The magician said a short incantation before performing his illusion. From LearnThat.org.
If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Brooks quote: The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.""] Reference
Question: The seven word incantation that changed Mitt to Mutt. From Wordnik.com. [Spokesman: Romney Not "Equating Or Comparing Anyone" When Holding "Obama Osama" Sign] Reference
The combination of the two gods is particularly frequent in the so-called incantation texts. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
For it must either be by virtue of some natural science or by incantation, that is, virtue of words. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill] Reference
Alaska -- the incantation has been the same, recited with the exact same phraseology and intonation. From Wordnik.com. [The American Spectator] Reference
Back before either one of us was twenty Cooper Renner coined the incantation “thrice — and it is so”. From Wordnik.com. [Alert | Revamped Site | Terrorkitten | clusterflock] Reference
The chanting itself may also be seen as a kind of incantation or magic spell. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Nuns] Reference
I'm not reducing Christianity to a kind of incantation someone can utter. From Wordnik.com. [:: in.a.mirror.dimly ::] Reference
If we did not know that Borrow used these verses as a kind of incantation we should be sorry to have read them. From Wordnik.com. [George Borrow The Man and His Books] Reference
A most important cult of this nature was incantation. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Jr., spoke of incantation as a popular custom in ancient times. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
He took a deep breath, as if he were about to spit out an incantation. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard] Reference
It was the power of vision and movement, the power of spell and incantation. From Wordnik.com. [Hex] Reference
Magical medicine including exorcism, amulets, talismans, fetishes and incantation. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964] Reference
No remedy, we are told, was administered without mysterious ceremony and incantation. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The chronicler of this curious incantation calls attention to the association of the name of. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
It may be an amulet, a cabalistic symbol, an incantation, a bread-pill, or even sudden fright. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
"Good Nanette," interrupted the jester, satirically, "I have no time for spells or incantation.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Since long before his election in May, Sarkozy has talked about the need "to move from incantation to action.". From Wordnik.com. [Sartre, Meet Sarkozy] Reference
She has made this announcement 13,819 times, and it has the power of incantation, nay, of the Rite of Exorcism. From Wordnik.com. [Full Stop! Punctuation Police!] Reference
When Wainamoinen had finished, the old man rose from the hearth and began an incantation to make the wound close up. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
On Leonard Cohen's "Here It Is," she feels the dramatic incantation of the lyrics so deeply that she barely sings them. From Wordnik.com. [Souza's 'New Bossa Nova' Covers Pop Standards] Reference
Less influenced by the astral-theological system are the old incantation texts which were gathered together into series. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
"I miss you soooo much" serves as a heartsick incantation on the trundling "I Want To," before the song snaps into a sprint. From Wordnik.com. [Album review of 'Crazy for You' by Best Coast] Reference
Each time the boy left, with the dust rising and mingling around her, she uttered the same soft incantation: "Be well, boy.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hole Between Them] Reference
He concludes his missal with the appropriate incantation that for the financial nabobs "sacrifice is for the little people.". From Wordnik.com. [Raymond J. Learsy: Krugman Takes On the Angry Rich But Misses Their Pompous Pieties] Reference
Then followed the lines which Plunger so well remembered -- the words which had formed part of the incantation of the "Mystic Circle:". From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
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