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Example sentences for "magic lantern"

  • Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern.

  • Fox, in the print, has settled himself comfortably at Dover; with a magic lantern to work his delusions, he is throwing painted images across the Channel, which are reflected on the cliffs of Calais.

  • I can understand the pictures, because there might have been a magic lantern somewhere, but that girl trick, and the basket trick, and that great snake are altogether beyond me.

  • Of course they could be accounted for as thrown upon a column of white smoke by a magic lantern, but there was certainly no magic lantern here.

  • An optical effect produced by a magic lantern.

  • A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.

  • But one dinner, and nothing else done, not so much as a magic lantern in the village!

  • The Argosy" and other papers, 2 magic lantern outfits, a scroll saw, a pair of skates and 300 stamps for a Safety bicycle.

  • St., Dayton, Ohio, a magic lantern with a few slides and 2 pairs of skates for a bound or unbound vol.

  • The lantern differs from the ordinary magic lantern in two features; first, it requires no expensive condensing lens, and second, the objects to be projected have no need of being transparent.

  • A small hole is [Illustration: Magic Lantern] cut in the paper and the lantern placed on a table in front of the hole, the lamp having been removed and the back opened.

  • Whatever Mrs. Emlyn might have said in reply was interrupted by the rush of the children towards her; they were tired of play, and eager for tea and the magic lantern.

  • Ghosts, were they permitted to appear except in a magic lantern, could not harm the innocent.

  • I have just got such a pretty note from Clemmy, Mr. Emlyn, asking me to come up this evening and see her new magic lantern.

  • Weel, the Provost shud juist keep a magic lantern handy, an' gar him bide in't.

  • Ye canna expeck a magic lantern to do what ye canna do yersel'.

  • But, of coorse, it's no' ilka day they see a magic lantern.

  • I turned and saw a man carrying what we call a magic lantern.

  • Most of those who appeared there simply passed on and off, as in a magic lantern; those whose only aim was to be amused went again and again.

  • But the great affair was the magic lantern.

  • There came an English ship of war into the harbour, and the officers good-naturedly gave an entertainment of songs and dances and a magic lantern, to which Arick and Austin were allowed to go.

  • So the little band of the heathen paused irresolute at the corner, and melted before the attractions of a magic lantern, like a glacier in spring.

  • The exhibition is produced by a magic lantern, placed on that side of a half-transparent screen which is opposite to that on which the spectators are, instead of being on the same side, as in the ordinary exhibition of the magic lantern.

  • A "ghost effect" may, where necessary, be produced by the aid of a magic lantern; the other lights of the tableau being lowered in order to give sufficient distinctness to the reflection.

  • Sir Felix suggested the following programme--(1) A Public Lecture in the Town Hall, with a Magic Lantern to exhibit the results of excessive drinking.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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