"Magically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... blinds, my dear!" The fact was that Mrs. Maldon measured the time between the lighting of gas and the drawing down of blinds by tenths of a second—such was her fear lest in that sinister interval the whole prying town might magically gather in the street outside and peer into the ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett
... panic, the result of her interview with the Guatemalan general at the apartment house, vanished magically. She sat down at this unexpected friend's table ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... sat very still, I, of course, expecting a bite every moment. Presently I saw a bonefish not six feet from the boat. Where he came from was a mystery, but he appeared like magic, and suddenly, just as magically, he vanished. ...
— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey
... given herself—informing him, in fact, that he ought to go, for his uncle is dead and his country in danger. Only, she reminds him of his pledges, and warns him of the misfortunes which await his breach of them. He is then magically wafted back on ship-board as ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... adoring him. Nothing could have been more unlike the Amherst she fancied she knew than this act of irrational anger which had magically lifted the darkness from his spirit; yet, magically also, it gave him back to her, made them one flesh once more. And suddenly the pressure of opposed emotions became too strong, and she ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton
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