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

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

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 Wilson, John Mackay

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

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 Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis