conjuror

• “Oh, yes mamma!' said Helena: 'and do you know, that one of the questions that the people ask the conjuror, is Where is the happiest family to be found?”

  Belinda

• “But that you may not suspect Lady Emily for a sorceress, or me for a conjuror, which is no joke in Scotland, I must tell you that Frank Stanley, your friend, who has been seized with a tartan fever ever since he heard Edward's tales of old Scottish manners, happened to describe to us at second hand this remarkable cup.”

  The Waverley

• “But that you may not suspect Lady Emily for a sorceress, or me for a conjuror, which is no joke in Scotland, I must tell you that Frank”

  Waverley

• “But that you may not suspect Lady Emily for a sorceress, or me for a conjuror, which is no joke in Scotland, I must tell you that Frank Stanley, your friend, who has been seized with a tartan fever ever since he heard Edward's tales of old”

  Waverley — Volume 2

• “(that is to say the conjuror) she had been near it.”

  Cranford

• “For they had planned for the kind of conjuror that Adria was: one who concentrated on major effects.”

  If I Pay Thee Not In Gold

• “But that you may not suspect Lady Emily for a sorceress, or me for a conjuror, which is no joke in Scotland, I must tell you that Frank Stanley, your friend, who has been seized with a tartan fever ever since he heard Edward’s tales of old Scottish manners, happened to describe to us at second-hand this remarkable cup.”

  Waverley

• “You need to think like a street conjuror to get that chain of thinking ...”

  Jack Schmitt on Global Warming - NASA Watch

• “My grandmother, herself a sorcerer and conjuror, caught me as I was born.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fire The Sky

• “He's like Jennings after being bitten by a radioactive conjuror.”

  The Guardian: JK Rowling should remember that less means more in the Potterverse | David Mitchell

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