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

It is a strange cantrip, Mary," said the General; "I suppose you'll be going to give him something.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

I don't know how it was done—by some 'devilish cantrip slight.'

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Methought I had recover'd of the Becket, That all was planed and bevell'd smooth again, Save from some hateful cantrip of thine own.

From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

With anxious countenance and attentive ears, they listened to the cantrip effusions of these pretended oracles, which prognosticated the bright or gloomy days of futurity.

From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An