英语词汇“hocus-pocus”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

He steadied himself in time to hear Snape say, “— your little bit of hocus-pocus. I’m waiting.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I knew it! I knew all you guys were going to crack up someday if you didn’t quit fooling around with this hocus-pocus stuff.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I call it hocus-pocus,” said Grandpa, laughing at her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"And what makes you so sure that science is so reliable? Or that the university crowd has any better answers than the hocus-pocus gang?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Right. But this stuff is all, like... mystical. What we were talking about on the phone today? I was talking about reality, real people, not a bunch of hocus-pocus." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all religions it is based on hocus-pocus, misdirection and delusion. The prophets of modern dieting want you to feel guilty about food 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Her books, which draw on Norse and other mythologies, created generally recognizable worlds except for the ubiquity of spells, trances and hocus-pocus. Diana Wynne Jones, Children?s Author, Dies at 76 2011-03-29T00:52:53Z

She goes back as far as 1856 to show that photography, even in its infancy, always had a little hocus-pocus to it. 'The Digital Eye': photographic art in the electronic age 2011-08-10T20:11:06Z

Please don't judge them too harshly for their categorization hocus-pocus. Straight to DVD: "Tenderness" and "Peacock" 2010-04-17T17:17:00Z

But all her talk of magic, kismet and other unseen forces is itself a kind of hocus-pocus. Review | Rickie Lee Jones offers a raw and roving account of her life in ‘Last Chance Texaco’ 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

The new movie, a skillful blend of nostalgic sentiment and hair-raising effects, with the visual punch of big-screen digital hocus-pocus and the liberties of the R rating, still has the soothing charm of familiarity. Review: ‘It’ Brings Back Stephen King’s Killer Clown 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

When Becky isn’t dealing with the repercussions of using hocus-pocus to fix her life, she’s conversing with her dead daughter or stepping into Rebecca’s memories. Review: ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Brings the Witches but Forgets the Magic 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Victor Frankenstein, his head full of alchemical hocus-pocus, goes off to the University of Ingolstadt. Ten of the best: lectures 2011-03-12T00:06:46Z

All supposed supernatural footage is shaky and slightly dubious, so that culture of on-the-spot, subjective personal journalism, mixed with all of this ancient hocus-pocus, felt like a really fun dynamic. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Are Back With a British ‘X-Files’ 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

On the basis of the pilot – a so-so police procedural with some CGI hocus-pocus – we'll have to concede that comics have been pulling this off more successfully for years. TV highlights 13/02/2012 2012-02-12T20:00:17Z

Zabladowski’s hocus-pocus tango with Dr. T, one of many splendidly strange musical numbers, anticipates the spell-casting duels of the comic book Dr. Strange. In ‘The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,’ Practice Makes Pandemonium 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

We are in a world of artifice and illusion, confected from old-fashioned production-design virtuosity and newfangled digital hocus-pocus. Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Interpreted by Baz Luhrmann 2013-05-09T12:00:01Z

Endeavoring to access Langley’s notebooks, she cozies up to his niece, a down-at-the-heels dealer in antiquarian books who isn’t above employing a little Lee Israel-style hocus-pocus to produce fake inventory for a credulous clientele. A Quartet of First Novels Takes Readers From Trinidad to the Himalayas 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

The grapes were grown on the east coast of Seneca Lake and turned into wine with a minimum of hocus-pocus by Kris Matthewson. Restaurant Review: Rebelle in NoLIta 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

The idea was to dismantle the hocus-pocus of concert dance, and in her early work, Tharp came on stern like her Judson elders. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Even up close, it was impossible to tell whether it was all sleight of hand or real hocus-pocus. Leaf-peeping and spooky vibes make Estes Park, Colo., a dynamic fall destination 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a long way from the stale, hocus-pocus image of birthday party magicians from the past. Broadway conjures magic with ‘The Illusionists’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

I’m a skeptic — philosophically agnostic and politically atheist, if that makes sense – and constitutionally offended by anti-science hocus-pocus. A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Technical knowledge allows you to dare and try new things,” he said, which at Alameda means light, modern cuisine without any hocus-pocus. Next Stop: A Dining Explosion in a Tiny Basque Town 2010-07-31T04:20:00Z

The supernatural hocus-pocus amounts to very little, but at least you get to see two great stars, however mismatched, being themselves in an all-too-symbolic setting. Big Issues (and, Yes, Amour) Hit Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

The modern mechanisms of display expose themselves as industrial-strength hocus-pocus. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

The happy resolution is earned by more than hocus-pocus. Review: Words aren’t the only magic in this interactive production of Shakespeare's 'Tempest' 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Salesforce deployed 14 tax subsidiaries scattered from Singapore to Switzerland, moving its money and assets around in a masterful display of accounting hocus-pocus that made its taxable income vanish. C.E.O.s Were Our Heroes, at Least According to Them 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

And though I felt a bit deflated by his rationalist preamble — like Blanche in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” I wanted hocus-pocus, not realism — I was bewitched by the processing power of his mind. 'The Enigmatist' creates a magical sense of togetherness at the Geffen Playhouse 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

It might sound a bit hocus-pocus but, she is adamant: “It does work.” How to build a secondhand capsule wardrobe 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, Hobby Lobby was a victory for hocus-pocus nonsense, and a major loss for scientific fact. What civil liberties? Kentucky's medieval abortion law amounts to state-sanctioned rape 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

They appeal also, perhaps, for the same reason astrology, numerology and other hocus-pocus systems do: because it’s fun to divide people into categories. Are you a good fit for the job? Personality tests on the rise at work | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

But the boys from Tinseltown sprinkled some hocus-pocus to sow a wilderness mirage, and no one seems concerned about the weird food options. Rooftop bars are all the rage in Seattle — we rated the 4 hottest ones for your summer enjoyment 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

“These are ‘meaning’ drugs, and the whole concept of meaning eludes people and they think it’s hocus-pocus. Psychedelic renaissance: could MDMA help with PTSD, depression and anxiety? 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

She engages in some hocus-pocus about thanking the clothes, but the exercise centers on getting rid of things that no longer serve. Foreigners shape up Americans 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

You would think a chemistry set rather than a shaker would be required to duplicate cocktail bar Canon’s concoctions, what with all the hocus-pocus and smoky shenanigans at this most molecular of mixology temples. Try the Italian Buck for a crowd-pleasing cocktail with an impeccable pedigree 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Without much more, the whole idea is merely recycled hocus-pocus. Opinion | Without more details, this is just antitrust hocus-pocus 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

By a similar logic, while there is a tiny bit of hocus-pocus, most of the supernatural power in Game of Thrones is prosthetic, rather than symbolic. Drama queens: why it’s all about women and power on screen right now 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

The new cocktail den in West Seattle is trying to channel the famed Aviary in Chicago with its hocus-pocus, molecular mixology stuff. 7 new Seattle happy hours: $7 craft cocktails, dollar deviled eggs and more 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

A kind of “if you have to ask you don’t know” hocus-pocus. Richard Ford: ‘Who needs friends?’ 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

And that Copperfieldian bit of geographic hocus-pocus is at the heart of the entire enterprise. MGM casino outside Washington may change Washington’s ways 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

The hocus-pocus of these buybacks purportedly raises the value of a company stock by making excess shares disappear and increasing earnings per share. Exposing Buyback ‘Magic’ 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

Americans who needlessly spend money on hocus-pocus like non-validated food supplements, vitamins, "natural" remedies, homeopathic nonsense, chiropractors and the like are in no position to complain about vaccine prices. Low Prices for Vaccines Can Come at a Great Cost 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

That excellent paté, inlaid with dried cherry conserve and served with petite brioche toasts, doesn’t need the hocus-pocus. Ethan Stowell does Staple & Fancy lite at new Marine Hardware 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

"But the philosophy with this movie was: We're not doing hocus-pocus magic. Everything is doable." How a magician orchestrated the Lizzy Caplan decapitation scene in ‘Now You See Me 2’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Might be hocus-pocus, but as with any revolution, early skepticism often gives way to spiritual enlightenment and appreciation. This robotic training machine fits his golf game to a T 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

To divert attention from this, the N.C.A.A. publishes its annual hocus-pocus numbers. Football Inequality, and a Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl? 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

It almost sounds like hocus-pocus when you sit here telling someone about it but when you get in and try it for yourself it’s like, ‘wow, this works.’ Company brings full-body cryotherapy sessions to Knoxville 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the rapid descent of modern conservatism into a netherworld of conspiracy theories and hocus-pocus gimmickry is nearly complete. Wing-nut conspiracy theorists have done it again: The truth about the Planned Parenthood hoax revealed 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

The philosophy with this movie was: We're not doing hocus-pocus magic. How a magician orchestrated the Lizzy Caplan decapitation scene in ‘Now You See Me 2’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Further aid should only be granted if Greece takes real measures instead of “another hocus-pocus”. Poorer than Greece: the EU countries that reject a new Athens bailout 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Big-college defending champion Ohio State boasts an N.C.A.A.-calculated hocus-pocus Graduation Success Rate of 81 percent for football players. Football Inequality, and a Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl? 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Greg Sargent: Will GOP pay any political price for budgetary hocus-pocus? To avoid a government shutdown in the fall, Congress needs to act now 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Hobson said magic’s profile - long saddled with a stale, hocus-pocus image - has risen in the past few years thanks to the Internet and TV shows like “America’s Got Talent.” ‘The Illusionists’ to reappear like magic on Broadway again 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Hobson said magic's profile — long saddled with a stale, hocus-pocus image — has risen in the past few years thanks to the Internet and TV shows like "America's Got Talent." 'The Illusionists' to reappear like magic on Broadway again 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

If such hocus-pocus seems beyond your skill set, let me refer you back to Scene 1, Paragraph 1. How to watch the Dodgers on TV 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

He respected magic too much to use it for rhetorical hocus-pocus. Were The Surrealists Magicians Or Charlatans? See For Yourself At This New York Surrealism Exhibit 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

It might sound like hocus-pocus, but Mithoefer explained it this way: Can psychedelic trips cure PTSD and other maladies?

“These are tried and true techniques, it’s not hocus-pocus,” he said. In class, Ohio students face roller coaster fears 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

As our chief large-canvas illusionist, Nolan’s kaleidoscope puzzles have often dazzled more than they have moved, prizing brilliant, hocus-pocus architecture over emotional interiors. Review: ‘Interstellar’ a sublime cosmic knockout 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

“There is a lot of hocus-pocus in the marketplace and a lot of exaggeration,” he told me. Can Video Games Fend Off Mental Decline? 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

In reality, of course, there was no hocus-pocus, just perfect technique, and a little bit of that sublime sauce, which seems to amplify the flavors of everything it touches. From Alain Passard, the beauty of a simple salad with a great sauce 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

No hocus-pocus is involved here: You chop off the top of a pigeon egg, inject the passenger-pigeon cells inside and cover the hole with a material that looks like Saran wrap. The Mammoth Cometh 2014-02-27T10:00:19Z

"Some conservatives are calling this the hocus-pocus bill and it's meeting resistance," one House Republican aide said. Republicans weigh defunding 'Obamacare' in U.S. spending measure 2013-09-09T22:40:46Z

You know, there would be some resolutions that were being proffered in the United Nations and usual hocus-pocus, but the world and the country would have moved on. Obama Admits Syria Opposition 2013-09-06T17:35:29Z

According to to this new review, as well as our colleagues who study the brains of people who are prone to trancelike states, hypnosis is not necessarily hocus-pocus. The Neural Magic of Hypnotic Suggestion 2013-07-30T14:15:06.177Z

There is no hocus-pocus, no advantage to the dieters. Q. and A. - Are High-Protein, Low-Carb Diets Effective? 2012-07-09T16:41:24Z

There was something behind the hocus-pocus; something that moved one's curiosity and tempted one to rash experiment. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z

Then there is that queer blue oil beetle, with his queerer history; that slender-waisted wasp that digs its deep hole in the dirt, and those round holes in the path, with their mysterious hocus-pocus. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z

There’s also no hocus-pocus in reporting cash flow, no “special items” or off-balance-sheet transactions. Facebook's Biggest Surprise -- No Funny Numbers 2012-02-15T20:03:35Z

With but little hocus-pocus father and daughter were conjured on the scene, as absolutely the "very thing," to all appearance, as the cunning Hojo had conceived them. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z

It struck him now as a childish farce—an absurd hocus-pocus. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z

Only the witch-doctors could visit him, and their visits were official and hedged about with much flummery and hocus-pocus. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z

“What sort of pocus-hocus—no, hocus-pocus is this, anyway?” he spluttered. Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best 2011-12-30T03:00:28.567Z

It is second-rate work, not scientific activity, and reminiscent of magic, conjuring and hocus-pocus; yet in the face of the interest of the patient this cannot be considered. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z

It would be a purely formal process—like renaming a "hocus-pocus" and calling it two "Abracadabras." Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z

The instinct of inferiority demanding, as always, an outlet in the invention of gods, had found a tireless medium for this hocus-pocus in the press. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z

Among the hocus-pocus and humbuggery of the witch-doctor's trade we found several genuine "cures" which they used to alleviate suffering among their people. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z

The accounting hocus-pocus may in the end be counterproductive for the banks. High & Low Finance: European Banks Apply Slippery Standards on Greek Bond Valuations 2011-09-08T18:15:11Z

He began to wonder whether there were not some hocus-pocus about the charcoal-burning, and whether it were not due to the forest woman, who aided him so willingly. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z

But if we don't carry out this hocus-pocus first, she will not credit what comes after. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z

The minister seemed no longer a symbol of some childish hocus-pocus but an ambassador of God—a stern man, closely in touch with the Mysteries. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z

In this great game of hocus-pocus many deceptions are resorted to. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z

And now let this cool, serious, hocus-pocus of a Preface–an expression which Tillotson maintains to be an abridgment of the Catholic formula, hoc est corpus–suffice for good reviewers and universities. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z

A fantastic hocus-pocus, a witches' sabbath of abbreviated symbols, written in a childish round hand which was the obvious result of Miss Spoelmann's peculiar way of holding her pen, covered the pages. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z

He had acquired a certain amount of clerical hocus-pocus by having been a novice in a monastery, whence he was kicked out for sacrilege. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z

Ryan's proposal is magical thinking at its worst, a hocus-pocus of numbers adrift from reality. America and the Great Disappointment 2011-04-13T00:30:00Z

First real acquaintance my poor brute’s met up with since I rode him out of the home corral and into a baggage car which I couldn’t hocus-pocus him into thinking was the latest in stables. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z

As human bodies they are the same, but their functions separate them and make them totally different, so that the difference cannot by any hocus-pocus of metaphysics or magic be bridged or spanned.” Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z

A little hocus-pocus, a little official solemnity, is the thing to assume, I suppose. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z

Professor Duff, of Glasgow University, has come out with a public statement that the maxims and proverbs of our forefathers are largely hocus-pocus and buncombe. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z

And these are genuine mountains, by-the-way, wearing eternal caps of snow, and equally eternal deceit as to their distances, their heights, and as to all else concerning which a rarefied atmosphere can hocus-pocus a stranger. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z

But it's plain to be seen there's no hocus-pocus about this thing. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z

The worship of shibboleths cannot be kept up beyond a point where the majority grow tired of hocus-pocus politics and academical agnosticism. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z

Celeste, all your jungle hocus-pocus doesn’t impress me in the least. Whispering Walls 2011-01-17T03:00:48.373Z

By some mere hocus-pocus of chance, or subtly designing knavery, a real Italian gem of art had found its way into this most hybrid collection of impostures. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z

“Now this must be where the hocus-pocus begins!” Signal in the Dark 2011-01-06T03:00:43.537Z

I did so, and he began to perform all sorts of hocus-pocus over me. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z

Salt’s going there on business and he’ll have no time for any hocus-pocus. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z

There are some coaches that see it as some sort of hocus-pocus. From the ?Avatar? Playbook, Pro Teams Adopt 3-D Imaging 2010-10-02T19:37:00Z

Ordinarily, deficits are resolved mostly through budgetary hocus-pocus. The Other Financial Crisis 2010-06-17T09:05:00Z

I have tried to show him that what he proposes is simply a delusion of goldite hocus-pocus. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897

"Prisoner having bolted and altogether went, sir—same being vanished, though suspecting witches and hocus-pocus, must hold myself responsible for same——" "No, no, Zeb." Our Admirable Betty A Romance

"What hocus-pocus has been here?" said he to himself, as he gazed upon the deserted stable. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency

There is no sleight-of-hand or hocus-pocus in the benefits it seeks to confer. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day

Some of it may have been hocus-pocus, but most of it certainly was not. Triplanetary

But, as has been shown in this case, "be there a will, and wisdom finds a way," or if not wisdom, the hocus-pocus of diplomacy. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10)

Invisible, he could assist Mystiffio with the hocus-pocus and really produce some wonderful effects. The Chameleon Man

By what spiritual hocus-pocus this is managed is not known to those outside the trade. The Witches of New York

There were two ways of escaping this dilemma: one was to withdraw the warriors; the other, by some hocus-pocus, to abrogate the neutrality. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25)

It is too much the habit of Gods to pretend to die when they don't really die at all—when, in fact, the whole idea is a mere intellectual hocus-pocus. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King'

If I didna feel just sure of the 288 lassie, and that she was awful pleased and chief with Alan, I would think there was some kind of hocus-pocus about yon.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25)

Did any hocus-pocus contriving, with which he had become only too familiar, lie beneath this innocent application? Clark's Field

One more cabalistic performance and the hocus-pocus was ended. The Witches of New York

"And you wouldn't try to muddy the water again if I confessed that our Marine Law was a hocus-pocus?" Wings of the Wind

Why has Mr. Wells partly goaded and partly hypnotized himself into the belief that he is the predestined prolocutor of a new hocus-pocus? God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King'

There is no hocus-pocus in morality; and even the “sanctimonious ceremony” of marriage leaves the man unchanged. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25)

But love was beginning its usual hocus-pocus with character and turning a tired business man into a restless swain. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards

Why seek to limit the duration of hell by some hocus-pocus of interpretation? Flowers of Freethought (First Series)

Larry fumed in disgust at the cheap hocus-pocus of it—but the next moment a more violent emotion swept over him as he saw Diane seized and borne swiftly to that loathsome shrine. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931

"What hocus-pocus is this?" he was asking himself. Two Thousand Miles Below

No, I won't let you rob me of my death moments by any kind of hocus-pocus. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays

With hocus-pocus like that no dog is lured from the stove in the real world. Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) A Tragedy in Four Acts

There is no hocus-pocus about it, nor are any statements made here which experience cannot verify. The Practice of Autosuggestion

Why, I went to see one Mr. Morrison, the hocus-pocus man; they said as how he could eat a case knife. The Contrast

By some hocus-pocus Toby had learned to read his Bible. True To His Colors

And moreover, if we believed that it would be unconditionally hastened by our getting the franchise, we should be what I call superstitious men, believing in magic, or the production of a result by hocus-pocus. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete

It's only a new variety of the hocus-pocus that's been imposing on human weakness ever since the world began. The Invader A Novel

And when after a time we get into mere hocus-pocus, and it seems to Consuelo that Albert's violin "speaks and utters words as through the mouth of Satan," the same persons may think it fine. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

He was a very civil, kind man, though he did speak like the Hessians; he lifted up his eyes and said, "They play hocus-pocus tricks enough there, Got knows, mine friend." The Contrast

He has no knowledge of such bugbears as steep gradients or dangerous curves; a little hocus-pocus with the compasses transforms all these into gentle undulations, and sweeps of the most graceful description. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845

I could have found it in me to laugh at the whole miserable hocus-pocus, had I been less indignant. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908

This chapter is to be a faithful description of mystery, hocus-pocus, vou-doo, and Indian superstition, concrete and abstract. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography

"If you've been up to any hocus-pocus business, Mr. Thurman," he said to himself, as he descended to dinner, "you are going to get the surprise of your life within a very short time." The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code

Hegel's own logic, with all the senseless hocus-pocus of its triads, utterly fails to prove his position. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

What hocus-pocus I must seem to be talking, as if there were some cheap tragedy in my life. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance

They regard it fixedly as hocus-pocus, childish if not wicked. Tongues of Conscience

But she's not saying hocus-pocus and stirring caldrons on his account, you may be certain. The Opened Shutters

"There's some hocus-pocus about this," whispered Trask, as he and Locke moved forward for a private talk. Isle o' Dreams

I disposed of the snake, put out the gas; and down we three sat, amid profound darkness, like three male witches in "Macbeth," having previously locked the door to prevent any one disturbing our hocus-pocus. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis

Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven. The Goose Man

What do I care about the whole pantomimic hocus-pocus of the actor? The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

“I confess that I don’t feel any animosity against them; I would much rather be fighting the French; but they, by a sort of hocus-pocus, are our allies,” remarked Green. The Three Commanders

But in the night, by dint of some hocus-pocus, he got the chain unsnapped and made off, and he is now, I trust, a patriarch of his tribe, wearing a leather necktie. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers

By the hocus-pocus and the magical touch of my little finger; heigh ho! start up, Jack, and sing! Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk

“It is not only hocus-pocus,” replied Eberhard, who was now completely transformed, though he did not grasp the painful indignation of the musician. The Goose Man

Why, when I was holding a slate in order that they might write upon it, I minded the scratching no more than a clock a-ticking, they had made me that careless of their hocus-pocus. The Tyranny of the Dark

Harris, will you turn down the lights before—" "There!" said Miller, "the hocus-pocus begins. The Shadow World

A sort of hocus-pocus ... now you are my wife, now you aren't my wife. Erik Dorn

His great craze for years has been spiritualism, theosophy, and mahatmas, with all their attendant hocus-pocus. A Master of Mysteries

His voice was shaky, and if there had been light enough to see it, his face was gray with terror of his own hocus-pocus. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray

It is of a piece with the old crone's tales, fortune-telling, palmistry, and all the rest of the hodge-podge or hocus-pocus which makes up the world of the unlearned. The Tyranny of the Dark

And now another wait of five minutes, followed by the same hocus-pocus, and the black spots, one by one, vanishing from sight even as I looked upon them. My Studio Neighbors

The job seems so absurdly trivial, even to so mean an understanding, that he can’t refrain from glorifying it with a bit of hocus-pocus. A Book of Burlesques

Every chapter is full of practical points, of easily applicable advice; it is entirely free from any fads and mysterious methods of treatment, any hints at hocus-pocus. Woman Her Sex and Love Life

He diddled you with that hocus-pocus, did he? The Confidence-Man

As to all this hocus-pocus about the ha'nt, that is easily explained. The Four Pools Mystery

If anything, she's deadly logical; when her mind puzzles us it's never by hocus-pocus, but simply by swiftness in operation.… Brother Copas

The two women by a magical hocus-pocus, were changed for a time, without any of the four knowing it. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

And then having brought the King to terms, by cunning hocus-pocus she summoned Samuel from the cold, cold grave. Fair to Look Upon

Thus in these ceremonies for the production or cessation of rain we see that religion, represented by the invocation of the ghosts, goes hand in hand with magic, represented by the hocus-pocus with the stone. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

But suppose the whole matter were really a hocus-pocus. The Napoleon of Notting Hill

By some hocus-pocus, Miss Rose has made his acquaintance during those three weeks, and helped the slow time to pass. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel

I have a hocus-pocus here "—he touched his breast—"written by a wise man in Ravenna, and sealed with a dead Goth's hand, that is proof against devil or dam! The Long Night

"I fail to see any necessity for all this secrecy and hocus-pocus," District Attorney Sanderson protested irritably. Murder at Bridge

Brieux's elaborate proofs that two and two are four have been hailed as epoch-making; one of his worst plays, indeed, has been presented with all the solemn hocus-pocus of a religious rite. A Book of Prefaces

There was no hocus-pocus or flummery; the whole proceeding was as simple as playing dominoes. Caves of Terror

He shall get no chance for any hocus-pocus business, not while I have charge of your interests. The Chief Legatee

“Oh, there's some queer, hocus-pocus business on foot,” muttered Hal, bitterly. The Submarine Boys and the Middies

"Oh, there's some queer, hocus-pocus business on foot," muttered Hal, bitterly. The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4

Quite literally, and without hocus-pocus of any sort, the money valuation of the mud in the world must outnumber many thousand times the money valuation of all the other minerals put together. Science in Arcady

Inevitably also such a theory of worship often degenerated into an utter formalism which made hyprocrisy and unreality patent, until the hoc est corpus of the mass became the hocus-pocus of the scoffer. Preaching and Paganism

