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Example sentences for "jugglery"

Lexicographically close words:
jugged; juggle; juggled; juggler; jugglers; juggles; juggling; jugi; jugis; jugs
  1. And all the shifting phantom-jugglery of dreams, all the sweet soothing witcheries, and all the teasing and tantalizing imagery of dream-land, rightly belong to their province.

  2. If another can understand, he said, how jugglery can explain the facts, well and good--he can not.

  3. He says merely, that to him, subjectively, jugglery did not seem a good "or sufficient" explanation of the phenomena.

  4. Nothing could show the desperation of the retreating party better than jugglery like this.

  5. The above manner of disposing of the hollow bones is a clever trick and not readily detected, and it is only by such acts of jugglery and other delusions that he maintains his influence and importance among the credulous.

  6. Illustration: Marvellous piece of jugglery 272] "What did you do that for?

  7. All this is much in the usual style; but what followed was so much superior to the ordinary run of modern Indian jugglery that we must give it in the simple Siddeshur's own words.

  8. Is not this rather a severe strain on one's credulity, even for an Indian jugglery story?

  9. What we have said of the modes thus examined is true of all attempted explanations based on some supposed feat of jugglery or legerdemain during the exposition.

  10. The first class attributes the liquefaction, or seeming liquefaction, to some kind of jugglery or legerdemain practised by the officiating clergymen during the exposition of the relics.

  11. While it is true that it has much that is mere jugglery and charlatanism, it is quite possible that it may have something that is diabolically real.

  12. Undeniably there is much jugglery and conscious deception on the part of the magic doctors.

  13. If in Christian lands the enchantments of the hoodoo are only jugglery and nothing else, it may be that Satan's power is limited under the broad light of Christianity.

  14. Just as though He were bound to honor our jugglery as a reward of our treading His solemn commandments under foot.

  15. No fortune-telling jugglery shall blight my darling boy's life while I can help it.

  16. Sir Jasper Kingsland cried, "what jugglery is this?

  17. There was no jugglery about this; there was immediate intimate relation between cause and effect.

  18. But even then I only consented to go ahead with the flotation under a definite agreement which seemed to me completely to guard against all contingencies of jugglery or deception.

  19. Its flotation was the most tremendous and public ever even attempted, much less successfully carried out, and in its market career the full resources of stock jugglery were exercised on its behalf.

  20. The first of these was devoted to proving me crazy, and it was carefully circulated by my friends the insurance companies by way of offsetting the effects of my revelations of their jugglery of the people's funds.

  21. That was a case of high mystification, of jugglery worthy of a street-corner mountebank.

  22. The hypothesis of jugglery and mystification, dear to certain critics, has not the least application to this case, although I admit that rappings and movements are often produced as practical jokes by waggish persons.

  23. Moreover, these books were not written with the grave philosophic purpose that animated our own hermetic school; it is rather a sort of jugglery practised with the subject---an exercise of ingenuity and invention for their own sake.

  24. Taking a comprehensive view of the whole field, therefore, it seems to be divided between discreet and supercilious skepticism on one side, and, on the other, the clamorous jugglery of charlatanism.

  25. Here, however, as is usual with him, we find a good deal more of self-complacent phrase-jugglery than of serious philosophy.

  26. A mere jugglery with the administrative entities, the absorption of small States into large ones, or the breaking up of large States into small, is not of itself going to affect the matter one way or the other.

  27. The capitalist has no country, and he knows, if he be of the modern type, that arms and conquests and jugglery with frontiers serve no ends of his, and may very well defeat them.

  28. 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.

  29. Thus you will be able to perform all manner of jugglery tricks--tricks that will set the whole world gaping.

  30. The following night they would be in possession of new powers, such powers as would warrant them giving a gratis exhibition--an exhibition of jugglery absolutely new and unprecedented.

  31. Such jugglery was promptly weighed in Spain and Italy by Peter Martyr and others as the wild, disjointed effusions of an overwrought mind, and "the reflex of a false erudition," as Humboldt expresses it.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jugglery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.