I have never noticed before that you were a thought-reader. From Wordnik.com. [When We Dead Awaken] Reference
The thought-reader, having arranged that the confederate should write. From Wordnik.com. [My Book of Indoor Games] Reference
You, who are a thought-reader — can you guess what then occurred to me?. From Wordnik.com. [When We Dead Awaken] Reference
I mean, I turn on my thought-reader, and I get: Okay, so is that -- oooh, pretty colors!. From Wordnik.com. [Central High School, Baton Rouge - Class of 1965] Reference
The thought-reader then opens the paper, looks at it, and slips it into his pocket; he has, however, looked at one of the other papers. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
It is necessary that the player who is to take the part of thought-reader should have a confederate, and the game is then played as follows. From Wordnik.com. [My Book of Indoor Games] Reference
The thought-reader, having arranged that the confederate should write a certain word, commences by asking four members of the company to write each a word upon a piece of paper, fold it up in such a manner that it cannot be seen, and then to pass it on to him. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
Being Irish, Myra Rostrevor was by nature more than a little superstitious and inclined to attach some importance to dreams and omens, and she rode away feeling just a tiny bit scared at heart, and wondering uneasily if perchance Don Carlos de Ruiz was a thought-reader. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
The thought-reader places the slips of paper between his fingers, taking care to put the paper of his confederate between the third and little finger; he then takes the folded paper from between his thumb and first finger and rubs it, folded as it is, over his forehead, at each rub mentioning a letter, as H. rub, A. rub, S.T.I.N.G.S., after which he calls out that some lady or gentleman has written "Hastings.". From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
I think Mr. BALFOUR must be something of a thought-reader. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916] Reference
Their double stare awed me like the gaze of a thought-reader. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
First we shall have Grossman -- you know, the famous thought-reader?. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Culture] Reference
She mentioned an amateur thought-reader greatly in request at the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
Science appeared in the person of a professional thought-reader (female). From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis of Philistia] Reference
Then Nan went on with a persistence which was quite lost upon the thought-reader. From Wordnik.com. [The Forfeit] Reference
The thought-reader merely takes the place of the table as a receiver of muscular vibrations. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
You didn't have to be much of a thought-reader to know what was passing in that sheikh's mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion of Petra] Reference
But surely Dr. Munro will not, he cannot, argue that Mr. Bruce was "an unconscious thought-reader" when. From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
I contemplated them with interest, and Mr. Jacobus disclosed himself as a man of human, homely sympathies, and something of a thought-reader. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
She would have remarked on it to Rose, but that Rose's attention was claimed by the young thought-reader, Mr. Denman, whom Mr. Flaxman had brought up. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
The ordinary observer has no idea of scientific sifting, and in ten minutes I exposed a gentleman who impressed a large London club as "the most wonderful thought-reader in Europe.". From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
To a thought-reader it would have been about as helpful as the face carved upon the handle of an umbrella; a comparison suggested, perhaps, by a certain resemblance to such an object. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
"A man of business like myself, feels bound, if he has any natural turning that way, to become a physiognomist and thought-reader in order not to pay too dearly for bargains; I am happy to say that I rarely blunder.". From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Clemenceau] Reference
All she was conscious of was her mother's sympathetic yet unerring eye; she felt sure that at one glance that wonderful thought-reader had divined everything, and seen through and through their interview that morning. From Wordnik.com. [What's Bred in the Bone] Reference
When the table raps out something known only to this one person, and the startled person admits that the table is right, an uncanny feeling is produced; the table seems at least to be a thought-reader, and on this wave of astonishment the hypothesis of "spirits" rides up triumphantly. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
A renowned thought-reader, wherein he explained what, to so many, has appeared marvellous. From Wordnik.com. [Weapons of Mystery] Reference
390 The idea is that Abu Nowas was a thought-reader such being the prerogative of inspired poets in the East. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
French, but no human being, except a thought-reader, will ever obtain any glimmering of what you mean from your German. ". From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Pilgrimage] Reference
"Then, Mr. Tarling, allow me to congratulate you upon being a thought-reader," said Milburgh, "because I have not revealed my secret thoughts to any human being. From Wordnik.com. [The Daffodil Mystery] Reference
"Not being a thought-reader I can't visualize your disordered mind," said Hamilton, "but Hachures are the conventional method of representing hill features by shading in short vertical lines to indicate the slope and the water flow. From Wordnik.com. [The Keepers of the King's Peace] Reference
Here, I shan't read for the bar; I shall study up for a head boss conjurer, thought-reader, and clairvoyant. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias] Reference
Is it possible that he was an unconscious thought-reader, and was thus guided to make the discovery "of a thing which" could as readily have been inserted there half-an-hour before? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference
Was the woman a thought-reader?. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference
Was Mr. Pyeburt a thought-reader?. From Wordnik.com. [Bones in London] Reference
"You are a bad thought-reader," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Rust] Reference
"Did you expect me to be a thought-reader?". From Wordnik.com. [Your United States Impressions of a first visit] Reference
"Heavens, man, you must be a thought-reader!". From Wordnik.com. [Through Veld and Forest An African Story] Reference
"She must be a thought-reader!. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
The thought-reader places the slips of paper between his fingers, taking care to put the paper of his confederate between the third and little finger; he then takes the folded paper from between his thumb and first finger and rubs it, folded as it is, over his forehead, at each rub mentioning a letter, as O, rub, H, rub, I O, after which he calls out that some lady or gentleman has written "Ohio.". From Wordnik.com. [My Book of Indoor Games] Reference
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