This shifting of persons could not be done without the hocus-pocus of abstraction. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)

Evidently, to denounce visions of gray bulls as hocus-pocus would be to describe a puzzling situation much too subjectively, since the Government has apparently no evidence that these are not genuine prophecy. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915

What you may term the hocus-pocus side of the case," he replied, "turns on matters Egyptian, doesn't it? The Green Eyes of Bâst

I was anxious to see for myself, naturally, suspecting some hocus-pocus, so I ventured to be respectfully dubious. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories

“We’re that now, save for the hocus-pocus of the parsons you set such store by.” Children of the Mist

If these mummeries and this hocus-pocus were collected into a volume, and set out with elegant extracts from the Bible, there would be a nineteenth century Atharva Veda. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

She must, as Doctor, play her hocus-pocus To make the dose work better, that's the plan. Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe

Then the Judge and Cale go through some kind of a hocus-pocus talk, winding up with both of them saying 'Not guilty!' in a loud voice; and Myron says to Pete: 'There! Somewhere in Red Gap

"And if it isn't hocus-pocus, what is it?" The Gloved Hand

Let them not imagine that any hocus-pocus of electricity or viscous fluids would make a living cell.... Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation

There are indications, however, that the priests themselves understood that much in the ceremonial was pure hocus-pocus, and not of such importance as it was reputed to be. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow

How dare you undertake To carry on here your old hocus-pocus? Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe

There can be little doubt that he was justified in this; indeed, he was probably even more justified if the experiments were genuine psychical mysteries than if they were the hocus-pocus of a charlatan. Robert Browning

Here's my theory: that hocus-pocus on the roof at midnight was for the purpose of impressing Vaughan. The Gloved Hand

Commonplace gains nothing by being translated into rhyme, for it is something which no hocus-pocus can transubstantiate with the real presence of living thought. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

Was all this mesmerism so much hocus-pocus and nonsense to deceive me, a credulous fool? Weapons of Mystery

He says the inventor-scientists have brought us the mystery of electricity, which is no hocus-pocus, but a special manifestation of the Immanent God within us and about us. The Art of the Moving Picture

"But he's wise enough to know there may be a lot of hocus-pocus in the business." The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands

The whole hocus-pocus of ‘spirit-writing’ on slates and in pellets of paper, has been satisfactorily exposed and explained, as a rather simple kind of leger-de-main. Cock Lane and Common-Sense

He escaped by some hocus-pocus law, and emigrated to the West, where the violence of his nature has been admirably enhanced. The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War

There, in the quiet of my room, all this mesmerism and clairvoyance seemed only so much hocus-pocus, which no sensible and well-educated man should have anything to do with. Weapons of Mystery

By a legislative hocus-pocus, known as the Compromise Measures of 1850, Congress, contrary to the uniform tendency of bodies entrusted with a discretion, vacated instead of enlarging its powers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858

I queried: for I did not understand all this hocus-pocus of locating any given spot in the Iowa prairies in 1855. Vandemark's Folly

We don't need a hocus-pocus of false sentiment. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5

To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.

I assure you,' and he laughed again, 'I feel quite a traitor in the camp of those dear, gifted, good, noble fellows, my brother artists, by not doing the hocus-pocus better. Little Dorrit

By the great hocus-pocus," he said, "you know, I believe you. Her Father's Daughter

There were two ways of escaping this dilemma: one was to withdraw the warriors; the other, by some hocus-pocus, to abrogate the neutrality. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa

Dufour made a series of hocus-pocus passes over the dog's body; then the head suddenly appeared in its proper place, and the dog, with a joyous yelp, ran to his master. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé

And another thing, I won't have her thumped about all over the chest, or any hocus-pocus of the sort. Round the Red Lamp

There is no hocus-pocus in morality; and even the "sanctimonious ceremony" of marriage leaves the man unchanged. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

Even in citizenship, by some strange hocus-pocus, that fact of birth and geography was waved aside, and the woman automatically acquired the nationality of her husband. Herland

"In respect to this hocus-pocus of yours, sir, with the laudanum and Mr. Franklin Blake," he began. The Moonstone

Dufour gave his best performances in the evening, as he could then show his hocus-pocus to best advantage. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé

If she's never had any business training at all, if business doesn't mean anything to her except some vague hocus-pocus that produces her income, then she's seven kinds of a Tartar. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors

The hostess was too adroit at that hocus-pocus of the table which often is practiced in cheap boarding-houses. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography

Did he not describe it as "a political hocus-pocus"? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 5, 1917

Third, that Penelope had heard them rehearsing their hocus-pocus, like actors rehearsing a play. The Moonstone

But now-a-days after all manner of dishonorable shifts there comes a grand crash; many suffer, but by some hocus-pocus the merchant saves enough to retire upon and live comfortably here or abroad. Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories

A certain hocus-pocus concerning character reading, a perverted revival of the ancient phrenology and physiognomy, has invaded the employment territory in America as the newest charlatanism. The Glands Regulating Personality

By some hocus-pocus known to accomplished politicians, this city has had no Mayor since the 4th of June, 1867. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 34, November 19, 1870

What good does he suppose all this hocus-pocus is going to do us?" muttered Harry irritably, "as if an old fire could tell us anything we didn't know already. The Boy Aviators in Africa

I have learned this much, that the old teachings of Calhoun have borne their legitimate fruit, and that the Cotton States by some hocus-pocus legislation declare themselves out of the Union. His Sombre Rivals

What I say is that I detest all this spiritual hocus-pocus to which you have always had a leaning. Stella Fregelius

These Jews actually believed in miracles; they had no science, and thought they could regenerate the world by hocus-pocus. Catharine Furze

There's none of the Corsican Brothers sort of hocus-pocus about us in any way. What's Bred in the Bone

All this patter about the deserted wife, sitting at home with her children and weeping her eyes out—all that was so much hocus-pocus for the ears of the mob. Love's Pilgrimage

What the bewildered members of the Brigade made of all this hocus-pocus I had no idea. They Call Me Carpenter

Going to the spring near which we were outspanned, I took off my shirt to have a good wash, still chuckling at the memory of all the hocus-pocus of my old friend, the Opener-of-Roads. She and Allan

Strike out the element of time and we have before us a spectacle more novel and startling than any hocus-pocus or legerdemain that ever set the crowd agape. Time and Change

They'd raise a dickens of a hocus-pocus back in Germany if they once suspected their government of playing that game. The Eye of Zeitoon

There was some sort of hocus-pocus going on, connected with this excursion and the gold company. The Voyage of the Hoppergrass

Vendors of every sort of cure-all abound, as well as creatures who work on the superstitions and pretend to cure by charms and hocus-pocus. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life

Be frank and fair and true; according to the very latest science, remember!—not according to the latest hocus-pocus of twelfth-century mandate issued from Rome. The Master-Christian

And again: "When all the praties were black in Ireland, why didn't the priests say the hocus-pocus over them, and make them all good again?" Culture and Anarchy

The city water department, by some hocus-pocus, made it its business to discover that they had been stealing water. The Titan

But the first principle which our author "keeps in mind" possesses just that amount of ambiguity which enables him to play hocus-pocus with it. Evolution and Ethics

Oh, I used a little justifiable hocus-pocus about the medicine. Jewel

Strange kind of hocus-pocus work for a monarch!—Peripatetically odd! Poems

The card is some hocus-pocus,—a blind, as like as not. The Sign of the Four

Even then the city never received its due, for by some hocus-pocus it was declared to have forfeited its rights. The Financier, a novel

Can't you pull the cork out of your magnetism with your teeth and hocus-pocus them handcuffs off?' The Gentle Grafter

"And so you have invented this little game of hocus-pocus because you hold in your fingers fifteen thousand francs that don't belong to you!" The Lesser Bourgeoisie

What sort of hocus-pocus you bring it about by, I don't pretend to know; but you always end in making me take his part, as if I was his father instead of you. No Name

Women, it is almost needless to point out, are much more cautious about embracing the conventional hocus-pocus of the situation. In Defense of Women

No subtlest hocus-pocus of "reason" versus "understanding" will avail for that feat;—and it is terribly perilous to try it in these provinces! Life of John Sterling

But there's a work at work when he says that, And while he says it one feels in the air A deal of circumambient hocus-pocus. The Man Against the Sky

