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

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 Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

"Mistress Mary," said Elspeth, "you never told us anything before that was not true; tell us if this was a Hallowe'en cantrip, and make an end of it."

From The Monastery by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

By some "cantrip slight," it had no doubt brought her there to be ready in case of accidents, and it now left her to be caught in its stead.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay