| 单词 | legerdemain |
| 例句 | His door stood open to the morning, and he hummed under his breath while his right hand practiced legerdemain. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He amazed everyone with his feats of legerdemain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z What impressed most was the diversity of approaches that the composers involved took to stretching a more or less conventional chamber ensemble’s sound through electronic legerdemain. Music Review: A Night of Acoustic and Electronic Exploits 2011-01-29T00:05:24Z The laugh is a close cousin of the astonished moan that follows a successful bit of legerdemain. Jokes and Shame, from Chris Rock to Donald Trump 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z As if that bit of sexual legerdemain was not enough, she surrounded the image with Arabic script, which carries associations with the Quran. Art in Review: Arahmaiani: ‘Fertility of the Mind’ 2014-01-30T21:42:44Z Scorsese, sampling his eternal passion, encompasses a century and more of film legerdemain. Hugo: Scorsese's Magnificent Dream Machine 2011-11-22T20:39:54Z Mr. Stone, “stifling the urge to stand up and start preaching from the legerdemain section,” instead decides to flash her an “innocent altar boy look.” Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z Jackson’s storytelling at this point is so driven by green-screen trickery and digital legerdemain that he seems to have forgotten about human emotion. ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ review: Lots of fighting, not much hobbit 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z But anyone who thinks staging this year’s parade has been a layup, not a singular feat of logistical legerdemain, has been dipping too deeply into the holiday punch. A Thanksgiving Parade, Unfazed by Snow or Wind, Takes On a Pandemic 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z “Then books; then roast with sauerkraut. All else changes, legerdemains.” A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Circus rolling through Kansas in 1905, Oscar aspires to merge the scientific acumen of Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, with the renowned legerdemain of Harry Houdini. Oz the Great and Powerful: Mostly, It’s Wicked Bad 2013-03-06T16:10:03Z And so a bit of lyrical legerdemain was called for. ‘Not Just for Gays’: The Year the Tonys Dared to Go There 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z This canny bit of neural legerdemain, where one major brain region takes over for another, is called cross-modal plasticity. Deaf rapper Sean Forbes makes himself joyfully heard on the hip-hop scene 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z That focus leaves Picasso in slight shadow, gives Braque his fair due and crowns a new champion of media monkey business and painterly legerdemain. Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z After the Army, he tested his legerdemain on the professional circuit before switching to stand-up comedy, which opened the doors to "The Ed Sullivan Show" and Broadway. 'Safe at Home: An Evening With Orson Bean' is a local treasure waiting for you to discover it 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Ocean’s 8 skips through this part of the heist as though it were some sort of admirably fleet-fingered legerdemain, so let me run it by you again. You make me sick! Why film’s fondness for food poisoning takes the biscuit 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z But thank heavens for the red curtain hung clothesline-style facilitating the legerdemain and the use of caps and helmets allowing major characters to serve as supernumeraries. Globe's compact 'King Lear,' at the Broad, lacks needed heft 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z It is, however, an unusual instance of old-school legerdemain in an era when mixologists have made an effort to be more scrupulous about cocktail history. That Historic Cocktail? Turns Out It’s a Fake 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z In the early stages of that show's elephantine birth agonies, director Julie Taymor was trying to duplicate the surreal grandeur and technical legerdemain of a Cirque Vegas event. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z A brief cheer for that other late-summer fixture, the Kings Place festival which, by some legerdemain worthy of the Magic Circle, manages to present 100 performances in four days. In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The theatrical legerdemain deployed at the Polo Bar by Mr. Lauren’s design team was necessary to distract diners from what is clearly its most glaring deficit. Dinner at Ralph’s 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The murder itself is a pretty crafty piece of legerdemain. Books of The Times: ?Think of a Number,? Crime Story From John Verdon 2010-07-15T21:32:00Z All the supposed legerdemain takes me away from the writer’s actual project. David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z He presented an idea of wealth that was brazen and crass and thus to his admirers rang open and honest, whatever legerdemain went into the actual business. What ‘The Apprentice’ Taught Donald Trump About Campaigning 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The hay — not to mention the marauding birds, “The Wizard of Oz” and the narrative legerdemain — could easily have made “You Will Get Sick” too self-consciously poetic, its spray of images dissipating too quickly. Review: ‘You Will Get Sick’ Tells the Untellable, for a Price 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Through this directorial legerdemain the drama achieves the force and fluidity of a Gospel service. 'Color Purple' musical on Broadway has a divine, moving spirit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z And movies, a sustained feat of legerdemain, can actually suffer from an excess of clarity. The devil is in Blu-ray's detail 2010-08-31T08:15:00Z But, while I came away dazzled by Lepage's legerdemain, I wished that, intellectually, he had played a stronger hand. Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-12T17:31:11Z “By what manner of well-meaning legerdemain,” the linguist Jonathan Lighter, a slang expert, later asked, “does a three-word Most Notable Hashtag become Word of the Year?” At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Helen Lin, the soloist, dexterously grappled with contrasting meters and hand-over-hand legerdemain, chorused by strings and two percussionists. Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-03-09T22:31:00Z Thursday 3 January Borges's short stories were what showed me the way: how, with exquisite legerdemain, to fuse the literary, the philosophic and the anecdotal. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z The first was an introduction to conjuring for the elementary-school set and their credulous parents, the second a tribute to the legerdemain of times past. There’s Magic in the Air, if You Believe 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Sol Stone, too, was there, at a table in the back covered not with plates and pizza crusts but with cards, coins, rings and other tools of legerdemain. Sleight of Hand in Midtown, Beyond Three-Card Monte 2011-06-23T21:04:32Z Poirot reacts to all this legerdemain with a disbelieving scowl, even when he can’t fully explain the hair-raising tricks his eyes and ears are playing on him. Review: With ‘A Haunting in Venice,’ Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie series hits its stride 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Wade always struck me as a pretty sketchy act of constitutional legerdemain. A year after Dobbs, leaving abortion to states isn’t working | Francis Wilkinson 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Floating playing cards and inducing the disappearance of several billiard balls, Ms. Dea “completely mystified the audience with her legerdemain,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal said in a review. Gloria Dea, Las Vegas magician who vanished into obscurity, dies at 100 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z That does not mean the game wasn’t bereft of Brady’s fourth-quarter legerdemain. Tom Brady never played for an L.A. team, but left his mark on Southern California 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Bridging the gap on overall spending between what Manchin wants and what Sanders wants is mostly a matter of the kind of mathematical legerdemain that both men could do in their sleep. Opinion | Take the Democrats-are-doomed narrative with a grain of salt 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z I’m still not a puzzle person, but this showcase of brain-twisters and legerdemain makes for an enjoyable theatrical outing. 'The Enigmatist' creates a magical sense of togetherness at the Geffen Playhouse 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z American policymakers have rewarded this naked legerdemain with rounds of tax cuts, most recently in 2017, partly justified as necessary to induce companies not to cheat. Opinion | Make Tax-Dodging Companies Pay for Biden’s Infrastructure Plan 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z The Geffen helped to write the book on interactive streaming theater, beginning with its hit magic show “The Present,” which featured master of legerdemain Helder Guimarães. 'Bollywood Kitchen' is theater that lets you to cook, and dance, along 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z But Helder Guimarães, as charming a raconteur as he is a magician, brought his astonishing legerdemain into the virtual realm. Best in theater: In a year to forget, virtuoso performances to remember 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Understanding my choices, or my fictional alter ego’s, would require a clarifying self-awareness and a literary legerdemain that were beyond me at the time. Perspective | How literature can mirror our complicated desires 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Dubbed “The Liberaces of legerdemain” by People magazine, they served as fodder for late-night comedians and were spoofed by “The Simpsons.” Roy Horn, dark-haired half of flamboyant illusionists Siegfried & Roy, has died 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The Obama administration justified that cost with some mathematical legerdemain of its own. E.P.A. Weakens Controls on Mercury 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z That move, engineered by Republicans who then controlled the state legislature, crystallized the state’s long-standing tradition of shortchanging vital infrastructure with stopgaps and financial legerdemain. Opinion | Why Ralph Northam’s proposal to raise the gas tax is a good idea 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z An example of Mr. Northam’s political legerdemain is his tax proposal, which avoided the minefields of income or sales tax increases. Opinion | Northam’s Virginia budget is both astute and generous 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Others used the moniker as a compliment, owing to his legerdemain. Felix Rohatyn, Wall Street wizard who helped save NYC from bankruptcy, dies at 91 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z “Art today is more pluralistic than it used to be,” DeLap said in a 1999 interview with The Times about his penchant for geometric legerdemain. Tony DeLap, pioneering West Coast figure in abstract art, dies at 91 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Whether you view such projects as a flourish of digital legerdemain, or as a dead weight and an insult to Uncle Walt, is of no consequence. The Winning Excess of “The Beach Bum” 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Last Thursday, after some dubious legislative legerdemain, the Kansas House approved a bill expanding Medicaid coverage in the state. Recent Kansas Editorials 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The cost of ignoring these issues won’t magically disappear through statistical legerdemain. Opinion | We need to act now to help older adults who are struggling financially 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The tone grows bitter, dismissing Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion on the Second Amendment as “a prolonged exercise in legalistic legerdemain, or perhaps a tortured display of verbal ingenuity by an overly assiduous Scrabble player.” Review | Arguing with the founders about where we’ve gone wrong 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Brady has said the party would use the same parliamentary legerdemain that ensured passage of the first tax cut to make sure the next one can escape a Democratic filibuster in the Senate. To the Center or the Right? What 2 More Years of a Republican-Led House Might Look Like 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z I was baffled for a moment, and then found myself marveling at his legerdemain. The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z I didn’t spend hours palming cards and rolling coins across my knuckles, practicing the skills necessary to master legerdemain. Perspective | In 1974, a Texas college’s theater troupe spun gold from Nixon’s woes 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Then he gave me a little wink and a smile, produced two shallow glasses like it was legerdemain, and poured first for Priya and then, when she nodded over it, for me. Read an excerpt from Elizabeth Bear’s next steampunk adventure Stone Mad 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z There is an element of diplomatic legerdemain to the exercise, European diplomats acknowledge: How do you convince Mr. Trump that you have changed the deal without actually changing it? Rewrite Iran Deal? Europeans Offer a Different Solution: A New Chapter 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The show, she adds, highlights the legerdemain displayed by the characters juggling formidable stressors before things got crazy. Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman on what it means to play 'Good Girls' 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Maybe you’re unfamiliar with this particular bit of legal, yet slightly sketchy, legerdemain. Opinion | Trump’s reverse merger with the GOP is complete 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The joys of the game are rooted in its structure: seeing how one seemingly disparate scene links up with others and dissolves into the next is like witnessing a masterful display of legerdemain. Review | ‘Gorogoa:’ A rare combination of accessible but strange and intuitive but mind-bending 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z I remember when Sugar Pops suddenly became Corn Pops, a bit of marketing legerdemain that struck me as positively Orwellian. Perspective | Et tu, Cheerios? The breakfast cereal now comes in chocolate peanut butter flavor. 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z But winning his eighth Wimbledon title, and his first since 2012, will require plenty more legerdemain and staying power. Roger Federer, Wimbledon’s Constant, Is Turning Back Time 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z “And translating some broad idea into legislation requires a certain amount of attention and legerdemain this man simply does not possess, and at 70, he’s not going to develop it.” Trump’s window for scoring early legislative victories is shrinking 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z One example of the budget-ledger legerdemain: Mr. Trump has pledged to end estate taxation. Trump’s Problematic Math: Budget Plan Adds Growth, but Doesn’t Subtract Cost 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z It fits neatly with the “Star Wars” mythos, especially during its rousing third act, some clever digital legerdemain and an immensely satisfying final moment. ‘Rogue One’ doesn’t offer much joy, but Star Wars fans will enjoy it anyway 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z That goes double regarding the Iranian nuclear deal, which Mr. Pompeo opposed in part because of the diplomatic legerdemain he and Sen. Cotton uncovered in Vienna. Mike Pompeo’s Iran File 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The FBI director lost the confidence of millions of Americans last summer by using semantic sophistry and bureaucratic legerdemain to exonerate Hillary Clinton from charges of mishandling classified information. Resign, Mr. Comey 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z But he is still the prince of legerdemain – a word from old French which translates as, “light of hand”. Gaël Monfils hoping to finally stretch relaxed Novak Djokovic at US Open 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z He produced more fast-twitch legerdemain on Friday, but many times, his return games looked more like self-defense as Raonic’s serves ricocheted off the hard edges of his racket. A Different Look for the Men’s Final 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Antidumping cases are dubious even without this statistical legerdemain, and U.S. unions and companies will lobby the next President to renege on the WTO accord. Obama Front-Runs Trump on China 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Brodsky and his staff uncovered political gamesmanship and legerdemain, some of which pushed against the bounds of the legal. Grumbling About Socialism, the Yankees Profit From It 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z He hasn't battled the waves of lobbyists, activists and media pundits who will attempt to block, thwart and derail his initiatives using legislative legerdemain, heavy-handed regulatory rulings, grass-roots campaigns and manipulation of public opinion. Good Grief in the Age of the Donald 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z This was a time, however, when the Trotters were known not merely for their comedy routines and basketball legerdemain; they were also a formidable competitive team. Meadowlark Lemon, Harlem Globetrotter Who Played Basketball and Pranks With Virtuosity, Dies at 83 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Dramatic crises—for which evidence tends to be anecdotal, subjective, invisible, tendentious and sometimes fabricated—are trumpeted on the basis of incompetently designed studies, poorly understood statistics, or semantic legerdemain. Liberalism’s Imaginary Enemies 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z He started out investing with money borrowed from a friend in 1995, tracking companies with suspect financial disclosures he recognized as boiler-room legerdemain or led by management teams involved in previous stock scams. The ‘Short’ Who Sank Valeant Stock 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Holding a precarious 3-2 series lead over the President’s Trophy winners, they should use all the D.C. legerdemain of this spring to their advantage. Paul Pierce, Bryce Harper cap another surreal day in D.C.’s extraordinary spring 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z But the film also argues that, on a personal level, Randi’s legerdemain — his playing fast and loose with a fact or two — has only ever been in the service of love, not larceny. Truth and unexpected consequences: ‘An Honest Liar’ profiles James Randi 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Even some Republicans didn’t care for the budgetary legerdemain. GOP Tries to Have Its Pentagon Cake and Eat It, Too 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The Meyer operation depends on a combination of digital legerdemain and old-fashioned craftsmanship. The Photoshop of Sound 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z No amount of diplomatic legerdemain, it seems to me, can avoid answering this question with a simple yes or no. Boehner’s invitation to Netanyahu backfires on them both 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Hall started playing with Goose Tatum, who helped him become a master of “reams,” or ball-handling legerdemain. Bob Hall, Harlem Globetrotter Who Relished the Role of Showman, Dies at 87 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Here is a terror organization perfectly suited to the Zeitgeist, skilled in the art of delusion and technological legerdemain. Islamic State Group, Boko Haram Terrorize in an Age of Fantasy 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Jacob Rees-Mogg, an MP known for his baroque turns of phrase, accused his party of “procedural prestidigitation” and “legislative legerdemain”. Keep calm and carry on 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The writer captures backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg's complaint of "legislative legerdemain… tyranny… an outrageous abuse of parliamentary procedure", before adding: "And this was just the Tories!" Commons chaos and Jagger illness - papers 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But no matter how many times he assured his audiences that such stunts were a result of subterfuge and legerdemain, he found there were always believers. The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The war lobby minimizes the magnitude of America’s military spending through statistical legerdemain. Republican Party Hawks Demand More Military Spending Than During The Cold War; Washington Should Stop Squandering "Defense" Dollars To Protect Other Nations 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Seemingly unaware that some people might view such legerdemain as a lapse in his world-renowned personal character, Eisenhower later reminisced about the episode as if it were a youthful picaresque caprice. Eisenhower’s Baseball Secret 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “We’re not trying to confuse or engage in legerdemain,” he added. Advertising: A Message That Tries to Blend In 2013-12-13T00:56:19Z But globalization — combined with financial legerdemain — has opened wide new doors for companies to reduce their tax bill. Economic Scene: The Trouble With Taxing Corporations 2013-05-29T00:52:54Z The financial legerdemain is complicated and ultimately incidental, the bigotry is not. The Masters presents a phony, sanitized South 2013-04-11T17:06:00Z If that occurs in people, too, then the same bacteria-changing legerdemain achieved by gastric bypass might be accomplished without putting obese patients under the knife in an expensive and risky operation. After weight-loss surgery, new gut bacteria keep obesity away 2013-03-27T18:01:12Z What a trick — a bit of sleight of hand, electronic legerdemain. Squealer 2012-06-13T17:20:45.833Z But Goffin also got to see Federer’s pursed lips and furrowed brow as he answered the Swiss champion’s spin and artistry with plenty of legerdemain of his own. French Open: 2012 French Open: Azarenka Ousted in 4th Round 2012-06-03T19:54:53Z The stick of the physician’s cane was probably a relic of the legerdemain of the healer, who in superstitious times worked upon the ignorance of the credulous. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Then that crafty and stately piece of legerdemain of Belle's had its reward. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z That Merriwell had secured the pair of fives with his three jacks for all of his style of drawing seemed like legerdemain. Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends 2012-04-14T02:00:22.840Z Even if it should be proved that Spiritualism consists only of tricks of legerdemain, the belief in the existence of souls separate from the body would not be affected in the slightest degree. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Numberless other things were promised, in the shape of Firemen's addresses, songs, legerdemain, acrobatic exercises, ventriloquism, &c., the whole to conclude with an original Extravaganza, in which the whole company would appear. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z Hence a certain unscrupulousness towards Nature in the French garden; hence the daring picturesqueness, its legerdemain. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z This act of doctrinal legerdemain also does a grave disservice to the rest of us. SchoolBook: For Dr. King, Freedom and Education Were Intertwined 2012-01-13T16:17:24Z But I was a very simple amateur in these matters, and could do little beyond the easy legerdemain of the drawing-room at home. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z One hand washes the other, and the state is the dupe of the pious legerdemain. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z Passing by this ridiculous legerdemain, let us take Dr. Farrar's theory for what it is worth. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z Although the verbal legerdemain which is so conspicuous in his poetry cannot be reproduced in another language, the lines translated below may be taken as a favourable and sufficiently characteristic specimen of his style. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z He may astonish the natives by his "wonderful feats," but with all his legerdemain he cannot deceive me in any of his movements. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Hustling for tips isn’t part of Mr. Beckerman’s operating procedure, although chefs and bartenders do seem more than willing to slip him free cocktails and appetizers in exchange for his pro bono legerdemain. ?The Foodie Magician? and His Tableside Sleights of Hand 2011-09-27T22:30:34Z Of course Monsieur le Comte believes all that; but he does not know so well as I the legerdemain in use among servants, who are accustomed to smuggling. In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3 2011-08-25T02:00:28.717Z While reckonings are expensive, the cost of forestalling them through legerdemain is always far greater. Buffett’s $7 Million Sacrifice Is Only a Start: Jonathan Weil 2011-08-25T00:22:02Z The illogical leap from the acceptance of evolutionary science to the call for world government and world taxation is typical of the intellectual legerdemain practiced by secular humanists. Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes 2011-08-23T11:01:00Z The legerdemain and humbuggery of the whole affair are too transparent to deceive any eye but that of a credulous American. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z This we were enabled to do in open playground by the simple expedient of calling the exercise legerdemain. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z But, hoity toity! what were his dismay and horror, when he detected that by her legerdemain in double-dealing she habitually contrived to assign herself five pictured cards of leading importance! A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z Says Edwin Sachs, the eminent English authority on legerdemain:—"If I wanted to test a conjurer's ability, I should give him this trick to perform." Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z By some strange legerdemain he soon had the stiff old man telling tales of Charleston before the earthquake. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z A much more probable explanation is that the relators were either dreaming or deceived by clever legerdemain. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z The slowdown made most “circumvention” technologies — the software legerdemain that helps dissidents sneak data along the state-controlled networks — nearly useless, he said. U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors 2011-06-12T05:26:14Z A third of the price he thus by a clever enough legerdemain whisked out of the buyer's distant pocket. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z "Thirty minutes with Herrmann," "A bouquet of mystical novelties," etc., sufficed to describe a dozen or more brilliant feats of legerdemain. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z The ordinary reader was surprised at the scientific legerdemain by which Helen was identified with Sarama, and was disposed to accept a great deal from men who claimed to have made such astonishing discoveries. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z These dupes were easily deceived and led astray by simple frauds, which scarcely rose to the level of amateur legerdemain. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z He learned all the tricks and spells of legerdemain, the arts and formulas and incantations of magic, and the rites and ceremonies of the black art in its broadest sense. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Our author included in his volume a complete treatise of legerdemain, or the conjuring art. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Professor Stanyon is one of the most prolific as well as one of the cleverest living writers, on the subject of legerdemain. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z If these eggs are the work of legerdemain, Neale, you can wave your wand again. The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z I’ve always viewed this as legerdemain designed solely to disguise how high the rate is, but Fair Tax supporters are convinced that their unorthodox way of calculating it is the correct way of doing so. Economix: Is the Fair Tax Herman Cain's Ace in the Hole? 2011-05-24T10:00:42Z Their intrigues and tricks of legerdemain are as familiar to us as household words; in vain might the world be ransacked for a more precious junto of flatterers and cajolers. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z In this, as in other cases, the truth is, that Shakespeare wrote with all care, and indulged in neither legerdemain nor clap-trap. Time in the Play of Hamlet 2011-05-02T02:00:16.887Z Ladies and Gentlemen, with your kind attention I shall endeavor to amuse you with a series of experiments in legerdemain. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z To make all the legerdemain possible, David M. Barber has transformed the theater’s thrust stage into an elegant gold-arched proscenium, complete with side boxes and a plush, red curtain trimmed with gold tassels. | Connecticut: A Spy Comedy, Complete With an Airplane Chase 2011-04-17T01:10:26Z Now is this logic, or is it legerdemain? An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z One cannot escape the conviction that the outcome of all his brilliant rhetorical legerdemain is man in a cage. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z They are impossible of explanation on any hypothesis calculated to reduce his work to the vulgar plane of legerdemain. Do the Dead Return? A True Story of Startling Seances in San Francisco 2011-03-11T03:00:13.180Z You would do, by a piece of legerdemain, what you have not the courage to attempt openly. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Leonhardt says the future of optical legerdemain lies not in hiding things, but in revealing them. Invisibility Cloaks Hit the Big Time 2011-02-02T16:52:00Z "Except that you said 'leaderdemain' rather than 'legerdemain,' you did very well," Mrs. Simpson said. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z Jaurès acknowledged the awkwardness of this policy, which required a superhuman legerdemain never yet accomplished by any party in the history of politics. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z Polls show high levels of opposition, with German voters complaining that they have carefully avoided excessive deficits in their own country but now have to help pay for the legerdemain and deficits of others. Europe's unity tested as bailout for Greece clears a key hurdle 2010-05-08T04:00:00Z It often surprises students that modern economics is solidly based on that legerdemain, which I admit to them in a memo entitled: “How We Economists Bastardized Benthamite Utilitarianism and Became Shills for the Wealthy.” How Businesses Create Wealth 2010-05-07T10:00:00Z Reports of economic miracles under the AKP have, as everyone now understands, been exaggerated by statistical legerdemain. A Nation of Conspiracies 2010-03-13T00:35:00Z It was a display of legislative legerdemain that if not pretty — Nelson’s vote cost a promise of millions of dollars to cover Nebraska’s Medicaid expenses — was impressive. 2010-01-22T04:18:00Z If you do, there must be some legerdemain. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams A miniature fountain in the centre of the area is very busy in sustaining at the apex of its tiny stream a hollow glass ball of vivid hue, an innocent act of aquatic legerdemain. The Story of Malta He had prosecuted his studies also under a traveling sage who united the mysteries of medicine with magic and legerdemain. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Or had all the miracles of Jesus been such as the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, it might, with a shade of plausibility, have been urged that this was legerdemain. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II He had laid off his coat, run his two hands up through his hair till it stood up like forked flames, and was thumping the glasses as if in feats of legerdemain. First Fam'lies of the Sierras She explained some of the legerdemain required by the garment, and Frieda told her of a woman, related to Eulalie, who was talented in juggling with old dresses and renovating them. A Top-Floor Idyl If he victimizes you, you look upon him as upon a clever professor of legerdemain, who has cheated you in spite of your senses; but you hardly hold him morally responsible. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. With the delicacy that lent something of legerdemain to all his gestures, he took out a small canvas wallet, the crude equivalent of the professional black bag, from which he drew a thimble. Where the Pavement Ends She has, by an extraordinary feat of legerdemain, extracted them; and he, on his side, to supply her, has had to tap the sacred fount. The Sacred Fount A large place was neatly swept out, and at last strewn with sawdust,—signs unerring of some exhibition of legerdemain or conjuring, of which the Tyrolese are warm admirers. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance What if it were not trick and legerdemain? Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The guards skidded to a halt in open-mouthed astonishment at this feat of legerdemain; and Pryak, quick to take advantage of their baffled state, scrambled atop the dais and cried out to gain their attention. Warrior of the Dawn By some feat of legerdemain he managed to shake hands with the boys without letting go of either. The Golden Skull But this would have been rather beyond even Master Tom’s power of legerdemain. Witch Stories This was not considered an exercise in legerdemain but a way to develop the younger man's control over his power. Washo Religion Priests, however, tolerate no rivals, and permit no legerdemain but their own. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The best way to expose the above piece of statistical legerdemain is to give without further comment the whole of the figures for the past fifteen years. Are we Ruined by the Germans? I wished I had learned legerdemain instead of Hebrew, that I might have paid the fellow out with his own coin. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) "You know all the legerdemain people do that." The Come Back I never did get the sleeve trick; but then, I never succeeded in fooling the merest infant with any of my attempts at legerdemain. Gold You Catholic fellows, with your ceremonial and legerdemain, give a much better entertainment. Carmen Ariza Astonishing feats of preparation were consummated as if by legerdemain. Nobody The great suddenness––the extreme abruptness––of the change, gave to it the effect of a trick of legerdemain. Leading Articles on Various Subjects The facility with which the characters are transported from the ends of the earth to meet at a place called Plum Island surpasses any trick in legerdemain. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Nature, in sportive mood, commands the Angel of Death, who with matchless legerdemain, keeps the mirror of illusion, unsuspected, before the consumptive’s eyes; and, seeing, in derision the satirist smiles. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Passively obeying, I sat down and turned my situation over in my mind, in which kind of agreeable mental legerdemain I was still occupied when he returned. The First Violin A Novel With a deftness which would have done credit to a professor of legerdemain he unbuckled the strap of her little wrist-watch, putting the thing into his pocket. The Dust Flower Everything short of this is trick, legerdemain, sleight of hand. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II They seemed calculated for gamesters; their vivacity, their readiness, and their everlasting professions of friendship, were nicely adapted to inspire confidence in the unsuspecting American Jack-Tar; who has no legerdemain about him. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. On this principle depends the art of conjuration, or legerdemain; the fundamental maxim of those who practise them, is, that the motion is too quick for sight. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease In order to accomplish this piece of legal legerdemain, the court had to alter or reinterpret the law in ways that are disturbing. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Actors perform old-world dramas in dumb show, and conjurors in gaudy attire attract people of all ages to those time-honoured feats of legerdemain which once represented the sorcery of the mystic East. Through the Malay Archipelago There was a hideous trick of legerdemain in the last generation, by which an encoffined skeleton was made to struggle to its feet. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Here would be a contest of strength and hardihood, but not of cunning or legerdemain. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. This was a sort of sleight of hand, in the use of words; and was noticed, at the time, as "legerdemain." Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply He liked to impress his audiences by fantastic eccentricities and by mere tricks of legerdemain, such as dropping and catching his instrument, or breaking one string after another to finish his concert on one alone. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Here the curtain fell, probably because the skill of the professor of legerdemain could go no further. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century That exposé spoiled the legerdemain market on that particular route, for several years. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages As if by some feat in legerdemain Harboro’s weapon was in his hand; but it was a hand that trembled slightly. Children of the Desert Nor can we esteem alterations made in the sufferers, by a look or touch of the accused, to be an infallible evidence of guilt, but frequently liable to be abused by the Devil's legerdemain. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Sir Edward Grey took pains to conceal these facts from the lower house and passed lightly over the disclosures of Faber—when the Imperial Chancellor vigorously opposed him—with skillful legerdemain. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Another brother, Sunstar, acquired considerable reputation by his skill in legerdemain. Marge Askinforit "So far as I know, a perfectly original genius, and that puts any sort of knowledge of legerdemain, such as I supposed that I possessed, at utter defiance." The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete "Twenty and ten and five, makes thirty-five," he said, peeling them off with a nimble exhibition of legerdemain which kept the lower bills well concealed. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World By no sort of legerdemain or surgical skill can we make an individual mammal become two. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy In the realm of cause and effect we are frequently the dupes and victims of a very dexterous system of legerdemain. Mushrooms on the Moor He was delighted with Rannie, the old ventriloquist, and the first in America; and Potter, the late sable and celebrated professor of legerdemain, in slight-of-hand, he thought actually excelled Doctor Mott himself. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman “It’s too much like a mixture of legerdemain and theology.” Jewel Weed To arrange these mirrors so that a lady could see the buttons on the back of her dress was regarded as the final achievement of legerdemain. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Mrs. West's tone indicated that by some mysterious legerdemain the burden had been shifted. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale There is so much craft, so much diplomacy, so much subtle legerdemain, that we all have no end of trouble to inform ourselves on the simplest subject and the one that most concerns us. The Simple Life The impostor was renowned for his wonderful tricks of legerdemain, as well as for cures, necromancy, and fortune-telling. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver He covered them with some newspapers, and at the station succeeded by some legerdemain in slipping them into one of his cases. The Lure of the Mask Winchester lay the fewest of miles away, but somewhere there was legerdemain. The Long Roll He looked keenly after business, played the fiddle, and performed a few tricks of legerdemain. Memoirs By a feat of absolute legerdemain he took out his handkerchief and brushed some crumbs from his beard. Salthaven Presently, the interpreter proposed an exhibition of legerdemain, and in this I found considerable amusement to make up for the preceding buffoonery. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver No wizard of legerdemain ever equalled the sleight of hand with which these men pitched, reckoned, manipulated, and raked in silver pieces! Rivers of Ice “Your highness’s slave,” replied Baba, “refers to those powers of legerdemain, or pretended magic, with which some men are gifted.” The Pirate City An Algerine Tale I admire it as a splendid piece of legerdemain; but it expresses nothing. Gryll Grange If I had not espied, though very late, legerdemain, used in these cases, I had never played my part. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth The Indian jugglers—I am not now speaking of those who pretend to cure disease—are sometimes successful in their legerdemain, to a degree, which almost makes a convert of the sceptic. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 This is a trick of legerdemain in which everything depends on the dexterity of the fingers and a quickness greater than that of the snake itself. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Mr. James Kine came; we smoaked a pipe together and we went and took a survey of the fair; we went to a legerdemain show, which we saw with tolerable approbation. Highways and Byways in Sussex I choked so I had to leave the table and I believe Mrs. Pace, to this day, thinks that by a skillful legerdemain I swallowed the veal! Molly Brown's Orchard Home A professor of legerdemain entertained an audience in a village, which was principally composed of colliers. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Not only do they prophesy, but they perform tricks of legerdemain, all which they ascribe to the success of their incantations. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 The Druids were expert at legerdemain, and, by their astonishing exploits, sustained among an ignorant people a reputation of being magicians. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Sam, after a moment's dazed silence, which must have been gall to him, for he does not like to be imposed upon in such matters, furnished us with the solution of this act of legerdemain. The Opinions of a Philosopher Whitredge's vanishing was like a trick of legerdemain; one moment he stood before us, and at the next he was gone. Branded During the intermission, feats of legerdemain or wrestling fill in the time and give variety to the entertainment. The Little Tea Book But Hugh's mind was too masculine for such legerdemain and though she sighed and sighed again he waited until the vision grew dim astern. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi It consists chiefly in exhibitions of legerdemain, and in conjuring and exorcising demons. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America It is all like a great piece of legerdemain; your eyes cannot follow the processes, but your mind is amazed and then convinced by the triumphant proof of the conjuror's skill. Modern English Books of Power The execution of the best artists is always a splendid tour-de-force; and much that in painting is supposed to be dependent on material is indeed only a lovely and quite inimitable legerdemain. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 They won over the ignorant vulgar by feats of legerdemain which passed for miracles, or excited their curiosity by enigmatical discourse. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements That had been the instinctive legerdemain of mountain quickness, which even drink had not blunted. A Pagan of the Hills There is no time nor power in the instant of death, by any magical legerdemain, to turn away the impending retributions of wickedness and guilt. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life He became an "adept", and discovered how easily the priest drifts into priestcraft, and fraud steps in with legerdemain and miracle to amend the truth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers In the three latest lyrics this stanzaic legerdemain is practised with an enchanting lightness, an ecstasy of sinuous and elastic grace. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters By a feat of legerdemain that a conjurer might have envied, Morris transferred the pin and ring to his waistcoat pocket and followed Abe to the show-room. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Not desiring to appear churlish, by means of a simple feat of legerdemain I drank your health and future happiness in claret! The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor Not fear, but command, was stamped upon her features; she ruled by legerdemain, by lie and trick, and she stood, the supreme she-devil, the master spirit in that raging hell. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France She gazed at them with wide-open eyes, half convinced of some legerdemain. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune It can be done, by means of a certain legerdemain which comes with practice. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital The gymnastic is not a mountebank; he palms off no legerdemain upon the public. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. A little legerdemain is also a great acquisition for a man. Certain Personal Matters The money I took for it seemed therefore to come to me by a sort of legerdemain. The Quest of the Simple Life In both cases, the truth is, that capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by economy: but jugglers only will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks with paper. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 "Jack," said another of them, "let us have a touch of the legerdemain." Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One No less astounding was the uncanny legerdemain displayed in drawing from and replacing the weapon in its place of concealment. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police By what legerdemain was this policy substituted for the Fourteen Points, and how did the President come to accept it? The Economic Consequences of the Peace He had attended, for the first time in his life, an exhibition of legerdemain; this one being given by that celebrated master of the black-art, Professor Heller. Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature "Oh, yes; hypnotism too," said Ely Ives briskly, after twenty minutes of legerdemain. Success A Novel The execution of the best artists is always a splendid tour-de-force, and much that in painting is supposed to be dependent on material is indeed only a lovely and quite inimitable legerdemain. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin Performed with skill, this dialectical legerdemain is very soothing to a not unduly intelligent congregation and prevents any breach in the apparent continuity of the Church's belief. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality PUNCH.—At least you were a promoter of state conjuring and legerdemain tricks on the stage. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 With lightning-like legerdemain the quack had shuffled this bill to the bottom of his pile, and lifting up the one that lay on top, exposed it to the view of his audience. The Redemption of David Corson Likewise, with fitting solemnity, I perpetrated upon them the little I knew of parlor legerdemain. A Daughter of the Snows The obvious instance of this legerdemain is Zola; a less obvious, and therefore more interesting example is Balzac. Aspects of Literature After dinner Harold and Herbert gave an exhibition of tricks of legerdemain, which even the older people found interesting and amusing. Christmas with Grandma Elsie On the second great count—character—Sterne's record is still more distinguished: and here there is no legerdemain about the matter. The English Novel According to this hypothesis, the divining woman of Endor was preparing to practise upon Saul those tricks of legerdemain or jugglery by which she imposed upon meaner clients who resorted to her oracle. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Lord Ronsdale stood sedulously near, turning the leaves; Steele watched the deft hand; it was slim, aristocratic and suggested possibilities in legerdemain. Half A Chance After dinner, actors and tumblers came in, and they had pageants and shows, and marvellous feats of skill and legerdemain. As We Are and As We May Be Happily for Edith those gentlemen were masters of social legerdemain; and they conveyed their smiles up the sleeves of their dress-coats adroitly unperceived. The Divine Fire This has been done by the legerdemain of paper money. Political Pamphlets We know the man; we understand him; we comprehend how he succeeded, for with him there were no tricks, no legerdemain, no secrets. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen To-morrow--to-morrow's old trick of legerdemain! there the knife, here the smiling face, and for the cloud of sycophants mere change of venue. Sir Mortimer The Pompeiian hall has something of the air of a hall dressed for legerdemain, and if you pause to think you will note a strange wizardry at work there. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 It's a time when one of these legerdemain sharps pastes up his bills in our village an' lets on he'll give a show in Liberty Hall on the comin' Saturday evenin'. Wolfville Nights He had prosecuted his studies also under a travelling sage who united all the mysteries of medicine with magic and legerdemain. Tales of a Traveller There is so much craft, so much diplomacy, so much subtle legerdemain that, if he chooses, the Chinese may give you no end of trouble to inform yourself on the simplest subject. Across China on Foot Indeed, you must imitate the skilful professor of legerdemain, and "palm" your views upon the audience as he "palms" a card upon his victim. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Their intense dislike of what is ugly and misshapen is the reason why they so much practise "the legerdemain of changelings," stealing away finished, handsome babies, and leaving blemished and defective ones in their stead. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Then we are told that some of Mr. George's feats 'seem to partake of the nature of legerdemain'. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor Associated word: chevron. sleigh, n. cutter, sled, sledge, bobsled, toboggan, jumper, pung. sleight of hand. prestidigitation, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, conjury. Putnam's Word Book By a species of legerdemain in the communities in which he is most numerous and most needs protection, he is to all intents and purposes disfranchised. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights Or it deals with delicate informal anecdote as the short story does, or fairy legerdemain, or patriotic banners, or great surging mobs of the proletariat, or big scenic outlooks, or miraculous beings made visible. The Art of the Moving Picture You will also hear the voice of some fakir selling his fakes or wares, or some juggler who is delighting his audience with his tricks of legerdemain. By the Golden Gate He did not care much for any sort of diversion, except tricks of High German artists and legerdemain. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Antonyms: illegalize, illegitimize. legate, n. ambassador, envoy, representative. legation, n. embassy. legend, n. fable, myth; posy, inscription, motto. legendary, a. mythical, traditional. legerdemain, n. jugglery, sleight of hand. legible, a. readable, decipherable. Putnam's Word Book Among the painters and musicians especially, even the smallest master carried on his particular legerdemain with the "secrets" of art, which he alone ostensibly possessed and communicated only to his pupils. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes A picture that is all action is a plague, one that is all elephantine and pachydermatous pageant is a bore, and, most emphatically, a film that is all mechanical legerdemain is a nuisance. The Art of the Moving Picture The lecture was succeeded by a display of legerdemain, in which I thought him very superior to Breslaw. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 477, February 19, 1831 If a person has a great knack at finding out feats of legerdemain, you may pronounce him a blockhead. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 583, December 29, 1832 The art of legerdemain, Monsieur, is not immoral. In the Days of My Youth So saying, he disposed of the rest of his food by an act akin to legerdemain, and then fastened a keen eye upon the lady. The Night Horseman Nor can we esteem alterations made in the sufferers, by a look or touch of the accused, to be an infallible evidence of guilt, but frequently liable to be abused by the devil's legerdemains. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) Long experience with Orientals had taught him the profundity of their legerdemain, practically none of which ever has been fathomed by white men. The Flying Legion He could skim more cards across a room into a hat than anyone I have ever seen who was not a professed student of legerdemain. Father Payne "Of the marvellous art of legerdemain, Monsieur Arbuthnot," interrupted the Chevalier eagerly. In the Days of My Youth This bit of legerdemain took about three seconds. Round the Block Her officers and crew are engaged in work which is legerdemain to the civilian. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form The English rook, therefore, is more astute, subtle, and cunning than our American crow, and some of his feats of legerdemain are quite vulpine. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's The moment we try to extend our circle very much, to widen our influence, we become like a juggler who keeps a dozen plates spinning all at once—it is mere legerdemain. Father Payne Those hands were most expert in various amusing and adroit feats of legerdemain, though Mr. Britt's modesty led him to a becoming, if unusual, reticence in this regard. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On There was a legerdemain man got his machinery knocked to pieces, and his head broken. Round the Block The question is thus narrowed to one of pure legerdemain, and the Medium must necessarily have several slates at hand. Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert Following, produced from the same receptacle as by legerdemain, vanishing mysteriously within the mushroom house, followed the blanket bed, the buffalo robes, the folding chairs and table, the frontier "grub" chest. Where the Trail Divides The rule of the majority is so very sacred a thing that it is found necessary to regulate it by legerdemain. The Crater It is assuredly mortal to habits of intellectual self-respect in the society which allows itself to be amused by the cajolery and legerdemain and self-sophistication of its rulers. On Compromise You juggling villain!" said the baronet; "this is some legerdemain trick of yours to get off from the performance of your promise, as you have so often done before. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction With this knowledge, it is clear that the investigator has to deal with a simple question of legerdemain. Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert This legerdemain, or squeezing system, would not do for the latitude of London. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 I am the jolly repeater, And I train with the magical band, Who the legerdemain of the ballot With the skill of a wizard command. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870 "Tell us," the pastor returned, "what legerdemain he made use of." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. There is certainly some philological legerdemain, as may be seen from some of the convenient conclusions of the author concerning the Celts and the Gauls. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 In dismissing this subject of Independent Slate Writing, we repeat, what we think Spiritualists will generally grant, that this phenomenon can be performed by legerdemain. Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert To dream of practising legerdemain, or seeing others doing so, signifies you will be placed in a position where your energy and power of planning will be called into strenuous play to extricate yourself. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition The Bishop was fairly taken in by his clever legerdemain, and when once his first distrust was conquered, appeared as anxious to deceive himself as even Delisle could have wished. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 As for the dates of dung, and the paper money, they are mere feats of legerdemain. The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain By some legerdemain the Admiral found that he was clutching in his right hand one of the obnoxious bills. Beyond the City There is really no step in the bare process of producing this writing, as we have observed it, which might not be accomplished by trickery or by legerdemain. Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert I wished I had learned legerdemain instead of Hebrew, that I might have paid the fellow out with his own coin. Island Nights' Entertainments They took the alchymist at his word, and besieged his doors, to see and wonder at the clever legerdemain by which he turned iron nails into gold and silver. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 The first portion of the lecture was somewhat commonplace, the lecturer giving tricks of pure legerdemain, with one or two manifestations of mesmerism, performed upon a subject whom he had brought with him. The Captain of the Polestar In fact, the art of tendering the lips for these amatory salutes follows the principles laid down in treatises on legerdemain for performing the trick called Forcing a Card. A Pair of Blue Eyes By such elementary tricks of legerdemain as these are guileless, honest folk deceived. Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert She was in love with a conjurer, a common, flashy fellow, who gave his mediocre exhibitions of legerdemain at such places as Le Jardin Extérieur, and had recently come to lodge at her mother's. A Chair on the Boulevard He put the bottle aside, blinked at the safe approvingly, and by further exercise of powers of legerdemain materialized a pocket kodak and a flashlight pistol. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf The world is all a cheat; its pleasures are for him who is most expert in legerdemain and cajolery; and he is a fool indeed who is juggled out of his share of them. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor There was a Swede that came back next day to her anchorage, which was said to have got back-strapped, behind the Rock, by some legerdemain, and so escaped also. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast Yet this correspondence showed here and there a degree of financial legerdemain of which any City swindler might have been proud—so far, at least, as he could judge from his hasty survey. Sir George Tressady — Volume I Of course, Monsieur le Comte believes all that; but he does not know so well as I the legerdemain in use among servants, who are accustomed to smuggling. The Room in the Dragon Volant What tricks and legerdemains with which Mercury does not cloak his thefts? The Praise of Folly But at length they observed, that, with a legerdemain worthy of a professor, he slipped something into every sweeper's hand as he passed him. Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 The situation was saved by a species of legerdemain—of card-shuffling, so to speak—which was quite outside the lines of mercantile morality, and barely inside the lines of legality itself. With the Procession Who pays, is a fact buried in the arcana of aldermanic legerdemain. