incantations

Soon several holidays will be upon us and with many, an expectation of spending frantic time rushing around to use incantations from a piece of plastic to find gifts that hopefully will work out.

Art 2010

If crosses, holy water, and Latin incantations all fail, Galifianakis can still resort to sitting down at a piano and delivering deadpan jokes.

Zach Galifianakis to Rock Some Exorcisms in MIRACLE WORKERS – Collider.com 2010

The many Latin incantations and imprecations could also help rekindle interest in the study of a “dead” language.

Archive 2007-08-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Old English comments: highlyeccentric said ... iiidjot. not to mention he buys into the silly logic which vaules HP for it's "Latin incantations".

I think this is why I read the BBC... Mary Kate Hurley 2007

The many Latin incantations and imprecations could also help rekindle interest in the study of a “dead” language.

I think this is why I read the BBC... Mary Kate Hurley 2007

These difficulties are slight, however, compared with the fact that millions still believe in incantations as a cure for smallpox, or in other remedies of the same fascinating nature.

Dollars, Doctors, and Disease 1969

These difficulties are slight, however, compared with the fact that millions still believe in incantations as a cure for smallpox, or in other remedies of the same fascinating nature.

Dollars, Doctors, and Disease 1933

Such vain incantations could affect the mind, and increase the disease of Germanicus.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfillment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.

Chapter 2 2010

The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors, the fulfillment of which I most eagerly sought; and if my incantations were always unsuccessful, I attributed the failure rather to my own inexperience and mistake than to a want of skill or fidelity in my instructors.

Chapter 1 2010