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 Maximilian Schele de Vere
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 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
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 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
His voice, indeed, was a magic instrument: sometimes it rumbled like the thunder; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music.
From The Literary World Seventh Reader by John Calvin Metcalf
I remember that I have a magic instrument that resuscitates dead persons.”
From Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler
