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By the power of his address and wit he invested the most insignificant feats of legerdemain with a peculiar charm.
MAGIC, STAGE ILLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC DIVERSIONS INCLUDING TRICK PHOTOGRAPHYALBERT A. HOPKINS
This was a sort of sleight of hand, in the use of words; and was noticed, at the time, as "legerdemain."
SALEM WITCHCRAFT AND COTTON MATHERCHARLES W. UPHAM
Priests, however, tolerate no rivals, and permit no legerdemain but their own.
GERALD FITZGERALDCHARLES JAMES LEVER
The medium had been warned by friends that Wilmann was an expert professor of legerdemain.
HOURS WITH THE GHOSTS OR, NINETEENTH CENTURY WITCHCRAFTHENRY RIDGELY EVANS
That Merriwell had secured the pair of fives with his three jacks for all of his style of drawing seemed like legerdemain.
FRANK MERRIWELL'S BACKERSBURT L. STANDISH
You would do, by a piece of legerdemain, what you have not the courage to attempt openly.
SIR BROOK FOSSBROOKE, VOLUME I.CHARLES JAMES LEVER
All eyes were fixed upon his fingers, in a vain endeavour to detect the legerdemain.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOL. 64 NO. 396 OCTOBER 1848VARIOUS
He did not care much for any sort of diversion, except tricks of high German artists and legerdemain.
THE HISTORY OF JOHN BULLJOHN ARBUTHNOT
Elle partit dans la matinée du lendemain, "She took part in the morning performance of legerdemain."
JOHN BULL, JUNIORMAX O'RELL
He may astonish the natives by his "wonderful feats," but with all his legerdemain he cannot deceive me in any of his movements.
AURICULAR CONFESSION AND POPISH NUNNERIESWILLIAM HOGAN

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