How To Use Sleigh In A Sentence
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If you've been to the crossroads, and made the deal, and got the mojo — which turns out to be dependent on a great deal of hard work and practice, just like sleight-of-hand — wouldn't you maybe get a trifle riled by that kind of misjudgment from time to time?
Cops and Robbers
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The prodigiously capable Louise, for instance, is weighing the relative claims upon her imagination of long jumping and bobsleigh.
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Two weeks after his funeral she was asked to try out for the British bobsleigh team.
The Sun
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A scrunchy havoc of whip, sleigh bells, saxophones, bass guitar, as well as the full forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Nibelung note of a household hammer for good measure, bashed, danced and whirled through this 15-minute non-stop toccata.
BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet
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Next day it was done, with baby Jesus smiling happily and waving from the sleigh.
Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing
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It's nice to think of them picturing Father Christmas and his sleigh whooshing across frosty rooftops, as opposed to me thrashing my way around a soulless out-of-town shopping centre.
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The lack of a bobsleigh run in this country means that she will not return to the ice until October, when she resumes her itinerant winter existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thylacinus macknessi, a specialised thylacinid (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland.
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
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The company accounts show a little financial sleight of hand.
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There's another instructive paradox in skeleton bob and bobsleigh.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's almost a kind of compositional sleight-of-hand, as Sting uses catchy melodies and pop-savvy arrangements to distract our attention away from just how crafty these songs are.
Ten Summoner's Tales
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There's another instructive paradox in skeleton bob and bobsleigh.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only the "scroop" of the runners and jingle of the sleigh-bells seemed to be hammered into the brain, for all eternity.
From Paris to New York by Land
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Both places were full of titled guests invited (or commanded, rather) by Kralta, and we drove in sleighs and skated and tobogganed and revelled by evening and pleasured by night, and it was Vienna in the Arctic, with the Prince always on hand, bland and affable as ever with his popsies around him (one of 'em a new bird, an Italian, who'd replaced the garrulous blonde, no doubt on Kralta's orders) and it was all such enormous fun that I was heartily sick of it.
Watershed
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It's nice to think of them picturing Father Christmas and his sleigh whooshing across frosty rooftops.
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You can almost hear those sleigh bells ringing already.
Times, Sunday Times
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Asked what they had been up to in their alpine retreat, the Teplice coach laughed: ‘Mainly skis, sledges and bobsleighs.’
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They get arrested for sleigh-knapping, which is a serious offense in these parts.
New England Sleigh Ride
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The bobsleigh season runs from October to February.
Times, Sunday Times
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They travelled across the snow in a sleigh.
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Finally, the bags were upstairs, the sleigh put in the barn, and the horses tended.
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And who maketh any doubt, that if those sleights and trickes, whereof this dayes argument may give us occasion to speake, should afterwardes be put in execution by men: would it not minister just reason, of punishing themselves for beguiling you, knowing, that (if you please) you have the like abilitie in your owne power?
The Decameron
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Father Christmas travels in a sleigh pulled by reindeer.
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For the coach we (three passengers) were in, was built like an omnibus-sleigh on wheels, with a high seat and "dasher" in front, so that we could not see what it was that drew our ark, and therefore I climbed up in the driver's perch to overlook our motors.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
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Give them skeleton bobsleigh and you get empty seats.
Times, Sunday Times
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A ride through the forests on a troika - a sleigh pulled by three horses - is a real treat.
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The events, which include ski-jumping and bobsleigh, take time to master.
Times, Sunday Times
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Great stalactites hung from the roof and dripped water upon the floor, on which numerous small stalagmites were forming, where they had not been crumbled away by the passage and repassage of sleighs.
Jacqueline of Golden River
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My issue is not so much with my company, but with the government's sleight of hand over this.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two weeks after his funeral she was asked to try out for the British bobsleigh team.
The Sun
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There is every chance that he performed a little sleight of hand and other conjuring.
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Here, three Santas forego their sleighs in favor of an underground commute.
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'And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things.
The Story of the Volsungs
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A reindeer sleigh ride was more leisurely but just as wonderful.
The Sun
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The prince's Romanov-style beard may be designed to hide a bobsleighing scar but he turns heads wherever he goes in Russia because of his physical likeness to Tsar Nicholas II, the cousin of King George V, his grandfather.
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The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries.
Half a Dozen Girls
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This consistently upbeat catalogue song lists those relatively ordinary phenomena which exhilarate and hearten Maria, from raindrops on roses to doorbells and sleighbells to wild geese on moonlit flight.
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Everybody enjoys watching him play, he's so sleight of foot.
The Sun
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Twinkling sleighs, sporting six pairs of reindeer and a fat-free Santa, decorate even the most modest of houses.
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And as well as the skiing, there is curling, skating, luge, sleigh rides and even hot-air ballooning.
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York-based steel band Steel Expression added a modern twist to some festive classics and their version of Sleigh Ride received a long ovation from the audience.
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He freely admitted that magic depended on deception and sleight of hand but said: ‘Origami is real magic!’
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In the winter, sleighs generally took the sawlog road along the short-cut to Forest
'Lizbeth of the Dale
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The seemingly slipshod construction and use of everyday materials belies the structural sleight-of-hand employed, and it is a startling, playful introduction to the exhibition.
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Convenient oversights like this are all part of that sleight of hand this administration specializes in to pursue its aims.
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He failed to get on board when the stars were tackling a bobsleigh run.
The Sun
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Through alliteration, anaphora, parallelism and slant-rhyme, Sleigh builds momentum into the eleven, rhythmic couplets and suggests a train's smooth travel.
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She was looking for a sprinter who could become a bobsleigh pusher, giving her team a competitive edge with explosive starts.
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Sadly, the move is a sleight of hand that will make no difference to how much it actually costs to heat and power our homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of the sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.
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It is a food label sleight-of-hand that Bruce Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit advocacy group, calls a "rip-off" for consumers.
Nutrition buzzwords make hay out of grains of truth
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It is derived from "slee," in Dutch; which is pronounced like "sleigh.
Satanstoe
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A cocoon of silence and stillness surrounded them as the sleigh cut thorough the snow.
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The Winter Olympics feature events such as the skeleton, the bobsleigh and snowboarding, as well as traditional winter sports such as ice skating, skiing and curling.
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The athletes will compete to win medals in eighty-four events. They will test their skills in seven winter sports: biathlon, bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, luge, skating and skiing.
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The treasure of the piece has to be Donner and Blitzen, an archetypal Christmas track complete with sleighbells; full of enough good will to summon up the spirit of festivity in May.
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So, amid fairytale fire torches and twinkling candles, we were led to our very own reindeer sleigh in the middle of an enchanted snow forest.
The Sun
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Their skill and sleight of foot are bound to yield many goals this season.
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The lack of a bobsleigh run in this country means that she will not return to the ice until October, when she resumes her itinerant winter existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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This action must have been observed during the most ancient times, as, according to Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood,21 the word toad expresses in all the languages of Europe the habit of swelling.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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We took his meat home, and had his skin tanned for a sleigh robe.
Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography
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Jamaica's bobsleigh team may have to ask their rivals to lend them equipment after their luggage was lost in transit to Russia.
Times, Sunday Times
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The safe ways were "bushed" by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.
Anne's House of Dreams
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Couples will also be able to take a romantic reindeer sleigh ride and husky dog sled ride, and cross frozen lakes on a snow scooter.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can almost hear those sleigh bells ringing already.
Times, Sunday Times
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District Director Gordy Ainsleigh said the board is opposed to what he describes as a raid on what has traditionally been an important source of capital funding in the Auburn-Meadow Vista area for parks and recreation facilities.
Auburn Journal - Top Stories
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Lady Winsleigh studied the lovely face, eloquent with love and truth, for some moments in silence; -- a kind of compunction pricked her conscience.
Thelma
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The Tertiary fossil fields of Riversleigh are apparently confined to the watershed of the spring fed Gregory River within the Karumba Basin in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
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Couples will also be able to take a romantic reindeer sleigh ride and husky dog sled ride, and cross frozen lakes on a snow scooter.
Times, Sunday Times
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It looks like a lovely one-horse open ice sleigh, dashing through the snow.
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But to the younger generation, a winter holiday means action- and down through the 'Swamp hollow' and over the hill road they go, afoot or in sleighs, through the drifting snow, to a barn dance at the Centre.
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Team GB's most successful ever Games came at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936, when it won gold in ice hockey, silver in figure skating and bronze in the bobsleigh.
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She cried on the reindeer sleigh ride.
The Sun
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Lesleigh Green from the Royal Flying Doctor Service says the toddler was at a day-care centre in Bencubbin when the dugite bit her.
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Then another reindeer and sleigh took us to a wooden cabin deep in the forest.
The Sun
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Jersey City argued in federal district (that is, trial) court that the display complied with the Constitution (as interpreted in a number of Supreme Court decisions) because the sleigh and the Santa Claus and the Frosty the Snowman and the Kwanzaa ribbons that it added to the creche and the menorah "demystified" thtose two religious symbols -- that is, drained them of their religious meaning.
Is That Legal?: Will Sam Alito Respect Earlier Opinions With Which He Disagrees?
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BBC4 followed up by airing a narrow boat trip along a canal and a sleigh ride.
The Sun
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ALL Santa wants for Christmas is a new barn, shed or stable for his sleigh.
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Instead, by some sleight of mind, it distorts our idea of the pool of possibilities.
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North London or Oxbridge, Bob 321 Sleight was slime whichever way you looked at it.
FALLEN WOMEN
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Sleigh is an important means of transportation in this area.
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Take your holiday décor beyond the traditional sleigh and reindeer by adding some new, festive friends.
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They didn't have dog sleighs, they didn't have skin boats, they didn't learn from the Inuit how to kill seals at breeding holes in the winter.
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His athletic career goal was to make the Olympics, whether in track and field, bobsleigh or any other sport.
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The sleight of hand was impressive.
Times, Sunday Times
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When literary agent Sarah Yake shopped around Kirsten Kaschock's debut novel 'Sleight' this year, she thought it would be a shoo-in with New York's top publishers.
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They hunt reindeer, herd reindeer, eat reindeer meat, drink reindeer milk, ride on reindeer's backs, drive reindeer-drawn sleighs, wear clothes and shoes made of reindeer skins.
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Nash also does not need sleight-of-hand tricks to get the ball to well-defended scorers. Instead, he is a mind reader.
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As well as travelling through the snowscape on huskey-drawn sleds, reindeer-drawn sleighs and snowmobiles, the group also enjoyed skiing and ice-fishing sessions.
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Houses squatted beneath thick blankets of fresh snow and a horse-drawn sleigh clopped past, bells jingling.
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A sumptuous Russian sleigh drawn by two splendid black horses, with a statuesque driver in ebony handling the ribbons, attracted the attention of the crowd as it dashed down the avenue and paused near the capitol steps.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
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Twinkling sleighs, sporting six pairs of reindeer and a fat-free Santa, decorate even the most modest of houses.
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On Christmas Eve, starting at midnight (Mountain Standard Time, which is 2 a.m. on the East Coast), Web site visitors can watch Santa prepare his sleigh, check his list, and get ready for his journey.
Government Computer News Current Issue
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Horses and oxen could be attached to sleighs, carioles, fledges, and the like, to bring them long distances over the frozen waterways and icy ground.
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This is a gang whose members are masters of subterfuge and sleight of hand, and they play for big money, jewels, banks and other high-security projects.
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Archive 2008-02-01
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But that no man should imagine that our forren trades of merchandise haue bene comprised within some few yeeres or at least wise haue not bene of any long continuance, let vs now withdraw our selues from our affaires in Russia, and ascending somewhat higher, let vs take a sleight suruey of our traffiques and negotiations in former ages.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Horse-drawn sleighs jingle by, carrying passengers on the occasional Sunday outing.
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He used a very old fairground trick of sleight of hand.
