cantrip
Example Sentences
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To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls: "I've got a good thing!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, with cantrip kisses seven, Three times round with kisses seven, Warp'd and woven there spun we Arms and legs and flaming hair, Like a whirlwind on the sea.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
By some "cantrip slight," it had no doubt brought her there to be ready in case of accidents, and it now left her to be caught in its stead.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by John Mackay Wilson
For, by what cantrip it wad ill beseem a man to judge, she was hingin’ frae a single nail an’ by a single wursted thread for darnin’ hose.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
I don't know how it was done—by some 'devilish cantrip slight.'
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
