conjurer

• “This circumstance diverted Mrs. Thomas, who imagined, that the man whom they called a conjurer, must have more sense than they understood.”

  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland

• “a medium, some call a conjurer, some call a charlatan and a quack.”

  The Mystery of the Four Fingers

• “Mrs. Cook assured him, the conjurer was a good Christian; and that he gained all his knowledge by conversing with the stars and planets.”

  The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

• “At this moment he reminded himself of Jama, the village sword conjurer; the image disgusted him.”

  A Spell For Chameleon

• “Everyone in the hotel was horrified when they knew that the conjurer was a traitor and a spy.”

  The Rubadub Mystery

• “Gurdon had heard that sort of hands before described as conjurer's hands.”

  The Mystery of the Four Fingers

• “Ketina protested, "The conjurer is a liar, his words are not true; they might have been true, had there been two rumbling noises.”

  Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

• “The play is in some ways a difficult one: we are left wondering whether or not Chesterton believes in magic; if he does, then the conjurer need not have been so upset that he had gained so much power of a psychic nature; if he does not, then the conjurer was a clever fraud or a brilliant hypnotist.”

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

• “One day he went to a old man that wuz called a conjurer; this old man told him that somebody had stole the sweat-band out of his cap and less he got it back, something terrible would happen.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1

• “In the middle of this great space we sat bound side by side, sitting upon the ground, the Surveyor-General and I, coats off and bare headed; behind me the larger of my negroes; before us was a great fire and around about the fire the conjurer, that is, an old gray Indian, a priest among them, who is commonly a magician, yes, even conjures up the devil himself.”

  Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois

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