jugglery
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Far from being mere slices of life, or glimpses of fantasy or of psychological freaks, they demonstrate once again that the short story is not only for light jugglery.
From Time Magazine Archive
That did not end the amazing jugglery, for a few days later the Stevens Hotel gave notes to Illinois Life not in exchange for the third mortgage but for $700,000 cash.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cried another: "Let us never forget . . . the manipulations, financial jugglery, or what some would term jiggery-pokery."
From Time Magazine Archive
Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next, a troop of jugglers with polished spheres of gold, which they hurl up high jn flashing flights, and catch, and hurl again, making' fountain-jets of bright jugglery.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
We are too close to Infinite love and wisdom to play pranks before it, and provoke comparison between our paltry juggleries and its omnipotence and majesty.
From Confessions and Criticisms by Julian Hawthorne
The French travellers thought, like me, that the passage of rarefied air through the fissures of a sonorous stone might have suggested to the Egyptian priests the invention of the juggleries of the Memnomium.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
True, he managed the trip to Flushing with his ancient extravagance; true, he employed all the juggleries of the law to prevent his surrender at Amsterdam.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley
The juggleries of Simon are readily discerned by Demas, but thoroughly deceive poor Nathaniel: what then is the latter to do?
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman
It revealed natural tendencies, and confirmed Tyope in the belief that the Navajos were born wizards, that their juggleries and performances, some of which are indeed startling, revealed the possession of higher powers.
From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
