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
"Mistress Mary," said Elspeth, "you never told us anything before that was not true; tell us if this was a Hallowe'en cantrip, and make an end of it."
From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
For by what cantrip it wad ill-beseem a man to judge, she was hingin' frae a single nail an' by a single wursted thread for darnin' hose.
From Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories by Joseph Lewis French
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
For—by what cantrip it wad ill beseem a man to judge—she was hingin' frae a single nail an' by a single wursted thread for darnin' hose.
From Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