All this, of course, is hocus-pocus, and the judicious are not deceived by it for an instant. In Defense of Women

单词	hocus-pocus
例句	hocus-pocus He steadied himself in time to hear Snape say, “— your little bit of hocus-pocus. I’m waiting.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “I knew it! I knew all you guys were going to crack up someday if you didn’t quit fooling around with this hocus-pocus stuff.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I call it hocus-pocus,” said Grandpa, laughing at her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z "And what makes you so sure that science is so reliable? Or that the university crowd has any better answers than the hocus-pocus gang?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "Right. But this stuff is all, like... mystical. What we were talking about on the phone today? I was talking about reality, real people, not a bunch of hocus-pocus." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all religions it is based on hocus-pocus, misdirection and delusion. The prophets of modern dieting want you to feel guilty about food 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Her books, which draw on Norse and other mythologies, created generally recognizable worlds except for the ubiquity of spells, trances and hocus-pocus. Diana Wynne Jones, Children?s Author, Dies at 76 2011-03-29T00:52:53Z She goes back as far as 1856 to show that photography, even in its infancy, always had a little hocus-pocus to it. 'The Digital Eye': photographic art in the electronic age 2011-08-10T20:11:06Z Please don't judge them too harshly for their categorization hocus-pocus. Straight to DVD: "Tenderness" and "Peacock" 2010-04-17T17:17:00Z But all her talk of magic, kismet and other unseen forces is itself a kind of hocus-pocus. Review \| Rickie Lee Jones offers a raw and roving account of her life in ‘Last Chance Texaco’ 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The new movie, a skillful blend of nostalgic sentiment and hair-raising effects, with the visual punch of big-screen digital hocus-pocus and the liberties of the R rating, still has the soothing charm of familiarity. Review: ‘It’ Brings Back Stephen King’s Killer Clown 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z When Becky isn’t dealing with the repercussions of using hocus-pocus to fix her life, she’s conversing with her dead daughter or stepping into Rebecca’s memories. Review: ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Brings the Witches but Forgets the Magic 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Victor Frankenstein, his head full of alchemical hocus-pocus, goes off to the University of Ingolstadt. Ten of the best: lectures 2011-03-12T00:06:46Z All supposed supernatural footage is shaky and slightly dubious, so that culture of on-the-spot, subjective personal journalism, mixed with all of this ancient hocus-pocus, felt like a really fun dynamic. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Are Back With a British ‘X-Files’ 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z On the basis of the pilot – a so-so police procedural with some CGI hocus-pocus – we'll have to concede that comics have been pulling this off more successfully for years. TV highlights 13/02/2012 2012-02-12T20:00:17Z Zabladowski’s hocus-pocus tango with Dr. T, one of many splendidly strange musical numbers, anticipates the spell-casting duels of the comic book Dr. Strange. In ‘The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,’ Practice Makes Pandemonium 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z We are in a world of artifice and illusion, confected from old-fashioned production-design virtuosity and newfangled digital hocus-pocus. Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Interpreted by Baz Luhrmann 2013-05-09T12:00:01Z Endeavoring to access Langley’s notebooks, she cozies up to his niece, a down-at-the-heels dealer in antiquarian books who isn’t above employing a little Lee Israel-style hocus-pocus to produce fake inventory for a credulous clientele. A Quartet of First Novels Takes Readers From Trinidad to the Himalayas 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The grapes were grown on the east coast of Seneca Lake and turned into wine with a minimum of hocus-pocus by Kris Matthewson. Restaurant Review: Rebelle in NoLIta 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The idea was to dismantle the hocus-pocus of concert dance, and in her early work, Tharp came on stern like her Judson elders. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Even up close, it was impossible to tell whether it was all sleight of hand or real hocus-pocus. Leaf-peeping and spooky vibes make Estes Park, Colo., a dynamic fall destination 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s a long way from the stale, hocus-pocus image of birthday party magicians from the past. Broadway conjures magic with ‘The Illusionists’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z I’m a skeptic — philosophically agnostic and politically atheist, if that makes sense – and constitutionally offended by anti-science hocus-pocus. A skeptic goes to yoga 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z “Technical knowledge allows you to dare and try new things,” he said, which at Alameda means light, modern cuisine without any hocus-pocus. Next Stop: A Dining Explosion in a Tiny Basque Town 2010-07-31T04:20:00Z The supernatural hocus-pocus amounts to very little, but at least you get to see two great stars, however mismatched, being themselves in an all-too-symbolic setting. Big Issues (and, Yes, Amour) Hit Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The modern mechanisms of display expose themselves as industrial-strength hocus-pocus. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The happy resolution is earned by more than hocus-pocus. Review: Words aren’t the only magic in this interactive production of Shakespeare's 'Tempest' 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Salesforce deployed 14 tax subsidiaries scattered from Singapore to Switzerland, moving its money and assets around in a masterful display of accounting hocus-pocus that made its taxable income vanish. C.E.O.s Were Our Heroes, at Least According to Them 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z And though I felt a bit deflated by his rationalist preamble — like Blanche in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” I wanted hocus-pocus, not realism — I was bewitched by the processing power of his mind. 'The Enigmatist' creates a magical sense of togetherness at the Geffen Playhouse 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z It might sound a bit hocus-pocus but, she is adamant: “It does work.” How to build a secondhand capsule wardrobe 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Ultimately, Hobby Lobby was a victory for hocus-pocus nonsense, and a major loss for scientific fact. What civil liberties? Kentucky's medieval abortion law amounts to state-sanctioned rape 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z They appeal also, perhaps, for the same reason astrology, numerology and other hocus-pocus systems do: because it’s fun to divide people into categories. Are you a good fit for the job? Personality tests on the rise at work \| Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z But the boys from Tinseltown sprinkled some hocus-pocus to sow a wilderness mirage, and no one seems concerned about the weird food options. Rooftop bars are all the rage in Seattle — we rated the 4 hottest ones for your summer enjoyment 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “These are ‘meaning’ drugs, and the whole concept of meaning eludes people and they think it’s hocus-pocus. Psychedelic renaissance: could MDMA help with PTSD, depression and anxiety? 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z She engages in some hocus-pocus about thanking the clothes, but the exercise centers on getting rid of things that no longer serve. Foreigners shape up Americans 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z You would think a chemistry set rather than a shaker would be required to duplicate cocktail bar Canon’s concoctions, what with all the hocus-pocus and smoky shenanigans at this most molecular of mixology temples. Try the Italian Buck for a crowd-pleasing cocktail with an impeccable pedigree 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Without much more, the whole idea is merely recycled hocus-pocus. Opinion \| Without more details, this is just antitrust hocus-pocus 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z By a similar logic, while there is a tiny bit of hocus-pocus, most of the supernatural power in Game of Thrones is prosthetic, rather than symbolic. Drama queens: why it’s all about women and power on screen right now 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z The new cocktail den in West Seattle is trying to channel the famed Aviary in Chicago with its hocus-pocus, molecular mixology stuff. 7 new Seattle happy hours: $7 craft cocktails, dollar deviled eggs and more 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z A kind of “if you have to ask you don’t know” hocus-pocus. Richard Ford: ‘Who needs friends?’ 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z And that Copperfieldian bit of geographic hocus-pocus is at the heart of the entire enterprise. MGM casino outside Washington may change Washington’s ways 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The hocus-pocus of these buybacks purportedly raises the value of a company stock by making excess shares disappear and increasing earnings per share. Exposing Buyback ‘Magic’ 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Americans who needlessly spend money on hocus-pocus like non-validated food supplements, vitamins, "natural" remedies, homeopathic nonsense, chiropractors and the like are in no position to complain about vaccine prices. Low Prices for Vaccines Can Come at a Great Cost 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z That excellent paté, inlaid with dried cherry conserve and served with petite brioche toasts, doesn’t need the hocus-pocus. Ethan Stowell does Staple & Fancy lite at new Marine Hardware 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z "But the philosophy with this movie was: We're not doing hocus-pocus magic. Everything is doable." How a magician orchestrated the Lizzy Caplan decapitation scene in ‘Now You See Me 2’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Might be hocus-pocus, but as with any revolution, early skepticism often gives way to spiritual enlightenment and appreciation. This robotic training machine fits his golf game to a T 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z To divert attention from this, the N.C.A.A. publishes its annual hocus-pocus numbers. Football Inequality, and a Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl? 