sorcery

The two of them crafted a business plan for a bookstore, one that wouldn’t look out of place in a sword and sorcery fantasy novel, with a hidden speakeasy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

This tangent of a tangent was patently engineered to provide a Harry Potter-style faceoff of sorcery skills, but for all its supposed drama it comes off as pretty silly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

That message sang me to sleep on many nights, and that story explains why it’s stayed with me all this time — it is a masterpiece of melodic sorcery and science, as one.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Ubaldo Vitali declares gold to be “vulgar,” and the silver upon which he performs his sorcery to be the most beautiful precious metal in the world, one that reflects light like no other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

She asked him again about sorcery, and listened wide-eyed to all he told her, so that he fell to boasting again.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert, "were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorceries."

From Time Magazine Archive

The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them.

From Time Magazine Archive

With such sorceries at her command, she should soon have no more need of the feeble tricks of alchemists and pyromancers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

But men repented not, nor turned away From their dark idols, or their sorceries, From worshipping their gods of gold, or stone, Or brass, or silver!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by George Gilfillan