jugglery
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Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly.
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There is no limit to this sort of verbal jugglery.
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That did not end the amazing jugglery, for a few days later the Stevens Hotel gave notes to Illinois Life not in exchange for the third mortgage but for $700,000 cash.
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Far from being mere slices of life, or glimpses of fantasy or of psychological freaks, they demonstrate once again that the short story is not only for light jugglery.
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There were quieter expeditions ashore, other days, with the Master Herbal who taught the ways and properties of things that grow; and the Master Hand taught sleight and jugglery and the lesser arts of Changing.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"I have told you already to be gone," replied Jane, angrily; "you will not get any money from me by your juggleries, you ill-favoured monster."
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
For all these things—a senseless mass of juggleries to the uninformed eye—are really growths of the human spirit struggling to develop its life, and full of instruction for those who learn to understand them.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
It revealed natural tendencies, and confirmed Tyope in the belief that the Navajos were born wizards, that their juggleries and performances, some of which are indeed startling, revealed the possession of higher powers.
From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
The first twining of feeling and belief is here, the earliest of many of those juggleries of Nature which make a fool of reason.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
He does not terrify and bully us into acknowledging Him by ghostly juggleries in darkened rooms, and by vapid exhibitions addressed to our outward senses.
From Confessions and Criticisms by Julian Hawthorne
