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

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

Well, this sort of cantrip was 'common form,' as we say at the Bar, in Hollond's Space, and he was very curious about the why and wherefore of Sleep.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

"Mistress Mary," said Elspeth, "you never told us anything before that was not true; tell us if this was a Hallowe'en cantrip, and make an end of it."

From The Monastery by Scott, Walter, Sir

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