magic instrument

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Two courtiers, anxious to ascertain who should succeed the Emperor Valens on the throne, employed a kind of magic instrument, resembling the modern psychograph, and succeeded in deciphering the letters Theod.

From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de

Now Wainamoinen longed to sing to his harp to rejoice the hearts of his people, but the magic instrument had been lost in the storm conjured by Louhi.

From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner

Plying the magic instrument, first on one side and then on the other alternately, she darted along the surface of the water with inconceivable velocity.

From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

One of them directed his glass so sharply at me, that I was almost blinded by the shine of the magic instrument.

From Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus

Marconi's invention seems uncanny, so impossible does it appear even when you watch his magic instrument at work.

From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah