'Oh, yes mamma!' said Helena: 'and do you know, that one of the questions that the people ask the conjuror, is Where is the happiest family to be found?. From Wordnik.com. [Belinda] Reference
But that you may not suspect Lady Emily for a sorceress, or me for a conjuror, which is no joke in Scotland, I must tell you that Frank. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
For they had planned for the kind of conjuror that Adria was: one who concentrated on major effects. From Wordnik.com. [If I Pay Thee Not In Gold]
I think the conjuror was the devil. From Wordnik.com. [Romola] Reference
This was an exposure the conjuror had not foreseen!. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
The event must show what sort of a conjuror Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Alle I woulde say is, I ne'er set up for a conjuror. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
When at the river's brink the conjuror was to cry out. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Neither conjuror, nor usher, nor bearers had ever returned. From Wordnik.com. [The Room in the Dragon Volant] Reference
He is also conjuror a little, for the cards to go as he wishes. From Wordnik.com. [Ruined City]
"Marvellous," he declares, like a conjuror delighted with his trick. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
Hamer, late of Berse, told me of the following exposure of a conjuror. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
She had held it concealed in her palm, and produced it like a conjuror. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Even a fishing rod made by a conjuror was sure to bring luck to the fisherman. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
But still, Riccabocca was said to be a Papist, and suspected to be a conjuror. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
A Mrs. Turner, the countess's agent, was associated with this skilful conjuror. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
I think you all must have been to lectures from senor galloway, another conjuror. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
That's why a conjuror always tells you to watch closely — what he wants you to watch. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
"And why," asked Benaiah, "didst thou jeer when thou sawest the conjuror at his tricks?". From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Conceive the power, in a metaphysical sense, the conjuror must have had over the lender's mind!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841] Reference
"We will make them vanish," broke in the minister, "like half-pence in the hands of a conjuror.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
My mother says that he had none -- the âkhon repeats the same -- I am no conjuror to discover the truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
She had a kind of faith that the Doctor was a mighty conjuror, who, if he would, could bewitch any of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
Liz Williams is the daughter of a conjuror and a Gothic novelist, and currently lives in Brighton, England. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The office of the conjuror was to counteract the machinations of witches, and to deliver people from their spells. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Watch-collecting was his hobby, and, like a conjuror, he produced them from the most unexpected and mysterious places. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
You see how the last testimony of the miracles of this conjuror is fetched from heaven: "For the Bath Kol went forth," &c. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
And look at the outlandish folk that visit him: dwarves coming at night, and that old wandering conjuror, Gandalf, and all. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
I was thinking within myself how utterly inexplicable was my colloquy with the conjuror, so cavalierly dismissed by Monsieur. From Wordnik.com. [The Room in the Dragon Volant] Reference
Squadron Leader, Hassan's like a conjuror who makes a great play of concealing something that wasn't ever there in the first place! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
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