How To Use Conjuror In A Sentence
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At the crowing of the cock, the extravagant and erring spirit (that is, the spendthrift of a defendant) whether he be drinking arrack punch at Vauxhall, champaigne at the Mount, or brandy and water at the Eccentries, must kick off his glass-slipper, and hobble back to St. George's Fields, like the lame bottle-conjuror of Le Sage.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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As well as being a comedian, he is considered one of the country's best magicians, certainly one of its sharpest card conjurors.
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To perform this work, slave healers (midwives, conjurors, diviners, and herbalists) selected from among a lengthy menu of strategies.
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The conjuror defies us to discern how the trick is done.
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The conjuror's magic delighted the children.
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The audience craned forward as their conjuror came to the crucial part of his trick.
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`Then we'll just have to find out who is holding the hat with the rabbit inside it... who the conjuror is.
COVER STORY
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A central atmosphere would reduce them to the level of the conjuror or the muscular suggestionist.
The Prophet of Berkeley Square
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In cases where self-interest and ambition are the basis of this peculiarity of temperament, and in an age when the conjuror and the alchemist were the companions and even the idols of princes, it is easy to trace the steps by which a gifted sage retains his ascendancy among the ignorant.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
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The audience craned forward as their conjuror came to the crucial part of his trick.
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Mostly, though, movement was all; it was like a conjuror's trick: it blurred the reality.
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Both his mastery of the irascible and unpredictable George II and his control of a previously unmanageable Parliament were portrayed in countless broadsides and prints as the arts of a veritable political conjuror.
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These great conjurors are generally sought for in the City; and in truth the cauldrons are kept boiling though the result of the process is seldom absolute rejuvenescence.
The Way We Live Now
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The audience craned forward as their conjuror came to the crucial part of his trick.
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The plot was brewed by some Coromantee and Paw Paw negroes who had procured the services of a conjuror to make them invulnerable; and it may have been joined by several Spanish or Portuguese Indians or mestizoes who had been captured at sea and unwarrantably, as they contended, reduced to slavery.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
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'Abracadabra,'said the conjuror as he pulled the rabbit from the hat.
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The children watched the conjuror in silent wonder.
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The boys looked at the conjuror in silent wonder.
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Afterwards they were entertained by a conjuror and a mind-reading act.
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The boys looked at the conjuror in silent wonder.
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The children watched the conjuror in silent wonder.
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The audience craned forward as their conjuror came to the crucial part of his trick.
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The conjuror made a few passes with his hand over the hat.
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And, ‘people of unimpeachable character’ have also reported that I and many other conjurors performed many miracles, over the years, and they were quite wrong.
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The audience craned forward as their conjuror came to the crucial part of his trick.
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Street conjurors in India (jadu-wallahs) perform this trick by preparing small pellets of ashes and concealing them at the base of their fingers, then working their fists to powder the pellets and produce the flow of fine ash.
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On the other hand, the gathering of seers and sages, prophets and priests, conjurors and con men, was a strategic assemblage of those who wielded some degree of power.
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'Abracadabra,'said the conjuror as he pulled the rabbit from the hat.
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Used to be you could go to a nightclub and see a comedian, a brass band and a conjuror for the price of a couple drinks.
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The audience craned forward as their conjuror came to the crucial part of his trick.
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I judged the fellows to be strolling conjurors, and the boy with the bag to be carrying the tools of their trade.
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barmaid--and finally married a conjuror, a stage illusionist called Kafko.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Coupled with a 6-0 thrashing at Chelsea a week later it was a start that left a 37-year-old manager in his second Premier League season looking exposed, if not out of his depth, yet with a conjuror's insouciance Martínez pulled an unlikely win at Spurs out of the hat next to quieten a restless audience.
Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish
