10 Verbs to Use for the Word sleight

Of Henry Constable, the poet indicated doubtless by the initiais H. C., we have a charming song between Phillis and Amaryllis, the counterpart and imitation of Spenser's 'Bonibell' ballad: P. Fie on the sleights that men devise (Heigho, silly sleights!)

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.

Then having felt the crafty sleights of Fortune's fickle train, Is forc'd to seek by virtue's aid to be relieved again.

To-day, I come for another reason; To foster and ripen an evil thought In a heart that is almost to madness wrought, And to make a murderer out of a prince, A sleight of hand I learned long since!

I suppose you have a certain right to be presentso, if you like sleight-of-hand, sit down.

As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight; And still the less they understand, The more admire the slight of hand.

The fatal facility with which Mr. Gladstone multiplies expressions stately and sonorous, but of indeterminate meaning, eminently qualifies him to practise this sleight on himself and on his readers.

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.

The symbol speaks, though variously applied, Of snaking sleight that soaring strength assails, And strives to drag it from its place of pride,

But first to try a little sleight Sure news of Mosby would suit me quite."

10 Verbs to Use for the Word  sleight