I am a thaumaturge, and these optimates are actors. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
As pandemonium's thaumaturge, the snake, the venom and the sting. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucifer Cantos 4/13] Reference
"In the patient's eyes, the doctor becomes a thaumaturge ..." (p. 275). From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange with Michel Foucault] Reference
You're the wright, Curtice is the pilot and, in a way, engineer, I'm the thaumaturge. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
Eldracher is supposed to be the greatest thaumaturge ever produced by the Brotherhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Swordbearer]
'Four Gospels' begins to be wonderful compared with this miracle of the modern thaumaturge?. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Visit a shaman, enchantress or thaumaturge who (for a fee) will help you rediscover your muse. From Wordnik.com. [Top Ten Things a Writer Does to Write That They Don't Tell Anyone] Reference
Like every licensed thaumaturge, she knew her physical sciences, including the conservation laws. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
Or was its magical action so rarefied and esoteric that only some scholarly armchair-thaumaturge would find any use for it?. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
And surely also of every thaumaturge they might reasonably consult, whether from other government agencies or independent operators. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
To this redemptive mission, every time out, he brings all his many avatars: prophet, citizen, pilgrim, thaumaturge, Sam Spade, and Joe Hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophet] Reference
There, at the feet of a learned thaumaturge, an aged man with long, wispy mustaches and a skin the color of luteous ivory, he had learned much. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
Gassner's reputation as a thaumaturge spread throughout Germany and adjacent countries, and he numbered among his patrons many persons of influence. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The fictional teen thaumaturge has helped make her a top celebrity, one of the most powerful women in the world and a billionaire to boot--so that's perhaps not remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [U.K. Faces Of The Week, Jan. 2-6] Reference
JOHANN JOSEPH GASSNER, who was regarded as a thaumaturge by his partisans, and as a charlatan by his opponents, was born at Bratz, a village of the Austrian Tyrol, August 20, 1727. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
He was slender, this thaumaturge, and darkly handsome, his black heard cropped close; but a vaguely serpentlike streak of white meandered through his short hair, and the red flecks that danced in his eyes drew the gaze, and the will, of anyone foolish enough to look deeply. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
Later, I worked it up to more than 70,000 words with a subplot about a thaumaturge and threw in a handful of Mullah Nasruddinesque stories, and eventually got it published by Maxwell Macmillan Canada just in time for the Robert Maxwell empire to collapse and tumble the book into limbo. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference
But while US law forbids the use of occult lore derived from pre-human sources by unlicensed individuals, and while the treaty forbids its use by the US military as a weapon of war, as far as I know there's no reason why some licensed thaumaturge inside the US army couldn't have asked the late soldier if his mother could read his email. From Wordnik.com. [Science News] Reference
Dr. Johannès no thaumaturge in France dare try to cure it. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
Apuleius is a thaumaturge against whom the faithful need to be warned. From Wordnik.com. [The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura] Reference
Some time after his entrance into the priesthood, he had become the pupil of a thaumaturge of. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
"He had to choose between these two alternatives, either renouncing his mission or becoming a 'thaumaturge.'". From Wordnik.com. [Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890] Reference
A thaumaturge of my acquaintance has saved a good many of the bewitched who without his aid would be howling under hydrotherapeutic douches. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
These ceremonies involve not only the thaumaturge but a permanent group of vestal maidens who move sedately about the temple chambers in distinctive costume and head dress. From Wordnik.com. [歪酷博客 Ycool Blog] Reference
Vauvenargues his bailiwicks - and, treating it as the pilgrimage site of a living thaumaturge, be worshipped as the greatest, the richest, the most revered and most political artist of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
He's the top thaumaturge in China, and also its top secret agent. ". From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
"No, except that the thief is obviously at least a fairly competent thaumaturge, or possesses equivalent powers. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
The soothing of the cigar; the new-made lake reflecting the gleam of hundreds of lanterns; the illuminated pavilion, its whirling company of dancers seen under the uprolled walls; the night, with its strange contrast of a calm southern sky on the one hand pouring down its flood of moonlight, and in the north the great mother-of-pearl dome with its core of vibrant fire; the dance-music throbbing through the lindens; and all this growing out of the unwonted and curious life of the past few months, bore to me again that feeling of being yoked with some thaumaturge of wondrous power for the working of enchantments. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference
Who is he, this smiling thaumaturge?. From Wordnik.com. [Retching With the Stars] Reference
“... the victory which man achieves over the natural forces within him by education and self-mastery, and over the natural forces outside him by inventions and machines, is of more value than controlling nature by the word of a thaumaturge” (1841 ed. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
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