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

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

And that old witch, Eliza— I little guessed she’d play this cantrip on me: But what a jest—Jerusalem, what a jest!

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

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

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