What, as melancholy as a mantle-tree? Will you see any tricks of legerdemain, sleight of hand, cleanly conveyance, or deceptio visus?

"I can't afford to have my hands scratched, as I do some legerdemain tricks.

as if I had, like Katerfelto, the by-gone professor of legerdemain, cried "Presto," the scene changed, and both man and woman, who were Americans of the lower class, commenced bullying me in right earnest.

" CHAPTER XVIII LEGERDEMAIN

legerdemain &c (trick) 545.

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 first is to instruct the Students in State Legerdemain, as how to take off the Impression of a Seal, to split a Wafer, to open a Letter, to fold it up again, with other the like ingenious Feats of Dexterity and Art.

And I train with the magical band, Who the legerdemain of the ballot With the skill of a wizard command.

Now, we ask, by what process of pro-slavery legerdemain, this regulation can be made to harmonize with the doctrine of WORK WITHOUT PAY?

Now, we ask, by what process of pro-slavery legerdemain, this benevolent regulation can be made to be in keeping with the doctrine of WORK WITHOUT PAY? Did God declare the poor stranger entitled to RELIEF, and in the same breath, authorize them to "use his services without wages;" force him to work, and ROB HIM OF ALL HIS EARNINGS?

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 the whole I imagine there never was a better subject to cope with a sorcerer; and when he asked the cause of the immediate preparations we told him the man was going to show some feats of legerdemain such as he used to see in India.

The elder of the two ivory carvings spent his breathing spells in philosophic reverie; the younger employed his leisure in rummaging on the neighbouring "dump" for empty tobacco tins, which he concealed about his person by a succession of feats of legerdemain (by the end of the morning I estimated him to be in possession of about thirty specimens).

The rule of the majority is so very sacred a thing that it is found necessary to regulate it by legerdemain.

"Indeed, falshood and legerdemain sink the character of a prince.

The substance of his answer is, "The explanation and etymology of these words require a degree of knowledge in all the antient northern languages, and a skill in the application of that knowledge, which I am very far from assuming; and though I am almost persuaded by some of my own conjectures concerning them, I am not willing, by an apparently forced and far-fetched derivation, to justify your imputation of etymological legerdemain.

SACHS, EDWIN T. Sleight-of-hand; a practical manual of legerdemain for amateurs and others.

SACHS, EDWIN T. Sleight-of-hand; a practical manual of legerdemain for amateurs and others.

" That brought him down off his high horsethat is, muleand I sent the deputy in with him with directions to toss his clothes out to me, for I wanted to keep my eye on Miss Cullen and her brothers, so as to prevent any legerdemain on their part.

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.

Let me read her letter; it might suggest somethingsome feline legerdemain method of conjuring four fine kittens into a first prize black male cat.

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.

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 onceit is mere legerdemain.

Of course, Hearne believes that this was mere legerdemain, and (p. 216) mentions a most suspicious circumstance.

" 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.