The wand is usually held in the left hand, while the right, in which is the end of the thread, holds the lapel of the coat, when all that is necessary to obtain the desired result is to move the left hand to or from the body as required.
Palm the lemon in your right hand, holding the lapel of your coat the better to conceal the fruit as you come down among the audience.
On one occasion, I saw the celebrated Herrmann completely bewildered and nonplussed because he did not have such a little thing as a pin stuck in the lapel of his coat, intended for use in the cornucopia and flower trick.
The awe-stricken and happily thrilled crowd parted obediently to let a fat man with a silver star on his coat lapel pass majestically toward the platform.
The detective made a step forward, turned his back on the rest of the shop, unbuttoned his outer coat, lifted the lapel of the inner one, and uncovered his shield.
She breathed a cold, lifeless kiss upon the boy's pale forehead, and the tiny hand of the child caressed the fur trimming on her jacket, just as he had done with the astrachanlapel of my coat.
In his lapel was an inevitable carnation, dried, shrunken, and lamentable.
One of the gardeners discovered the fact that Jadwin affected gardenias in the lapel of his coat, and thereat was at immense pains to supply him with a fresh bloom from the conservatory each morning.
Take them along, Brutus," and they left the room in silence, while my father watched them thoughtfully, and arranged the lapel on his coat.
My father was facing him about two paces distant, his hand on the wet and bedraggled lapel of his coat, his glance vague and thoughtful, as though he was examining at his leisure some phenomenon of nature.
Chia Jung was standing next to lady Feng, out of the light of the lamp, and stealthily pulled the lapel of her dress.
Promptly therefore unbuttoning his coat, he produced from inside the lapel the purse, which had been fastened there.
Like drooping plum-bloom flap the lapel red and the Hsiang gown.
The business girl clapped on a pair of earphones and whispered into a lapel mike.
Soon he was sitting tensely upright on his stool, eyes bright and lower face all a-smile, muttering terse comments and questions into the lapel mike torn from Meg's fair neck.
Beer was flowing: sailors on the train were tipsy: women were holding young men by the lapel of the coat.
Then with the unaccountability of the unfathomable feminine, she deliberately detached one of the dainty blooms and, standing with the filmy laces on her bosom brushing against his chest, deftly fastened it on the lapel of his coat.
Savagely he caught hold of the other's coat lapel and shook him with an incredible strength.
On the lapel of his overcoat glistened his social and official badges, augmented by a new and particularly shiny emblem of respect bestowed by the citizens of Tinkletown.
His badges were pinned neatly to his lapel and not to his suspenders, as in the days of yore.
Marshal Crow first went to his home and donned his blue coat, transferring the stars and badges to the greasy lapel of the garment.
He was leaning against the town pump in front of the post-office, the sun glancing impotently off the bright badge on the lapel of his alpaca coat.
He even wore on one lapel of his coat the variegated button of some mysterious decoration.
He removed a white hair from the lapel of his closely-buttoned-up frock coat, and passed his hand over his cheeks, moustache, and square chin.
She dropped them, fastening in the lapel of his coat a flaunting red flower set against a shining leaf, and there was a gentle, joyous subterfuge in her answer.
She raised her hand timidly to the lapel of my coat, and suddenly I felt her palm, cool and firm, upon my forehead.
Mr. Braden took hold of thelapel of his fellow-townsman's coat.
Then she saw that the hair was longer, and more wavy than his, and fell down a little over the velvet collar of a coat with a wide lapel and brass buttons, and that the original of this portrait had worn a stock.
Farther around the railing a distinguished looking old gentleman of soldierly bearing, who wore a tiny red ribbon in the lapel of his frock coat, loudly blew his nose and pressed a kerchief of delicate weave to his brimming eyes.
He wore a particularly effective waistcoat of white piqué striped with narrow black lines, and there was a pink carnation in the lapel of the superbly tailored frock coat.
Then he remembered that he must have noticed a badge pinned to the left lapel of a jacket that had been fashioned--with no great difficulty, he thought--to give its wearer the appearance of perfect physical development.
If she presents boutonnieres to the best man and the ushers, they should appear at her house before the ceremony and have her place them in the lapel of their coats.
If the bride presents the best man with the boutonniere, he should go to her house on the wedding-day to have her put it in the lapel of his coat.
Sometimes the ushers call at the house of the bride to have her fix them in the lapel of their coats.
She thought she saw a white flower on hislapel as his overcoat fell back.
He put a large, firm hand up and touched the upper edge of the left lapel of his jacket.
His fingers came into contact with a glassheaded pin similarly embedded in the upper edge of the lapel of his own coat.
Brash came out of Dyce's house for the first time in two days, very sunken in the eyes and sorely needing shaving, and it could be noticed by the dullest that he had his jaunty walk and a flower in the lapel of his badly crushed coat.
And besides, there was this advantage: to servants in Europe a button or a slip of ribbon in the lapel signifies an order, a nobility of one sort or another, and as a consequence they treat the wearer with studied civility.
Hillard went to the table, selected a rose, and drew it through the lapel of his coat.
That night, when the boys came down to dinner, no little white flower with its diamond dewdrop centre shone on the lapel of either coat.
I wore a tag on my coat lapel with my name and destination written on it.
She looked at it in silence a moment, and then pinned it on the lapel of her traveling coat.
He reached in his pocket and brought forth the note he had prepared, and stepped toward the prisoner, reaching to his lapel for a pin.
Before going there put a bit of red ribbon on the lapel of your coat.
