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
I don't know how it was done—by some 'devilish cantrip slight.'
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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 John Mackay 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 An Oxonian
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 E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
