By such elementary tricks of legerdemain as these are guileless, honest folk deceived.
Near them are a number of balls,[148] and two cups; which intimate that this company of comedians practise sleight of hand, and to fill their house will sometimes condescend to play legerdemain tricks.
Containing ample Instructions for Performances in Legerdemain with Cups and Balls, Eggs, Hats, Handkerchiefs, &c.
Schlesinger, leaving it to others more competent than I to determine whether they are the manifestations of some psychic force at present unadmitted by scientists or the legerdemain of a sleight-of-hand performer.
Those who were not interested in his feats of legerdemain flocked to hear his superb performances on the piano.
Sleight of hand; a Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs and Others.
By the power of his address and wit he invested the most insignificant feats of legerdemainwith a peculiar charm.
The piper is pretty much in his original state; but the hobby-horse wants the legerdemain apparatus, and Maid Marian is not remarkable for the elegance of her person.
That he can do, and in the great majority of cases actually does perform, such remarkable financial legerdemain is a fact that is entirely due to the vicious system on which the whole civil service in China is based.
I by no means deny that the art of legerdemain is capable of producing results which to an ignorant observer have the appearance of being supernatural.
No art of legerdemain can persuade a man who has been for many years blind to believe that he has recovered his sight, and enable him to act accordingly.
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.
We have seen that the publicity of everything about the exposition peremptorily forbids every form of legerdemain during the ceremony.
I met and became well acquainted with a celebrated conjurer, as he called himself, Robert-Houdin, but who was not only a prestidigitateur and legerdemain performer, but a mechanic of absolute genius.
During my visit, Houdin was giving evening legerdemain performances, and by his pressing invitation I frequently was present.
The legerdemain and humbuggery of the whole affair are too transparent to deceive any eye but that of a credulous American.
He may astonish the natives by his "wonderful feats," but with all his legerdemain he cannot deceive me in any of his movements.
Oh, by the way, did you ever see any sleight of hand or legerdemain tricks?
Legerdemain had scared him some and made him both suspicious and wary.
Creation by omnipotent fiat seems easy when you have the omnipotent being to begin with, but creation through evolution is a kind of cosmic or biologic legerdemain that baffles and bewilders us.
Strike out the element of time and we have before us a spectacle more novel and startling than any hocus-pocus or legerdemain that ever set the crowd agape.
In this, as in other cases, the truth is, that Shakespeare wrote with all care, and indulged in neither legerdemain nor clap-trap.
Another attraction at the camp was a conjuror, who had been called to exhibit twice before the imperial party, and whom Dickens always afterwards referred to as the most consummate master of legerdemain he had seen.
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.
From these authorities, perhaps, a professor of legerdemainassured Dr.
Here I met Henry Hawley a legerdemain performer, about forty-five years of age, but as he was prematurely gray he looked at least seventy, and I sold him one-half of my exhibition.
Legerdemain is an art whereby one may seem to work wonderful, impossible, and incredible things, by agility, nimbleness, and slight of hand.
Merry Andrew was practising his buffooneries and legerdemain tricks in one quarter, the itinerant Methodist preacher was holding forth in another.
There was a legerdemain man got his machinery knocked to pieces, and his head broken.
One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.
One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand.
An hiccuping votary of Bacchus, displaying a half-emptied purse, is not likely to possess it long; for an adroit professor of legerdemain has taken aim with an hooked stick, and by one slight jerk will convey it to his own pocket.
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