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z It almost sounds like hocus-pocus when you sit here telling someone about it but when you get in and try it for yourself it’s like, ‘wow, this works.’ Company brings full-body cryotherapy sessions to Knoxville 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Indeed, the rapid descent of modern conservatism into a netherworld of conspiracy theories and hocus-pocus gimmickry is nearly complete. Wing-nut conspiracy theorists have done it again: The truth about the Planned Parenthood hoax revealed 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The philosophy with this movie was: We're not doing hocus-pocus magic. How a magician orchestrated the Lizzy Caplan decapitation scene in ‘Now You See Me 2’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Further aid should only be granted if Greece takes real measures instead of “another hocus-pocus”. Poorer than Greece: the EU countries that reject a new Athens bailout 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Big-college defending champion Ohio State boasts an N.C.A.A.-calculated hocus-pocus Graduation Success Rate of 81 percent for football players. Football Inequality, and a Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl? 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Greg Sargent: Will GOP pay any political price for budgetary hocus-pocus? To avoid a government shutdown in the fall, Congress needs to act now 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Hobson said magic’s profile - long saddled with a stale, hocus-pocus image - has risen in the past few years thanks to the Internet and TV shows like “America’s Got Talent.” ‘The Illusionists’ to reappear like magic on Broadway again 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Hobson said magic's profile — long saddled with a stale, hocus-pocus image — has risen in the past few years thanks to the Internet and TV shows like "America's Got Talent." 'The Illusionists' to reappear like magic on Broadway again 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z If such hocus-pocus seems beyond your skill set, let me refer you back to Scene 1, Paragraph 1. How to watch the Dodgers on TV 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z He respected magic too much to use it for rhetorical hocus-pocus. Were The Surrealists Magicians Or Charlatans? See For Yourself At This New York Surrealism Exhibit 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z It might sound like hocus-pocus, but Mithoefer explained it this way: Can psychedelic trips cure PTSD and other maladies? “These are tried and true techniques, it’s not hocus-pocus,” he said. In class, Ohio students face roller coaster fears 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z As our chief large-canvas illusionist, Nolan’s kaleidoscope puzzles have often dazzled more than they have moved, prizing brilliant, hocus-pocus architecture over emotional interiors. Review: ‘Interstellar’ a sublime cosmic knockout 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “There is a lot of hocus-pocus in the marketplace and a lot of exaggeration,” he told me. Can Video Games Fend Off Mental Decline? 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In reality, of course, there was no hocus-pocus, just perfect technique, and a little bit of that sublime sauce, which seems to amplify the flavors of everything it touches. From Alain Passard, the beauty of a simple salad with a great sauce 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z No hocus-pocus is involved here: You chop off the top of a pigeon egg, inject the passenger-pigeon cells inside and cover the hole with a material that looks like Saran wrap. The Mammoth Cometh 2014-02-27T10:00:19Z "Some conservatives are calling this the hocus-pocus bill and it's meeting resistance," one House Republican aide said. Republicans weigh defunding 'Obamacare' in U.S. spending measure 2013-09-09T22:40:46Z You know, there would be some resolutions that were being proffered in the United Nations and usual hocus-pocus, but the world and the country would have moved on. Obama Admits Syria Opposition 2013-09-06T17:35:29Z According to to this new review, as well as our colleagues who study the brains of people who are prone to trancelike states, hypnosis is not necessarily hocus-pocus. The Neural Magic of Hypnotic Suggestion 2013-07-30T14:15:06.177Z There is no hocus-pocus, no advantage to the dieters. Q. and A. - Are High-Protein, Low-Carb Diets Effective? 2012-07-09T16:41:24Z There was something behind the hocus-pocus; something that moved one's curiosity and tempted one to rash experiment. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Then there is that queer blue oil beetle, with his queerer history; that slender-waisted wasp that digs its deep hole in the dirt, and those round holes in the path, with their mysterious hocus-pocus. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z There’s also no hocus-pocus in reporting cash flow, no “special items” or off-balance-sheet transactions. Facebook's Biggest Surprise -- No Funny Numbers 2012-02-15T20:03:35Z With but little hocus-pocus father and daughter were conjured on the scene, as absolutely the "very thing," to all appearance, as the cunning Hojo had conceived them. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z It struck him now as a childish farce—an absurd hocus-pocus. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Only the witch-doctors could visit him, and their visits were official and hedged about with much flummery and hocus-pocus. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z “What sort of pocus-hocus—no, hocus-pocus is this, anyway?” he spluttered. Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best 2011-12-30T03:00:28.567Z It is second-rate work, not scientific activity, and reminiscent of magic, conjuring and hocus-pocus; yet in the face of the interest of the patient this cannot be considered. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z It would be a purely formal process—like renaming a "hocus-pocus" and calling it two "Abracadabras." Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z The instinct of inferiority demanding, as always, an outlet in the invention of gods, had found a tireless medium for this hocus-pocus in the press. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Among the hocus-pocus and humbuggery of the witch-doctor's trade we found several genuine "cures" which they used to alleviate suffering among their people. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z The accounting hocus-pocus may in the end be counterproductive for the banks. High & Low Finance: European Banks Apply Slippery Standards on Greek Bond Valuations 2011-09-08T18:15:11Z He began to wonder whether there were not some hocus-pocus about the charcoal-burning, and whether it were not due to the forest woman, who aided him so willingly. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z But if we don't carry out this hocus-pocus first, she will not credit what comes after. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z The minister seemed no longer a symbol of some childish hocus-pocus but an ambassador of God—a stern man, closely in touch with the Mysteries. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z In this great game of hocus-pocus many deceptions are resorted to. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z And now let this cool, serious, hocus-pocus of a Preface–an expression which Tillotson maintains to be an abridgment of the Catholic formula, hoc est corpus–suffice for good reviewers and universities. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z A fantastic hocus-pocus, a witches' sabbath of abbreviated symbols, written in a childish round hand which was the obvious result of Miss Spoelmann's peculiar way of holding her pen, covered the pages. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z He had acquired a certain amount of clerical hocus-pocus by having been a novice in a monastery, whence he was kicked out for sacrilege. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z Ryan's proposal is magical thinking at its worst, a hocus-pocus of numbers adrift from reality. America and the Great Disappointment 2011-04-13T00:30:00Z First real acquaintance my poor brute’s met up with since I rode him out of the home corral and into a baggage car which I couldn’t hocus-pocus him into thinking was the latest in stables. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z As human bodies they are the same, but their functions separate them and make them totally different, so that the difference cannot by any hocus-pocus of metaphysics or magic be bridged or spanned.” Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z A little hocus-pocus, a little official solemnity, is the thing to assume, I suppose. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z Professor Duff, of Glasgow University, has come out with a public statement that the maxims and proverbs of our forefathers are largely hocus-pocus and buncombe. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z And these are genuine mountains, by-the-way, wearing eternal caps of snow, and equally eternal deceit as to their distances, their heights, and as to all else concerning which a rarefied atmosphere can hocus-pocus a stranger. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z But it's plain to be seen there's no hocus-pocus about this thing. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z The worship of shibboleths cannot be kept up beyond a point where the majority grow tired of hocus-pocus politics and academical agnosticism. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z Celeste, all your jungle hocus-pocus doesn’t impress me in the least. Whispering Walls 2011-01-17T03:00:48.373Z By some mere hocus-pocus of chance, or subtly designing knavery, a real Italian gem of art had found its way into this most hybrid collection of impostures. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z “Now this must be where the hocus-pocus begins!” Signal in the Dark 2011-01-06T03:00:43.537Z I did so, and he began to perform all sorts of hocus-pocus over me. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z Salt’s going there on business and he’ll have no time for any hocus-pocus. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z There are some coaches that see it as some sort of hocus-pocus. From the ?Avatar? Playbook, Pro Teams Adopt 3-D Imaging 2010-10-02T19:37:00Z Ordinarily, deficits are resolved mostly through budgetary hocus-pocus. The Other Financial Crisis 2010-06-17T09:05:00Z I have tried to show him that what he proposes is simply a delusion of goldite hocus-pocus. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 "Prisoner having bolted and altogether went, sir—same being vanished, though suspecting witches and hocus-pocus, must hold myself responsible for same——" "No, no, Zeb." Our Admirable Betty A Romance "What hocus-pocus has been here?" said he to himself, as he gazed upon the deserted stable. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency There is no sleight-of-hand or hocus-pocus in the benefits it seeks to confer. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day Some of it may have been hocus-pocus, but most of it certainly was not. Triplanetary But, as has been shown in this case, "be there a will, and wisdom finds a way," or if not wisdom, the hocus-pocus of diplomacy. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Invisible, he could assist Mystiffio with the hocus-pocus and really produce some wonderful effects. The Chameleon Man By what spiritual hocus-pocus this is managed is not known to those outside the trade. The Witches of New York There were two ways of escaping this dilemma: one was to withdraw the warriors; the other, by some hocus-pocus, to abrogate the neutrality. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) It is too much the habit of Gods to pretend to die when they don't really die at all—when, in fact, the whole idea is a mere intellectual hocus-pocus. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' If I didna feel just sure of the 288 lassie, and that she was awful pleased and chief with Alan, I would think there was some kind of hocus-pocus about yon.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) Did any hocus-pocus contriving, with which he had become only too familiar, lie beneath this innocent application? Clark's Field One more cabalistic performance and the hocus-pocus was ended. The Witches of New York "And you wouldn't try to muddy the water again if I confessed that our Marine Law was a hocus-pocus?" Wings of the Wind Why has Mr. Wells partly goaded and partly hypnotized himself into the belief that he is the predestined prolocutor of a new hocus-pocus? God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' There is no hocus-pocus in morality; and even the “sanctimonious ceremony” of marriage leaves the man unchanged. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) But love was beginning its usual hocus-pocus with character and turning a tired business man into a restless swain. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Why seek to limit the duration of hell by some hocus-pocus of interpretation? Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Larry fumed in disgust at the cheap hocus-pocus of it—but the next moment a more violent emotion swept over him as he saw Diane seized and borne swiftly to that loathsome shrine. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 "What hocus-pocus is this?" he was asking himself. Two Thousand Miles Below No, I won't let you rob me of my death moments by any kind of hocus-pocus. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays With hocus-pocus like that no dog is lured from the stove in the real world. Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) A Tragedy in Four Acts There is no hocus-pocus about it, nor are any statements made here which experience cannot verify. The Practice of Autosuggestion Why, I went to see one Mr. Morrison, the hocus-pocus man; they said as how he could eat a case knife. The Contrast By some hocus-pocus Toby had learned to read his Bible. True To His Colors And moreover, if we believed that it would be unconditionally hastened by our getting the franchise, we should be what I call superstitious men, believing in magic, or the production of a result by hocus-pocus. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete It's only a new variety of the hocus-pocus that's been imposing on human weakness ever since the world began. The Invader A Novel And when after a time we get into mere hocus-pocus, and it seems to Consuelo that Albert's violin "speaks and utters words as through the mouth of Satan," the same persons may think it fine. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century He was a very civil, kind man, though he did speak like the Hessians; he lifted up his eyes and said, "They play hocus-pocus tricks enough there, Got knows, mine friend." The Contrast He has no knowledge of such bugbears as steep gradients or dangerous curves; a little hocus-pocus with the compasses transforms all these into gentle undulations, and sweeps of the most graceful description. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 I could have found it in me to laugh at the whole miserable hocus-pocus, had I been less indignant. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 This chapter is to be a faithful description of mystery, hocus-pocus, vou-doo, and Indian superstition, concrete and abstract. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography "If you've been up to any hocus-pocus business, Mr. Thurman," he said to himself, as he descended to dinner, "you are going to get the surprise of your life within a very short time." The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code Hegel's own logic, with all the senseless hocus-pocus of its triads, utterly fails to prove his position. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy What hocus-pocus I must seem to be talking, as if there were some cheap tragedy in my life. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance They regard it fixedly as hocus-pocus, childish if not wicked. Tongues of Conscience But she's not saying hocus-pocus and stirring caldrons on his account, you may be certain. The Opened Shutters "There's some hocus-pocus about this," whispered Trask, as he and Locke moved forward for a private talk. Isle o' Dreams I disposed of the snake, put out the gas; and down we three sat, amid profound darkness, like three male witches in "Macbeth," having previously locked the door to prevent any one disturbing our hocus-pocus. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven. The Goose Man What do I care about the whole pantomimic hocus-pocus of the actor? The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. “I confess that I don’t feel any animosity against them; I would much rather be fighting the French; but they, by a sort of hocus-pocus, are our allies,” remarked Green. The Three Commanders But in the night, by dint of some hocus-pocus, he got the chain unsnapped and made off, and he is now, I trust, a patriarch of his tribe, wearing a leather necktie. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers By the hocus-pocus and the magical touch of my little finger; heigh ho! start up, Jack, and sing! Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk “It is not only hocus-pocus,” replied Eberhard, who was now completely transformed, though he did not grasp the painful indignation of the musician. The Goose Man Why, when I was holding a slate in order that they might write upon it, I minded the scratching no more than a clock a-ticking, they had made me that careless of their hocus-pocus. The Tyranny of the Dark Harris, will you turn down the lights before—" "There!" said Miller, "the hocus-pocus begins. The Shadow World A sort of hocus-pocus ... now you are my wife, now you aren't my wife. Erik Dorn His great craze for years has been spiritualism, theosophy, and mahatmas, with all their attendant hocus-pocus. A Master of Mysteries His voice was shaky, and if there had been light enough to see it, his face was gray with terror of his own hocus-pocus. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray It is of a piece with the old crone's tales, fortune-telling, palmistry, and all the rest of the hodge-podge or hocus-pocus which makes up the world of the unlearned. The Tyranny of the Dark And now another wait of five minutes, followed by the same hocus-pocus, and the black spots, one by one, vanishing from sight even as I looked upon them. My Studio Neighbors The job seems so absurdly trivial, even to so mean an understanding, that he can’t refrain from glorifying it with a bit of hocus-pocus. A Book of Burlesques Every chapter is full of practical points, of easily applicable advice; it is entirely free from any fads and mysterious methods of treatment, any hints at hocus-pocus. Woman Her Sex and Love Life He diddled you with that hocus-pocus, did he? The Confidence-Man As to all this hocus-pocus about the ha'nt, that is easily explained. The Four Pools Mystery If anything, she's deadly logical; when her mind puzzles us it's never by hocus-pocus, but simply by swiftness in operation.… Brother Copas The two women by a magical hocus-pocus, were changed for a time, without any of the four knowing it. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 And then having brought the King to terms, by cunning hocus-pocus she summoned Samuel from the cold, cold grave. Fair to Look Upon Thus in these ceremonies for the production or cessation of rain we see that religion, represented by the invocation of the ghosts, goes hand in hand with magic, represented by the hocus-pocus with the stone. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia But suppose the whole matter were really a hocus-pocus. The Napoleon of Notting Hill By some hocus-pocus, Miss Rose has made his acquaintance during those three weeks, and helped the slow time to pass. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel I have a hocus-pocus here "—he touched his breast—"written by a wise man in Ravenna, and sealed with a dead Goth's hand, that is proof against devil or dam! The Long Night "I fail to see any necessity for all this secrecy and hocus-pocus," District Attorney Sanderson protested irritably. Murder at Bridge Brieux's elaborate proofs that two and two are four have been hailed as epoch-making; one of his worst plays, indeed, has been presented with all the solemn hocus-pocus of a religious rite. A Book of Prefaces There was no hocus-pocus or flummery; the whole proceeding was as simple as playing dominoes. Caves of Terror He shall get no chance for any hocus-pocus business, not while I have charge of your interests. The Chief Legatee “Oh, there's some queer, hocus-pocus business on foot,” muttered Hal, bitterly. The Submarine Boys and the Middies "Oh, there's some queer, hocus-pocus business on foot," muttered Hal, bitterly. The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Quite literally, and without hocus-pocus of any sort, the money valuation of the mud in the world must outnumber many thousand times the money valuation of all the other minerals put together. Science in Arcady Inevitably also such a theory of worship often degenerated into an utter formalism which made hyprocrisy and unreality patent, until the hoc est corpus of the mass became the hocus-pocus of the scoffer. Preaching and Paganism This shifting of persons could not be done without the hocus-pocus of abstraction. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Evidently, to denounce visions of gray bulls as hocus-pocus would be to describe a puzzling situation much too subjectively, since the Government has apparently no evidence that these are not genuine prophecy. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 What you may term the hocus-pocus side of the case," he replied, "turns on matters Egyptian, doesn't it? The Green Eyes of Bâst I was anxious to see for myself, naturally, suspecting some hocus-pocus, so I ventured to be respectfully dubious. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories “We’re that now, save for the hocus-pocus of the parsons you set such store by.” Children of the Mist If these mummeries and this hocus-pocus were collected into a volume, and set out with elegant extracts from the Bible, there would be a nineteenth century Atharva Veda. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow She must, as Doctor, play her hocus-pocus To make the dose work better, that's the plan. Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe Then the Judge and Cale go through some kind of a hocus-pocus talk, winding up with both of them saying 'Not guilty!' in a loud voice; and Myron says to Pete: 'There! Somewhere in Red Gap "And if it isn't hocus-pocus, what is it?" The Gloved Hand Let them not imagine that any hocus-pocus of electricity or viscous fluids would make a living cell.... Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation There are indications, however, that the priests themselves understood that much in the ceremonial was pure hocus-pocus, and not of such importance as it was reputed to be. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow How dare you undertake To carry on here your old hocus-pocus? Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe There can be little doubt that he was justified in this; indeed, he was probably even more justified if the experiments were genuine psychical mysteries than if they were the hocus-pocus of a charlatan. Robert Browning Here's my theory: that hocus-pocus on the roof at midnight was for the purpose of impressing Vaughan. The Gloved Hand Commonplace gains nothing by being translated into rhyme, for it is something which no hocus-pocus can transubstantiate with the real presence of living thought. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell Was all this mesmerism so much hocus-pocus and nonsense to deceive me, a credulous fool? Weapons of Mystery He says the inventor-scientists have brought us the mystery of electricity, which is no hocus-pocus, but a special manifestation of the Immanent God within us and about us. The Art of the Moving Picture "But he's wise enough to know there may be a lot of hocus-pocus in the business." The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands The whole hocus-pocus of ‘spirit-writing’ on slates and in pellets of paper, has been satisfactorily exposed and explained, as a rather simple kind of leger-de-main. Cock Lane and Common-Sense He escaped by some hocus-pocus law, and emigrated to the West, where the violence of his nature has been admirably enhanced. The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War There, in the quiet of my room, all this mesmerism and clairvoyance seemed only so much hocus-pocus, which no sensible and well-educated man should have anything to do with. Weapons of Mystery By a legislative hocus-pocus, known as the Compromise Measures of 1850, Congress, contrary to the uniform tendency of bodies entrusted with a discretion, vacated instead of enlarging its powers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 I queried: for I did not understand all this hocus-pocus of locating any given spot in the Iowa prairies in 1855. Vandemark's Folly And moreover, if we believed that it would be unconditionally hastened by our getting the franchise, we should be what I call superstitious men, believing in magic, or the production of a result by hocus-pocus. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy We don't need a hocus-pocus of false sentiment. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. I assure you,' and he laughed again, 'I feel quite a traitor in the camp of those dear, gifted, good, noble fellows, my brother artists, by not doing the hocus-pocus better. Little Dorrit By the great hocus-pocus," he said, "you know, I believe you. Her Father's Daughter There were two ways of escaping this dilemma: one was to withdraw the warriors; the other, by some hocus-pocus, to abrogate the neutrality. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Dufour made a series of hocus-pocus passes over the dog's body; then the head suddenly appeared in its proper place, and the dog, with a joyous yelp, ran to his master. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé And another thing, I won't have her thumped about all over the chest, or any hocus-pocus of the sort. Round the Red Lamp There is no hocus-pocus in morality; and even the "sanctimonious ceremony" of marriage leaves the man unchanged. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Even in citizenship, by some strange hocus-pocus, that fact of birth and geography was waved aside, and the woman automatically acquired the nationality of her husband. Herland "In respect to this hocus-pocus of yours, sir, with the laudanum and Mr. Franklin Blake," he began. The Moonstone Dufour gave his best performances in the evening, as he could then show his hocus-pocus to best advantage. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé If she's never had any business training at all, if business doesn't mean anything to her except some vague hocus-pocus that produces her income, then she's seven kinds of a Tartar. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors The hostess was too adroit at that hocus-pocus of the table which often is practiced in cheap boarding-houses. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Did he not describe it as "a political hocus-pocus"? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 5, 1917 Third, that Penelope had heard them rehearsing their hocus-pocus, like actors rehearsing a play. The Moonstone But now-a-days after all manner of dishonorable shifts there comes a grand crash; many suffer, but by some hocus-pocus the merchant saves enough to retire upon and live comfortably here or abroad. Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories A certain hocus-pocus concerning character reading, a perverted revival of the ancient phrenology and physiognomy, has invaded the employment territory in America as the newest charlatanism. The Glands Regulating Personality By some hocus-pocus known to accomplished politicians, this city has had no Mayor since the 4th of June, 1867. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 34, November 19, 1870 What good does he suppose all this hocus-pocus is going to do us?" muttered Harry irritably, "as if an old fire could tell us anything we didn't know already. The Boy Aviators in Africa I have learned this much, that the old teachings of Calhoun have borne their legitimate fruit, and that the Cotton States by some hocus-pocus legislation declare themselves out of the Union. His Sombre Rivals What I say is that I detest all this spiritual hocus-pocus to which you have always had a leaning. Stella Fregelius These Jews actually believed in miracles; they had no science, and thought they could regenerate the world by hocus-pocus. Catharine Furze There's none of the Corsican Brothers sort of hocus-pocus about us in any way. What's Bred in the Bone All this patter about the deserted wife, sitting at home with her children and weeping her eyes out—all that was so much hocus-pocus for the ears of the mob. Love's Pilgrimage What the bewildered members of the Brigade made of all this hocus-pocus I had no idea. They Call Me Carpenter Going to the spring near which we were outspanned, I took off my shirt to have a good wash, still chuckling at the memory of all the hocus-pocus of my old friend, the Opener-of-Roads. She and Allan Strike out the element of time and we have before us a spectacle more novel and startling than any hocus-pocus or legerdemain that ever set the crowd agape. Time and Change They'd raise a dickens of a hocus-pocus back in Germany if they once suspected their government of playing that game. The Eye of Zeitoon There was some sort of hocus-pocus going on, connected with this excursion and the gold company. The Voyage of the Hoppergrass Vendors of every sort of cure-all abound, as well as creatures who work on the superstitions and pretend to cure by charms and hocus-pocus. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life Be frank and fair and true; according to the very latest science, remember!—not according to the latest hocus-pocus of twelfth-century mandate issued from Rome. The Master-Christian And again: "When all the praties were black in Ireland, why didn't the priests say the hocus-pocus over them, and make them all good again?" Culture and Anarchy The city water department, by some hocus-pocus, made it its business to discover that they had been stealing water. The Titan But the first principle which our author "keeps in mind" possesses just that amount of ambiguity which enables him to play hocus-pocus with it. Evolution and Ethics Oh, I used a little justifiable hocus-pocus about the medicine. Jewel Strange kind of hocus-pocus work for a monarch!—Peripatetically odd! Poems The card is some hocus-pocus,—a blind, as like as not. The Sign of the Four Even then the city never received its due, for by some hocus-pocus it was declared to have forfeited its rights. The Financier, a novel Can't you pull the cork out of your magnetism with your teeth and hocus-pocus them handcuffs off?' The Gentle Grafter "And so you have invented this little game of hocus-pocus because you hold in your fingers fifteen thousand francs that don't belong to you!" The Lesser Bourgeoisie What sort of hocus-pocus you bring it about by, I don't pretend to know; but you always end in making me take his part, as if I was his father instead of you. No Name Women, it is almost needless to point out, are much more cautious about embracing the conventional hocus-pocus of the situation. In Defense of Women No subtlest hocus-pocus of "reason" versus "understanding" will avail for that feat;—and it is terribly perilous to try it in these provinces! Life of John Sterling But there's a work at work when he says that, And while he says it one feels in the air A deal of circumambient hocus-pocus. The Man Against the Sky All this, of course, is hocus-pocus, and the judicious are not deceived by it for an instant. In Defense of Women
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