cantrip
Example Sentences
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And indeed Ellen was sitting there very stiffly, turning her hands together and looking down on them as if she despised them for their cantrips.
From The Judge by West, Rebecca
The Nereids, in Modern Greece, practise fairy cantrips, and the same beliefs exist in Samoa and New Caledonia.
From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew
Jim Armstrong, you thrawart bully you, dinna think you are the only man that kens Cumberland cantrips.
From Scottish sketches by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
He hid behind a hedge, and watched them stooping over the well, mumbling he knew not what of cantrips.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles
My certie, but he'll hae the warst o't, honest man; rinnin' after her, wi' a' her whigmaleries an' cantrips.
From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
