magic instrument
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No. Ships carry the "far-eye," the magic instrument that makes the distant near, that brings things from miles away to within a few yards.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
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 then possess a magic instrument, and I forget the holy Lord.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
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
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
