There is another class of adepts, such as sleight of hand performers, slack rope dancers, teachers of animals to perform extraordinary tricks; in short, those persons who delude the senses, and practise harmless deceptions on spectators, included under the common appellation of jugglers.

She chose to be very gracious to her husband's life-long friend, giving him a small, plump hand in a welcoming grip, establishing him in an instant, by some sleight of femininity which King did not plumb, as a hearthside intimate most affectionately regarded.

=Water People, The.= By Charles Lee Sleight.

But even granting that, by a skill almost clever enough for sleight of handa skill which only the smartest pickpocket in Europe could possesswhy should a thief who had stolen my letter-case give me instead a string of diamonds worth many thousands of pounds?

When we see death Represented, we are convinced it is but fiction; but when we hear it Related, our eyes (the strongest witnesses) are wanting, which might have undeceived us: and we are all willing to favour the sleight, when the Poet does not too grossly impose upon us.

Joe Strong seemed destined for a circus life and for entertaining audiences with sleight-of-hand and other mystery matters.

With him Joe, who had a natural aptitude for the business, learned to become a sleight-of-hand performer.

But now that he did a trapeze act, as well as working the sleight-of-hand mysteries, his time was pretty well occupied.

Joe saw that everything was in readiness for his sleight-of-hand work, and then examined his Box of Mystery.

It was Sinclair who had caught the friendless stripling in the act of sleight of hand in the middle of the night when the laborers, tired out, slept as if stunned.

"Jugglery," M. de Labédollière goes on to say, "at that time embraced poetry, music, dancing, sleight of hand, conjuring, wrestling, boxing, and the training of animals.

From this remark we may understand their fall as well as the disrepute in which they were held at that time, and we are not surprised to find in an old edition of the "Mémoires du Sire de Joinville" this passage, which is, perhaps, an interpolation from a contemporary document: "St. Louis drove from his kingdom all tumblers and players of sleight of hand, through whom many evil habits and tastes had become engendered in the people."

Thus spake the champion bold of mind; And thus the Colourist rejoin'd: In truth, my Lord, I apprehend, If I by words with him contend, My case is gone; far he, by gift Of what is call'd the gab, can shift The right for wrong, with such a sleight, That right seems wrong and wrong the right; Nay, by his twisting logick make A square the form of circle take.

A bad sand road requires considerable sleight of hand on the part of the engineer if he wishes to pull much of a load through it.

In conversation about picking cotton, he said, 'some hands cannot get the sleight of it.

The boy was also a clever conjuror, and, arrayed in a brown wig and a long white robe, used to cause no little wonder to his audience by his sleight-of-hand.

Somehow you remind me of the sleight-of-hand performer producing an omelette from a silk hat.

When they were all nearly seventeen, their education was regarded as complete, for they had not only been taught the vedas and the commentaries on them, several languages, grammar, logic, philosophy, &c., but were well acquainted with poetry, plays, and all sorts of tales and stories; were accomplished in drawing and music, skilled in games, sleight of hand and various tricks, and practised in the use of weapons.

Occupied by this thought, I went into a gaming-house, where I was much interested and amused by watching the players and observing their tricks, their sleight-of-hand, their bullying or cringing behaviour to each other; the reckless profusion of the winners, the muttering despair of those who had lost.

Samuel & Beryl Epstein (A); 22Jun72; R531747. ALLEN, DONNA. Magic without apparatus: a treatise on the principles, old and new, of sleight-of-hand with cards.

Sleight-of-hand.

"I am clever at sleight-of-hand," said he, "or I could never have worked it.

Will ye see any feats of activity, Some Sleight of hand, Legerdemain?

A merry sleight toy: but now I'll show your Worships A trick indeed.

Lastly the same small ball is to be practised in the palme of your hand, and so by vse, you shall not only seeme to put any ball from you, and yet retaine it in your hand, but you shall keepe fower or fiue, as clenly and certaine as one, this being first learned and sleight attayned vnto, you shall worke wonderfull feates: as for ensample.

No liquid has nearly so wide a range of dissolving powers, and, taking things all round, no liquid exercises so slight an action upon the bodies dissolvedevaporate the water away, and the dissolved substance is obtained in an unchanged condition; at any rate, this is the general rule.

A slight cloudiness indicates a trace of chlorides, and a decided milkiness shows the presence of a larger quantity.

This I account for by the theory that when the rails are wet and the tubes moist the better contact made compensates for the slight leakage that may occur.

Their formation may be briefly described as follows: When Vaucheria has reached the proper stage in its life cycle, slight swellings appear here and there on the sides of the filament.

Any slight inaccuracy can be compensated by the cone and disk device.

Then adjust the cylinder part, with its partitions, allowing it to sink into the slight depth of molten matter.

This needle is also capable of slight movement in a vertical plane, so that when passing over or under a mass of iron it is attracted downward or upward, and completes a circuit by means of the stops, which operate so as to explode the charge.

Within the last few years the present shop windows facing the Groote Market have been put up and various slight alterations made to the lower part of the building to suit the requirements of the present occupiers.

Here we remark a slight increase in carbon, as should be the case.

One will remark here again a slight increase in the proportion of carbon, as was to be foreseen.

On the whole, however, these good people were not very inquisitive; and it was fortunate for them, for there was little chance and slight means of gratifying their curiosity.

Only one event of importance had occurred at Cherbury during these two years, if indeed that be not too strong a phrase to use in reference to an occurrence which occasioned so slight and passing an interest.

There was indeed in this, his milder moment, something very winning in his demeanour, and Lady Annabel deeply regretted that a nature of so much promise and capacity should, by the injudicious treatment of a parent, at once fond and violent, afford such slight hopes of future happiness.

This settlement of Mrs. Cadurcis and her son in the neighbourhood was an event of no slight importance in the life of the family at Cherbury.

'With his hair cropped, and in a Jesuit's cap?' inquired the Squire, with a slight sneer.

I wasin those daysrather a nice fellow, rather shy taste for grey in my clothes, weedy little moustache, face "interesting," slight stutter which I had caught in my early life from a schoolfellow.

I have already alluded to the slight stammer I had acquired from a schoolfellow in my youth.

I got up at eleven with a slight headache, read my notice in the Fiery Cross, breakfasted, and went back to my room to shave, (It's my habit to do so.)

An object-lesson on the subject of closed ports was given in our cabin, where the fair chatelaine was reclining in her berth reading, fanned by the genial air which floated in at the open port,a truculent Red Sea billow, meeting a slight roll of the ship, entered the cabin in an unbroken fall on the lady's head.

CRILLY You put a slight on us all when you go there to live.

A sharp rowel had picked through the skin, and, though it was probably only a slight wound indeed, it had brought a smear of red to the surface.

They saw that Grosvenor, Stuart and Cabell had escaped with slight wounds, and, slipping quietly into the forest, they circled about Fort Duquesne, seeing the lights where the Indians were burning their wretched prisoners alive, and then plunging again into the woods.

Her graceful head, with its slight and becoming touches of gray at the temples, rested like a fine cameo against the warm hue of the cushion.

" "He fancied," said Brown"he and the motherthat there was a slight resemblance between my looks and those of the son.

The heat of the oven for baking should be sufficient to form a slight crust over all sides of the bread before the air escapes, but not sufficient to brown it within the first fifteen minutes.