"Conjuring trick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... savouring her face, and they were still ten yards from the pit-shaft, she suddenly disappeared from his vision, as it were by a conjuring trick. He had a horrible sensation in his spinal column. He was not the man to mistrust the evidence of his senses, and he knew, therefore, that he had ...
— Tales of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... proceed more easily afterwards, I will roughly recapitulate them now. I felt in my bones; first, that this world does not explain itself. It may be a miracle with a supernatural explanation; it may be a conjuring trick, with a natural explanation. But the explanation of the conjuring trick, if it is to satisfy me, will have to be better than the natural explanations I have heard. The thing is magic, true or false. Second, I came to feel as if magic must have a meaning, and meaning must have some one to mean ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... Why, we shall be going a thousand times faster than the quickest conjuring trick that was ever done. Come along! Which way shall ...
— Twelve Stories and a Dream • H. G. Wells
... the note he was writing; at which Li Tee, as if struck by some coincident recollection, lifted up his long sleeve, which served him as a pocket, and carelessly shook out a letter on the table like a conjuring trick. The Editor, with a reproachful glance at him, opened it. It was only the ordinary request of an agricultural subscriber—one Johnson—that the Editor would "notice" a giant radish grown by the subscriber and ...
— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte
... the card house rising under his hands, story by story. He never hesitated or faltered. It was really almost like a conjuring trick. ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie |