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale The maitre d'hôtel and waiter with a twist of legerdemain set her place between myself and Lackaday. The Mountebank "Take back your beads, cummer; I know no legerdemain, can do no conjuring tricks," said the mediciner, who, more moved than perhaps his rugged nature had anticipated, endeavoured to avoid receiving the ill omened gift. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day There are foolish persons who think that metre is a species of verbal gymnastics, or legerdemain, of which the object is to win the admiration of the crowd. Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Hicks knew tricks of legerdemain which he played cleverly. The Lady of the Aroostook But the time was gone by with Alaric when such tricks of legerdemain were convincing to him. The Three Clerks Yet there is no legerdemain about writing a good letter; it is neither a matter of luck nor of genius. Business Correspondence The Entente had to deal with a mighty people, splendidly organized and equipped for war, and against that colossal force mere generalship was like a sort of legerdemain pitted against an avalanche. A Short History of the Great War A handsome young student is induced to enter the garden, partly from curiosity and partly through the legerdemain of Rappacini. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne The action is merely a light piece of legerdemain; but the follies which it portrays belong to a circle, and, with the imitations of the officers of court and advocates, form a complete whole. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature His work was not legerdemain, skilful manipulation, but recreation, and he found the aureate earth in the forests, on the prairies, and in documents contemporary to his theme. The French in the Heart of America "Sí, sí!" said Firio, as if all the knowledge in the world had flashed into his head quicker than the hand of legerdemain could run the leaves of a pack of cards through its fingers. Over the Pass The silver and the glasses had been removed, the word was given, and the strips of tablecloth vanished as though by some swift legerdemain. The Broken Road I can't afford to have my hands scratched, as I do some legerdemain tricks. Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater The Most Dangerous Performance on Record In this scenic arrangement there must be either legerdemain or a bad memory. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Patricia demanded, so quickly and so innocently that Mrs. Pendomer could not deny herself the glance of a charlatan who applauds his fellow's legerdemain. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations The sleight of plea and demurrer, the legerdemain by which justice is balked and a weak case is made to gain an unfair advantage, was too subtle and shifty for his strong and straightforward intelligence. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 If I want that commodity," rejoined the squire, "I must go to another market, I trow.—You legerdemain men be more like to conjure the money from our pockets than sense into our skulls. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves I have no legerdemain to invoke things out of the air, or to make a dry branch bud and blossom before the eyes. Our Friend John Burroughs And nothing but the utmost tact and skill in marine legerdemain enabled this functionary to convey the soup from the tureen to the plates. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths They had seemed to her vulgar toys, tricks of legerdemain, suited only for the wonder of the mob.... Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face Creation by omnipotent fiat seems easy when you have the omnipotent being to begin with, but creation through evolution is a kind of cosmic or biologic legerdemain that baffles and bewilders us. Time and Change She was amused by the frequency with which Shine Taylor and Reginald Warren plied their guest with cigarettes: Shirley's legerdemain in substituting them was worthy of the vaudeville stage. The Voice on the Wire There was in it that superiority in the art of legerdemain, of mere calm, astonishing manipulation, so applauded in regions where romance has not yet been quite trampled down by reason. The Imperialist Yet there is no trickery or rhetorical legerdemain. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers Life, in short seems tolerable to me only by legerdemain. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 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 These were to be strung together, and by an effort of legerdemain combined into a coherent whole in the form of a novel. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; Yet with a cleverness that would have done credit to a professor of legerdemain he had managed to extract two or three of the pellets. The War Terror His face was surly, as though the face of a ghost, called from important work among asteroids needing his care, by the trivial legerdemain of some foolish novice. Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley You seem to have grown rich by some legerdemain or other, Lucretia. Prince Eugene and His Times We have just witnessed a very clever and very amusing piece of legerdemain. The Days Before Yesterday The one was the lingo, the other the legerdemain. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason I can only say that I never was more completely mystified by any professor of legerdemain on the public platform. The Guilty River He was inclined to believe that some supernatural legerdemain had to do with these periodic impacts of Picotee on his path. The Hand of Ethelberta In 212:21 legerdemain and credulous frenzy, mortals believe that unseen spirits produce the flowers. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures I am posed, puzzled and perplexed by the legerdemain of a creature—a deity rather; by Aphrodite, as a poet would put it, as I should put it myself in marble. The Well-Beloved But "Progress and Poverty" changes all that by a little verbal legerdemain:— . Evolution and Ethics In winter, the women told fortunes, the men showed tricks of legerdemain; and these accomplishments often helped to while away a weary or stormy evening in the circle of the "farmer's ha'." Guy Mannering By some uncanny legerdemain he had gotten control of himself and the situation at the same time. The Lani People And I had come to be oppressed by what seemed to me the futility of art—a pompous legerdemain, a consummate charlatanry that deceived not only its devotees but its practitioners. The Mutiny of the Elsinore To make it therefore ground of accusation against a class of men, that they are not patriotic, is the most vulgar legerdemain of sophistry. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Was such a feat of legerdemain ever seen? Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 One of the most remarkable believers in that forgotten and despised science, was a late eminent professor of the art of legerdemain. Guy Mannering The whole art of Mr Mill's essay consists in one simple trick of legerdemain. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 The Grand Canyon he dug in my jar of jam, however, could not have been accomplished by legerdemain. The Last of the Plainsmen He had prosecuted his studies, also, under a traveling sage who united the mysteries of medicine with magic and legerdemain. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American Again, he has some decided interest in the subject of cancers and, perhaps, some interest in legerdemain, if we may judge from his perusal of Robert Houdin's book. The Darrow Enigma Did you call that little exhibition of yours legerdemain, Tim, you sweep? The Shape of Fear It reminded me of the old legerdemain that I'd read in books about the Pied Piper of Heidsieck charming the children away from the town. The Gentle Grafter Barnum amused the passengers with his inexhaustible fund of anecdotes and stories, and the tricks of legerdemain, which he had learned and used in the South under rather different circumstances. The Life of Phineas T. Barnum Then, too, it is now distinctly bad form to practise legerdemain or feats of sleight-of-hand at a dinner party. Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises But, O Heavens, what enchantment is it, or devilish legerdemain, of such effect, that Perfect Felicity, always within arm's length, could never be laid hold of, but only in her stead Controversy and Scarcity? The French Revolution Following the fourth pipe—Pyne, after the second, had ceased to trouble to repeat his feat of legerdemain, "The sleep" claimed Mrs. Sin. Dope |
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