conjurer's

There was a magic in words greater than the conjurer's art.

Chapter 5: The Philomaths 2010

Indeed, most of the songs that work a conjurer's spell on Mr. Thompson are, aside from "Gilded Splinters," evocations of the swampland by outsiders who had never been there except in their imagination, epitomized by Creedence Clearwater Revival, who hailed from northern California "but whose boots were nevertheless caked with bayou mud."

A Road Trip in Search of Ghosts Eddie Dean 2010

Leonora I and 8th fine, but suffered wherever grip and momentum and furor were required - they got through because of their music, but the Eroica, which is a Creative act to hear, was just bled white - all the fiddlers tickling like a field of mere grashoppers, or conjurer's assistants, while Boult's hands fluttered in the void like Shelley's for effect ...

Devotional reading 2008

The tick-tick dance was never-ending, like a conjurer's dance or a warrior's dance.

The Cool Aunt 2010

A conjurer's trick, she thought, with disgust-but then the flame took more definite shape, the general aspect of a lizard, which blinked fiery blue eyes at her, and began to spin in place.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

It's the old conjurer's trick of forcing a card on you.

Twin Moons 2010

Leonora I and 8th fine, but suffered wherever grip and momentum and furor were required - they got through because of their music, but the Eroica, which is a Creative act to hear, was just bled white - all the fiddlers tickling like a field of mere grashoppers, or conjurer's assistants, while Boult's hands fluttered in the void like Shelley's for effect ...

Devotional reading 2008

Now this quiet courtyard, Sunday afternoon, this girl with a gymnast's body and conjurer's hands.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

He drew teeth with a dexterity that strongly reminded one of the conjurer's art; one moment he showed an empty pair of forceps, the next there was a big molar in their grip.

The South Pole~ Plan and Preparations 2009

No wonder the crowd in Kansas City screams in gratitude simply to behold him, watch him move, bask in his bodily presence: people want proof that he's not simply a conjurer's trick — all pixie dust and phosphor traces.

The Tour, The Money, The Magic 2009