"He's a sleight-of-hand Chinee, that's what he is.". From Wordnik.com. [Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll] Reference
This was where his quick sleight-of-hand work came in. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference
But hers was no sleight-of-hand or ritual performance. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
So I grabbed my chance and did a little sleight-of-hand. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
So the homestead loan business became a sleight-of-hand performance. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Then, laughing, added: "Is that one of your sleight-of-hand tricks?". From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference
It is the earliest sleight-of-hand trick taught to the nursery child. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
Being a sleight-of-hand performer, he can do things that you could not see. From Wordnik.com. [Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll] Reference
Next to making a good speech, I'd like to be skilled in sleight-of-hand affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
This time out the versatile Soderbergh has cast himself as a sleight-of-hand artist. From Wordnik.com. [Boys Just Wanna Have Fun] Reference
He's a sleight-of-hand feller, an 'he kin handle dice an' cards any way he wants ter. From Wordnik.com. [Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll] Reference
It must have needed marvellous sleight-of-hand to conceal a full-grown sheep from view!. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
I took it with the marvel that a child takes a sleight-of-hand toy and stared at the seal. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Too bad perception is being driven by the Clinton's sleight-of-hand and the MSM complicity. From Wordnik.com. [AP/Ipsos: Hillary Performing Better Than Obama Against McCain] Reference
"By the way, where's the dagger she produced with such lightning sleight-of-hand last night?". From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
Malone turned the media deal into the main show — it was all a sleight-of-hand magic trick. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of Enemies] Reference
What do they steer everything back to with rhetorical sleight-of-hand, no matter what the facts are?. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Scher: Waking Up The "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour" (VIDEO)] Reference
The accounting sleight-of-hand was denounced in March as "misleading" by a court-appointed examiner. From Wordnik.com. [SEC Homes In on Lehman, 'Funds of Funds'] Reference
"I appoint you, Thony, treasurer of the exchequer, because you are quick at sleight-of-hand," he began. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
No angler and no gardener, indeed, -- too severely and proudly meditative for any such sleight-of-hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
ANDERSON: A master of illusion does a major sleight-of-hand that keeps his valuables away from criminals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2006] Reference
"But I do think that some one should have told me that I was betting against a sleight-of-hand performer.". From Wordnik.com. [Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll] Reference
None of this -- None of this will be based on any new form of monetary tinkering or fiscal sleight-of-hand. From Wordnik.com. [1980 Republican National Convention Address] Reference
At any rate you have a sort of sleight-of-hand manner of looking at your watch that makes me rather nervous. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
They were not much concerned, and seemed to regard it as a pleasing sleight-of-hand performance on their part. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
But the Lady of Leisure massacre seemed to be more than mere sleight-of-hand to mislead an international audience. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon Season]
When asked on Saturday about his characterization of Sherrod, for example, he responds with a sleight-of-hand trick. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Bonifer: Breitbart's Game] Reference
She had been a music-hall singer when her husband was a sleight-of-hand artist, "The Great Malino, the Wizard of Milan.". From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
And without another word she turned the four horses and the wagon with a skill that fell little short of sleight-of-hand. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
There were sleight-of-hand performers, there were tumblers of red looking stuff to drink; there were trained mice and rats. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
Some persons were skeptical as to whether or not he really did swallow the fruit, thinking it might be sleight-of-hand work. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank] Reference
Thom, whose nimble fingers were used to performing sleight-of-hand, never lost when he flipped the coin, so Juilin always did it now. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
Nothing to do with the kind of sleight-of-hand obfuscation you're trying to pull here, equating "all other Democrats" with Lieberman. From Wordnik.com. [CT-SEN: Lieberman Won't Say Whether Dems Should Win House] Reference
And yet such a path to no-risk ownership, such sleight-of-hand financing, is as much timing and emotional equilibrium as it is math brain. From Wordnik.com. [Serious Money] Reference
All the other magicians are just skilled practitioners of stage mechanics and sleight-of-hand, but David Copperfield is doing actual magic. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Dorchen: God Is a Secular Humanist] Reference
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