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Example sentences for "conjurer"

Lexicographically close words:
conjunctures; conjuration; conjurations; conjure; conjured; conjurers; conjures; conjuring; conjuro; conjuror
  1. Mrs. Cook assured him, the conjurer was a good Christian; and that he gained all his knowledge by conversing with the stars and planets.

  2. The conjurer was by no means pleased, either with the matter or the manner of this address.

  3. Crabshaw making no return to this salute, he asked if the conjurer had taken an observation, and told him anything.

  4. Poor Timothy was thunderstruck to find the conjurer acquainted with all these circumstances, and begged to know if he might be so bauld as to ax a question or two about his own fortune.

  5. The conjurer taking up the pen, and making a few scratches on the paper, exclaimed, in a terrific accent, "How!

  6. The whole group adjourning into the parlour, the conjurer desired to know of Crowe whether Sir Launcelot was found.

  7. The bottle-conjurer could just as soon have got into his quart bottle as Puff could into the Beaufort coat at the time of which we are writing.

  8. The clam shells and ball were brought to light in a simple manner, the conjurer not touching his hands to his mouth, but spitting them on the ground as soon as they appeared between his teeth.

  9. Well, the manifestations of a conjurer are occasionally astounding.

  10. Home was a conjurer of consummate skill and ingenuity.

  11. To cross from one window to another by ordinary means was clearly impossible, and it would be a brave conjurer indeed who would essay such a feat at a distance of eighty-five feet from the ground.

  12. Somebody told Uncle Martin to go ter a old conjurer and let the doctors go cause they wan't doing nothing for her anyway.

  13. The conjurer said if they had a caught the bug she would a lived.

  14. The conjurer claimed to bear a mission high: Mysterious omens of the earth and sky He knew to read; his medicine could find In time of need the buffalo, and bind In sleep the senses of the enemy.

  15. She paused a moment, then with furtive tread Close to the tipi glided like a thief; With lips apart, and eager bended head, She listened there to what the conjurer said.

  16. Of all the conjurers of his day he was the most famous and the most successful, always, of course, excepting that Corsican conjurer who ruled for so many years the destinies of France.

  17. Every conjurer arranges a series to suit his own taste, and the examples we have here selected will be sufficient for the guidance of amateurs.

  18. To palm a card, to make the pass, to force a card, to make a false shuffle, to sight a card, are necessary accomplishments for the conjurer to learn and practise.

  19. To bring out the four bowls the conjurer must, after exposing the first two, have the pocket (Fig.

  20. A conjurer should always have his eyes fixed intently on his audience, and keep up during the exhibition of his tricks an ever flowing talk or "patter.

  21. The object of the conjurer is always not to be found out.

  22. Robert Houdin states that at least an hour a day for a fortnight should be devoted to practising the "pass" before the conjurer appears before an audience.

  23. The conjurer should dispense with all grotesque attire, ordinary evening or morning dress being ample.

  24. The conjurer may further remark that he will be open and above board, that he will pass coins from himself to some one of the audience unseen, and without the knowledge of that one himself.

  25. Dee was a famous conjurer with the crystal in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

  26. The conjurer often wore a girdle of lion's skin with the name of God written on it, and the Solomon's circle he described with a bright knife, on the blade of which were written certain mystic words.

  27. In the centre of the entrance hung a bell which the conjurer begged the Welshman to beware of touching.

  28. Is a priest and a conjurer in their proper habits.

  29. I suppose here is something omitted, and that the conjurer should have been introduced in his proper dress, as the sequel of the story seems to mean.

  30. First, the chief conjurer enters within the partition in the dark, and may undiscerned move the image as he pleases.

  31. The conjurer often shuts himself in his tent and abstains from food for days till his earthly grossness thins away, and the spirits and things unseen are constrained to appear at his behest.

  32. George Clifford, incapacitated for service at the front, employs his great talents as a conjurer to raise money for the soldiers.

  33. Grushnitski, with his lorgnette, was sitting in the front row, and the conjurer had recourse to him every time he needed a handkerchief, a watch, a ring and so forth.

  34. They drew back a little from the entrance and motioned to the supposed conjurer to enter.

  35. The little knot of Indians drew back in a body, and suffered, as they thought, the conjurer and his inspired assistant to proceed.

  36. It's as common for a conjurer to alter his paint as for a buck in the settlements to change his finery.

  37. A conjurer must have his time, like a straggling priest in the settlements.

  38. Moreover, there is little doubt that he must have met some wandering conjurer from India, who told him about the tricks of the mango plant, and how t is sent up to the sky.

  39. The conjurer despises his congregation; if the priest despises any one, it must be himself.

  40. It was mostly the fruit of our first and most natural sin--the habit of regarding ourselves as conjurers rather than priests, for the definition is that a conjurer is apart from his audience, while a priest is a part of his.

  41. John Thomas was summoned to attend the ladies with a dark lantern, and forth they set on their perilous visit to the conjurer at his dreadful abode in Hangman's Lane.

  42. It was that the widow meant to consult the conjurer that very night.

  43. I am forced to allude to the conjurer again and his forced card.

  44. Fancy finding the conjurer out like that.

  45. The success of the experiment depends upon the ability of the conjurer to force the card when and how he will.

  46. The card has disappeared, the conjurer is baffled.

  47. You know what a conjurer means when he speaks of forcing a card on a spectator?

  48. The conjurer in this case chose me to force his card upon.

  49. We will assume, for the sake of argument, that you are the conjurer and I am the silly heedless spectator who is marked out as the involuntary accomplice.

  50. Of course, our conjurer knows where the stone is.

  51. But I see that the conjurer is not so disconcerted as he might be, because he can always fall back upon his bully method whereby he sometimes disguises failure and leads up to a success in a fresh line.

  52. As the Blue Stone of Ghan is a ruby, he naturally suggests rubies, much as the common conjurer with his magic bottle induces his assistant on the stage to choose the kind of liquid he wants to dispense.

  53. A company of ladies and gentlemen sat sipping Maiwein and Mark gräfler, while a conjurer entertained them with his tricks.

  54. The conjurer threw the watch into the mortar and grasped a sledge hammer from the table.

  55. The brow of the conjurer was clouded with a gathering frown.

  56. The reputation of the conjurer was rapidly sinking below zero.

  57. The conjurer made a few rapid passes with his feet and exhibited the hat crushed beyond recognition.

  58. My little nieces have a party every year, and it is a serious business to find a change from the everlasting conjurer and magic-lantern.

  59. The conjurer wants to begin, and the children are scrambling over the chairs in the most hopeless fashion.

  60. I arrived at the hour appointed, and found that the children were dancing, and that a conjurer was engaged as well as myself.

  61. We waited our turn together, the conjurer and I, in a dreary little room, with a dreary little gas fire that sent all its warmth up the chimney.

  62. Perhaps this is a work of beneficence; and perhaps our brave conjurer in his cabalistic robe is a philanthropist in disguise.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conjurer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.