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

Then, with cantrip kisses seven,   Three times round with kisses seven, Warp'd and woven there spun we Arms and legs and flaming hair, Like a whirlwind on the sea.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Thence mystic knots mak great abuse On young guidmen, fond, keen an' crouse, When the best wark-lume i' the house, By cantrip wit, Is instant made no worth a louse, Just at the bit.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

I don't know how it was done—by some 'devilish cantrip slight.'

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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)