The Sun
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Connell, in particular, outlines how bibliomaniacal self-indulgence threatened the ideological sleight-of-hand that invited Britons to understand others 'private properties as part of the common stock of the national heritage, and to understand gentlemanly book collectinglike that of Jane
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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We're a bit like the Jamaican bobsleigh team.
The Sun
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Whilst a sportscotland spokesperson confirmed that Scottish bobsleigh athletes are not ineligible for funding, he is currently financially unsupported.
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Coffins were transported in improvised sleighs - usually barn doors taken from their hinges and pulled with ropes.
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A reindeer sleigh ride was more leisurely but just as wonderful.
The Sun
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South of the Inn, a building comprised of quarters for grooms, carriages, four-in-hands, sleighs, pungs, gentleman roadsters and a stable for 90 horses was erected.
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It was taken by sleight of hand and then sold to a pawnbroker.
The Sun
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Sleigh is an important means of transportation in this area.
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‘And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair of face, ill in temper and fickle of mood, is called the backbiter of the Asa, and speaker of evil redes and shame of all gods and men; he has above all that craft called sleight, and cheats all in all things.
The Story of the Volsungs
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The trains are pulled by a fleet of electric trolleys, which look like the bastard offspring of a bobsleigh and a golf buggy.
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Even though this hype should be about as convincing as thinking that your Christmas gifts were delivered by a sleigh instead of UPS, we post-holiday individuals really want to believe that swallowing some "magic crystals" or pills, or drinking a unique tea will turn our pudge into muscle and dissolve our fat.
Judith J. Wurtman, PhD: What Diet Scams Will the New Year Bring?
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As we sauntered forward I noticed all about lesser circles where the yellow-girted ones were drawing delighted laughter from good-tempered crowds by tricks of sleight-of-hand, and posturing, or tossing gilded cups and balls as though they were catering, as indeed they were, for outgrown children.
Gulliver of Mars
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Suddenly a one-horse sleigh came running toward Mitsuko and Hideo.
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Tad could do by pulling on the reins and calling soothingly to the animal, he raced with the sleigh over the railroad tracks.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South
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Equally distinctive are Lartigue's photos of people zooming around in the latest high-powered vehicles - bobsleighs, go-karts, racing cars, rickety airplanes.
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A knee injury forced him off the athletics track but he turned his hand to other sports and represented Great Britain in the Olympic bobsleigh team in 1988.
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We now realize that much of Burt's research was presented with a statistical sleight of hand.
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PC James Hare told deputy coroner John Sleightholme that shortly after the incident he spoke to maintenance worker Eric Butters, who was called to the ride when one of the cars failed to climb an incline and was held by a roll-back arrester.
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Now is a time for cynics to drop their superior sneers, swap their sarcasm for a sleigh and listen to the Santa in their soul.
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The sleigh was on one runner, heeling like a yacht in a wind.
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It is also deftly staged using an impressive sleight of hand and sleight of eye.
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We have new exit procedures for leaving the Elmsleigh car park, but it does not help vehicles to leave.
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The sleigh was on one runner, heeling like a yacht in a gate.
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Even the statistical sleight-of-hand that constitutes the current measure of consumer price inflation is at a nine-year high and the GDP implicit price deflator is at a five-year peak.
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Nothing to do with the kind of sleight-of-hand obfuscation you're trying to pull here, equating "all other Democrats" with Lieberman.
CT-SEN: Lieberman Won't Say Whether Dems Should Win House
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I particularly found the bobsleighing (Two-Man, Skeleton, and Luge) to have a great sense of speed due to good use of motion blur.
Cheap Ass Gamer (US Feed)
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Again and again, with only minor variations, we see this sleight of hand at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a little sleight of hand, I capitalized the word Eclipse there.
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However, most of what I do magically tends to involve internal subconscious manipulation, sleight of mind.
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Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of the sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.
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If it was called magic we would have expected some trickery and sleight of hand.
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No sleigh bells, peat fires or roasting chestnuts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The show will see a slew of stars attempt various Winter Olympic sports such as bobsleighing, slalom skiing and skeleton.
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Jamaica's bobsleigh team may have to ask their rivals to lend them equipment after their luggage was lost in transit to Russia.
