, this sort of cantrip was 'common form,' as we say at the Bar, in Hollond's Space, and he was very curious about the why and wherefore of Sleep.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
For by what cantrip it wad ill-beseem a man to judge, she was hingin’ frae a single nail an’ by a single wursted thread for darnin’ hose.
From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis
It is a strange cantrip, Mary," said the General; "I suppose you'll be going to give him something.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
