I need hardly add that these cards are specially treated against any kind of legerdemain, which is superfluous in any case since they will be machine-shuffled. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Wheel]
It's the levity that helps to keep us afloat, the magic that gives us lightness of touch -- what the French call legerdemain -- grace under pressure, wonder, and hope. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Matousek: Life Lessons from Peter Pan] Reference
Stewart's question reveals both a gap in his education and a laudable ability to spot legerdemain which is a pretty good cement for such educational gaps. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-08] Reference
When art shall be annexed to beauty, when wiles and guiles shall concur; for to speak as it is, love is a kind of legerdemain; mere juggling, a fascination. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
A plain man, who knew nothing of the curious transmutation which the wit of man can work, would be very apt to wonder by what kind of legerdemain Aaron. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
We find that the claim is based on dubious assumptions, cherry-picking data, and mathematical legerdemain which is inexplicably being withheld from the public. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Chancellor vigorously opposed him -- with skillful legerdemain. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
The question is thus narrowed to one of pure legerdemain, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert] Reference
It took some legerdemain and the power of prayer to keep Kerrey aloft. From Wordnik.com. [SIX MEN AND A DONKEY] Reference
Of course this bit of economic legerdemain fools no one, let alone investors. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Abrams: The Years of Agonizing Reappraisal] Reference
It's that kind of political legerdemain he hopes to pull off in San Francisco. From Wordnik.com. [City Slickers] Reference
By such elementary tricks of legerdemain as these are guileless, honest folk deceived. From Wordnik.com. [Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert] Reference
By no sort of legerdemain or surgical skill can we make an individual mammal become two. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Hawthorne gave it and which makes it significant beyond a mere feat of verbal legerdemain. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
Mrs. West's tone indicated that by some mysterious legerdemain the burden had been shifted. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Like it or not, and even allowing for some Castiglioni legerdemain, we are all Herodoteans now. From Wordnik.com. [Riddle of the sands] Reference
By some uncanny legerdemain he had gotten control of himself and the situation at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
I always thought Kissinger managing two or three crises at the same time was an act of legerdemain. From Wordnik.com. [‘That Was Amateur Night’] Reference
This legerdemain may have misled Lehman's investors, but regulators have not alleged that the tactic was illegal. From Wordnik.com. [SEC proposes tighter debt-disclosure rules for companies] Reference
During the intermission, feats of legerdemain or wrestling fill in the time and give variety to the entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Tea Book] Reference
It goes like this: Liberty, while holding 30 percent of IAC, with its usual legerdemain controls 62 percent of the vote. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of Enemies] Reference
The impostor was renowned for his wonderful tricks of legerdemain, as well as for cures, necromancy, and fortune-telling. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
No less astounding was the uncanny legerdemain displayed in drawing from and replacing the weapon in its place of concealment. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
It finally all makes sense after a fashion, and I think and hope that you will be entertained by all the narrative legerdemain. From Wordnik.com. [Slevin���s Debt to Tarantino: Who Cares as Long as It���s Fun?] Reference
In order to accomplish this piece of legal legerdemain, the court had to alter or reinterpret the law in ways that are disturbing. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Now, we ask, by what process of pro-slavery legerdemain, this regulation can be made to harmonize with the doctrine of WORK WITHOUT PAY?. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
There are few persons who have not been puzzled, when witnessing the exhibitions of conjurers and performers of feats of legerdemain, by the. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
As Hesse points out, this legal legerdemain also produced an interesting transformation in the status of the great authors of the French tradition. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Presently, the interpreter proposed an exhibition of legerdemain, and in this I found considerable amusement to make up for the preceding buffoonery. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
By a species of legerdemain in the communities in which he is most numerous and most needs protection, he is to all intents and purposes disfranchised. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
Ronsdale stood sedulously near, turning the leaves; Steele watched the deft hand; it was slim, aristocratic and suggested possibilities in legerdemain. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
The Pompeiian hall has something of the air of a hall dressed for legerdemain, and if you pause to think you will note a strange wizardry at work there. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
He had attended, for the first time in his life, an exhibition of legerdemain; this one being given by that celebrated master of the black-art, Professor Heller. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
During these studio days he studied legerdemain and ventriloquism, and became one of the most expert sleight-of-hand wizards and ventriloquial entertainers of his time. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
With lightning-like legerdemain the quack had shuffled this bill to the bottom of his pile, and lifting up the one that lay on top, exposed it to the view of his audience. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
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