Then he took his sword and rendered it to the lady, conjuring her by their great love, never to give it to the hand of any, till their son should be counted a brave and worthy knight.
The King wrote letters to Eliduc, conjuring him by the loving friendship that was once between them, and summoning him as a vassal is required of his lord, to hasten to his aid, in that his bitter need.
His hand, in his trousers pocket, buries itself with a feeling of satisfaction in the heavy mixed coinage that is his share of the profits of his conjuring at the fair.
Mr. Hamlyn would tell us that Unction is a conjuring trick invented by the Jesuits.
The man had two sacramental wafers and he kept producing them out of a Bible, like a conjuring trick!
To this capacity his short stories entitled The Last Days of Rococo (1909) bear eloquent testimony, conjuring up as they do with charming winsomeness the spirit of the epoch that preceded the French Revolution.
He knew that signal; it came from a great machine that tore through the country every day, as if the point were to rescue and prevent a misfortune, instead of conjuring up one.
Hardly able to distinguish Light from dark, I employ myself with dirty little conjuring tricks.
Now, like any aborigine I only seek to ward off evil, to propitiate the Devil and the Powers of the Air, to drag the Holy Trinity into a forced compliance with my conjuring tricks.
They had no desire to spy any more, and went, confounded, to the Duchesse de Lauzun, to relate to her the cruel decree they had just heard pronounced, conjuring her to try and moderate it.
During the last century or so, again, while witchcraft has been extensively believed in, the witch has degenerated into a very vulgar and poverty stricken sort of conjuring woman.
In following up the thread of history, we always find conjuring or witch work of some kind, just as long as the narrative has space enough to include it.
Hence it has been a common practice of the Chinese authorities in time of drought to inter the dry bones of the unburied dead for the purpose of putting an end to the scourge and conjuring down the rain.
To explain them, the black is satisfied to say that they are an energetic mode of conjuring spirits.
Thus we are told of these people that "there is hardly a native who would dare to swallow a liquid without first conjuring the spirits.
He never expected this sort of thing when he lightheartedly accepted from the hospital orderly the box of medicines with a conjuring trick thrown in.
He had seen it done, of course, but had never yet tried to palm or to do anything else in the nature of a conjuring trick.
The thought of that conjuring trick was nauseating in the presence of this pain.
I was still puzzling my brains over his extraordinary conjuring trick--for trick I am convinced it was.
That it was only what he had called it, a conjuring trick, I felt I ought to be certain, but still it was clever and uncanny enough to render me very uncomfortable.
By the way, I should like to ask you a few questions about those self same conjuring tricks," I said.
I forget my companion and the previous conjuring trick.
This is Phadrig the Adept, as he is known in his own ancient land of Egypt, a worker of wonders which really are wonders, and not mere sleight-of-hand conjuring tricks.
You've got them on now, and we don't want any more of your conjuring tricks.
Ah yes, conjuringtricks you call them, you ignorants!
I have not the slightest desire to shake the fabric of Society to pieces, as I could do, and still less have I taste for spending the rest of my scientific career in what the world would very easily believe to be conjuring tricks.
Well, what are you, pray, with your communings with nature and conjuring tricks with nightingales?
Mr. Dennison even showed to Madge how a couple of his most astounding conjuring tricks were done, and Lady Ellington talked to her son-in-law in a corner about Madge, until the council of war summoned them to debate.
The conjuring tricks, as you call them, I suppose you will take for granted?
Of course, it was not a conjuring trick," he said.
He thought, and suddenly recalled a conjuring entertainment he had seen.
Why, we shall be going a thousand times faster than the quickest conjuring trick that was ever done.
Fact is, this is another of your silly conjuring tricks--that's what this is.
He cannot explain that and has avoided the best known trick of all Indian conjuring tricks.
Occasionally our conjuring friend breaks out from the stereotyped programme already described, and one of the most common additions to his programme is the "coloured sand" trick.
Don't let's make it worse by conjuring up superstitious terrors.
He was very well received, the Maid having preceded him and harangued the people at the barrier of the town, conjuring them to renounce the English party and become again French.
Columbus managed his landfalls with a fine dramatic sense as though they were conjuring tricks; and indeed they must have seemed like conjuring tricks, except that they were almost always successful.
At times she let herself go deliciously, stretching out her arms, conjuring up that first penetrating embrace.
He drew in his breath reflectively, conjuring up, with a tolerant smile, a picture out of forgotten days.
She said very sadly, as if conjuring up the figure of a mournful child, sinking her voice to a whisper: "My mother drank.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conjuring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