Times, Sunday Times
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How do the conmen work-sleight of hand; marked cards; switched or loaded dice, it's all here.
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Some 50 kilometres inland, the mountain village of Krasnaya Polyana (Red Meadow) is the epicentre of the second cluster of facilities: skiing, snowboarding, bobsleighing and ski jumping.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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The trick is done simply by sleight of hand.
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You can't reveal their hidden microphones or mimic their tricks with sleight of hand.
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Face it: the four-poster or sleigh bed is a lot more inviting than the standard-issue metal frame with fake wood headboard that is found at many motels.
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Sleigh is an important means of transportation in this area.
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I have set the wheels in motion to sell Endsleigh Court.
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Their hideout has been festively decorated with Christmas presents, poinsettias and a sleigh.
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Ha! Ha! Now I have got you," said the grocery man to the had boy, the other morning, as he came in and jumped upon the counter and tied the end of a ball of twine to the tail of a dog, and "sicked" the dog on another dog that was following a passing sleigh, causing the twine to pay out until the whole ball was scattered along the block.
Peck's Compendium of Fun
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Another time, they play at the edge of the stage and execute a kind of sleight of body, marching off stage, quickly changing clothes before marching back on in another guise, repeating this several times in a matter of seconds or minutes.
Mr. Memory : Bev Vincent
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During the previous night, however, the sky had cleared, and now the air was filled with those familiar brumal sounds, the scraping of shovels and the ringing of sleighbells, that usually make such a pleasant appeal to those within-doors; but the bishop was merely moved to impatient longing for the spring.
The Mayor of Warwick
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If you are keen to play Santa this year but are missing a boep, not an elderly grey man with a long beard or don't have a team of reindeer and a sleigh - fret not, I have the perfect solution for you!
Muti
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What we do is lead the world at inventing sports: rugger, football, cricket, golf and - in the early 20th century - competitive skiing and bobsleighing.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The mischievous feline gets into trouble as he tries to help a young reindeer home in time to pull Santa's sleigh.
The Sun
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Yvonne Sleightholme was arrested soon afterwards, but before she could be brought to trial she went blind - a condition referred to in those days as hysterical blindness.
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A giant shark pulling a sleigh?
The Sun
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During these months, its countless lakes freeze solid, providing perfect surfaces for skidoo driving, reindeer sleighing and Siberian husky safaris.
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Bob sleighing was popular in and around La Plagne long before the Olympic course was built.
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Somewhat incongruously she also described the amusements of the respectable ladies and gentlemen of Deadwood, happily recalling picnics, tennis games, church socials, sleighing parties, and balls.
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We have just about cracked curling and skeleton bobsleigh made a weekend entry into the national consciousness.
Times, Sunday Times
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They hadn't been able to get their hands on sleds, but a sleigh ride was always fun on a snowy evening.
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Their story is one of unlikelihood and guts, with echoes of the famous Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Calgary Games.
GB women's volleyball team determined to get to 2012 Olympics
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There was more traffic on the roads: single riders on llamas or deer, sleds and sleighs, some wheeled wagons taking it very easy.
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Most of these conjuring tricks depend on sleight of hand.
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Couples will also be able to take a romantic reindeer sleigh ride and husky dog sled ride, and cross frozen lakes on a snow scooter.
Times, Sunday Times
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He failed to get on board when the stars were tackling a bobsleigh run.
The Sun
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All we need now is some snow and a few bobsleigh runs and there will be no stopping us.
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He failed to get on board when the stars were tackling a bobsleigh run.
The Sun
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As for bobsleigh and luge, the sprint push-start is crucial for the force to be with you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whereas curling, skating, and sleighing were available elsewhere, snowshoeing and tobogganing were specifically Canadian winter sports, which had to be experienced in situ.
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The sleigh itself must qualify as an aircraft, and as such has to be licensed by and have a certificate of airworthiness from the Civil Aviation Authority.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Give them skeleton bobsleigh and you get empty seats.
Times, Sunday Times
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For all her flightiness, there was seemingly nothing she could not get done by sleight of hand or obtain, if occasionally at shocking black-market prices.
