trick,

It always raised laughs, but the curse did the trick,

Sarah Cole | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2007

For the record, the victim of Ensberg's hidden ball trick,

USATODAY.com - Some expectations are hard to meet 2002

Ah! Ah! thought Old Nick, that's a very stale trick,

Critical Text 1997

Ah! Ah! thought Old Nick, that's a very stale trick,

Clear Reading Text 1997

Yet, when at last he had to own he could not do the trick,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 Various

The people said they rather thought he did it as a trick,

Something Else Again 1920

Avenue modiste's establishment to the limit, but she's turned the trick,

Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

Come to consider, there was no vice about the trick,

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Thoroughly convinced that his imagination had played him a trick,

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

He's just the victim of Fate's oldest, meanest trick,

Why Worry? George Lincoln Walton 1897