A Covert Affair
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To save one's own strength, to defend oneself by sleight of body while drawing from one's opponent all his strength: this is the art of Ju-jitsu.
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While the game does indeed contain fourteen different events, many of these are variations of similar endeavors such as skiing, snowboarding, bobsleighing, and speed skating.
Cheap Ass Gamer (US Feed)
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There were none skilled in managing dog-sleighs and the horses very soon died in the cold, deep snow.
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Trilophosuchus rackhami gen. et sp. nov., a new crocodilian from the early Miocene limestones of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.
The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific
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By some psychological sleight, it can actually make winners feel like losers.
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The official or servile class includes the manciple, or buyer for a fraternity of templars, otherwise called an achatour, whence Cator, Chater a, the Reeve, an estate steward, so crafty that — "Ther nas baillif, ne herde, nor oother hyne, That he ne knew his sleighte and his covyne" and finally the Cook, or Coke — "To boylle the chicknes and the marybones.
The Romance of Names
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That shadow passing in front of the moon, was that a team of reindeer pulling a sleigh through the sky?
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There was more traffic on the roads: single riders on llamas or deer, sleds and sleighs, some wheeled wagons taking it very easy.
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Forced choice and sleight-of-hand are not only the prevue of stage magicians, though.
The Art of Deception
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We were supposed to do a two-man bobsleigh, but I didn't like the look of it.
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Galliano has a winning way with a drape and a ruffle, which is handy, since Portman will be four months pregnant, so expect some sleight of hand in the tummy area.
The Guardian World News
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He slammed the ANC for its "sleight-of-hand" politics, accused that organisation of "conning" and attempting to marginalise the Zulu nation, and of fanning violence to strengthen its argument for a speedy move to elections.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Then, suddenly, like a cork popping from a champagne bottle, the sleigh breaks free into a dark world.
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A number of Colorado outfitters offer dinner sleigh rides that range from casual to elegant.
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So, amid fairytale fire torches and twinkling candles, we were led to our very own reindeer sleigh in the middle of an enchanted snow forest.
The Sun
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By some statistical sleight of hand the government have produced figures showing that unemployment has recently fallen.
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We're a bit like the Jamaican bobsleigh team.
The Sun
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Descriptions of the skull and non-vestigial dentition of a Miocene platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp.) from Riversleigh, Australia, and the problem of monotreme origins.
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
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Percussion is composed of sleigh bells, tambourine, xylophone and kettle drums.
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Scared by a storm, Twinklestar, the least reliable reindeer, bolts -- causing Santa and his sleigh to crash-land.
When Santa Fell To Earth by Cornelia Funke: Book summary
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We can only hope that the vice president will be given the chance to testify about this before a grand jury, after the election, when the Democrats take Congress as the kind of skewered logic that condones torture by linguistic sleight of hand is impeachable, in the best sense of the word.
"a little silly"
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Couples will also be able to take a romantic reindeer sleigh ride and husky dog sled ride, and cross frozen lakes on a snow scooter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once my sleigh is packed and ready to go, I'll be off on my journey around the world.
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A brave commission that ignored one thing about ski-jumping, bobsleigh, the skeleton, downhill and speed-skating.
The Sun
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The lack of a bobsleigh run in this country means that she will not return to the ice until October, when she resumes her itinerant winter existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of the sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.
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I brought in bells to show the kids, and a picture of a sleigh.
When in doubt, throw hard candy
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Each has its own fire and sauna; ideal for warming up after your reindeer sleigh ride or snowmobile safari.
Times, Sunday Times
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Needless to say, providing pork often comes with a little senatorial sleight of hand.
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You could populate an interesting subcategory of composers with a particular flair for that kind of sleight-of-hand.
Categorical denials
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People beyond thirty or forty years of age remember winter woollies, slides on frozen footpaths and weeks of sleighing on hillsides and roads.
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Create impressive graphic designs on your walls; all it takes is courage and a little sleight of hand.
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You can almost hear those sleigh bells ringing already.
Times, Sunday Times
