A thousand head of cattle were bought, and hurrying workmen were busy stacking vast ricks of prairie-hay near the large barn that was rising like magic under the trowels of a score of masons.
Grant them the patient magic That gives eyes to the blind!
Soon the moon would be up, to hang like a great lamp from that splendid dome, turning sea and shore to a magic world by her light.
That visit was like magic medicine, and the child grew better at once, for hope was born in her heart.
We are sitting in the shadow Of a long and lonely night, Waiting till some gentle angel Comes to lead us to the light; For we know there is a magic That can give eyes to the blind.
By his magic the giant that lies on the mountain was turned to stone.
What magic strange Had she to work her strange endeavor?
With single voice they all proclaimed The magic spot a sacred place.
For the waves of Gitchee Gumee Washed away the frost and wrinkles, And the spirits by theirmagic Made her young and fair forever.
But Priscilla's first effort was a great success; for the magic of a kind look glorified the dingy office, and every bottle on the shelves might have been filled with the elixir of life, so radiant did Phil's face become.
But best of all were the moonlight seances among the roses; for there they interchanged interesting confidences and hovered about those dangerous but delightful topics that need the magic of a midsummer night to make the charm quite perfect.
Nay, more, for the past year had been imperceptibly transforming that mild sentiment into a much warmer one by the magic of beauty, youth, and time.
We read in the same place that the charming away of women by magic was one of the chief sources of fights and quarrels.
They sometimes express customary rules of magic origin and are no sign of contempt at all.
Central Tribes a man who has by magic charmed away a woman can reckon upon the actual support of a definite group of his kindred.
What Dawson says about separation and husbands recurring to magic to influence their wives, seems to speak still more in favour of the good position of women.
But the best example of the ideas of kinship of the magic order is to be found among the tribes studied and described by W.
Here come in ideas of themagic influences and virtues attributed to the sexual act.
In the Central tribes charming by magic and subsequent elopement led to a fight or ordeal, but the matter was apparently not very serious.
In the case of even friendly strangers a certain amount of mistrust--of evil magic as well as of actual bad intentions--may have operated.
On the one hand, such magic properties would require in some cases the waiving of individual sexual rights, as we saw in some of the instances just mentioned.
The cases of intergroup justice are very few, for evil magic is always looked for at a distance, and we have hardly any information about justice within the local group.
From this conception of the sexual act as endowed with some magic properties, there would result differences in the ideas and feelings connected with jealousy.
On one of the evenings before the service I exhibited the magic lantern to the Fort Simpson people, showing them some Scriptural views and the sufferings of martyrs.
They belong to the spiritual world; or to the doubtful ground of Magic which lay between Good and Evil.
The others followed her, and Circè seated them on thrones and gave them food and wine, but in the wine she had secretly infused a magic juice which made them forget home and friends and all desire to see their native land.
She then anointed them with a magic ointment, and their bristles fell off and they stood up and were men again.
Thou art the first man over whom my magic wine has had no power.
The air is different from any air that ever blew; the space is ampler than most spaces, because it runs back to the unhampered Pole, and the open land keeps the secret of its magic as closely as the sea or the desert.
Said an Afrite of the Railway as we passed in our magic carpet: 'You've no notion of the size of our tourist-traffic.
The definite separation of medicine from magic and religion begins with Hippocrates.
There is little real difference between the magic that appears as piety and the magic that is denounced as sorcery, except that one is permitted and the other is not.
It is of no importance to our present enquiry whether magic precedes religion or not.
It is at all events certain that they are very closely connected, and that conditions which foster the belief in magic likewise serve to strengthen religious belief.
Lend thy hand, And pluck my magic garment from me.
Abstinence How intoxicating indeed, how penetrating--like a most precious wine--is that love which is the sexual transformed by the magic of the will into the emotional and spiritual!
Later, when her dream has ceased And she softly stirs and wakes, Then it is as when the East A sudden rosy magic takes From the cloud-enfolded sun, And full day breaks!
With invisible magichand she smooths the rough earthworks, fills the rifle-pits with delicate flowers, and wraps the splintered tree-trunks with her fluent drapery of tendrils.
They lack the inspiration and magic of his secular poetry, and are frequently so fantastical and grotesque as to stir a suspicion touching the absolute soundness of Herrick's mind at all times.
I fear the gates of Fairyland may all be shut so fast That nothing but your magic keys will ever take me past.
Hildegardis, startled from hermagic sleep, uncertain whether she were waking or dreaming, fled bewildered and weeping bitterly into the deep shades of the alder-thicket.
When we read that great historic masterpiece, the "French Revolution" of Carlyle, the magic touch of the artist introduces us into the heart of every character in the motley, shifting scene.
It is a good and useful weapon against affectation, but it falls, shivered to pieces, from the magic breastplate of truth.
He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river.
Paul had faded, but the magic of his caress endured.
But the poetry of that kiss, the wonder of it, the magic that there was in life for hours after it--who can describe that?
She knew that out of Nature's device we have built a magic that will win us immortality.
A woman and two men--they had formed themagic triangle of sex, and the male was thrilled to jealousy, in case the female was attracted by another male.
Though robbed of half its magic by swift movement, it still conveyed the sense of hills.
In suchmagic moments, when enjoyment sheds its reflections on the future, the soul foresees nothing but happiness.
Then she said in a very low tone: "He never leaves me.
Once they saw wealth ahead--then the boom collapsed, and they have no longer any faith in the magic of the word 'oil.
He flung wide a shutter and let the afternoon sun flood the room, and once inside a score of little things worked the magic of memory upon him and tore afresh every wound that was festering.
What comes outen magic kain't hardly make me no enemies--but mebby hit mout enable ye ter discern somethin' thet would profit ye to a master degree.
Glory had made the magic of his brief happiness, but there was a background, too, of kindly souls and a ruggedly genuine welcome.
He had seen the pink flower of laurel and rhododendron make fragrant magic over wastes of chocolate and slag-gray mountain sides, and in himself something akin to these elemental forces had declared itself.
The old crone made her magic with abundant grotesquerie, but at its end she peered shrewdly into his eyes, and said: "I reads hyar in the omends thet mebby ye comes too late.
Half an hour's heat, and the magicjewels disappear with the dew.
Here we have themagic number e reappearing, written on a Spider's thread.
The conservative party recovered their power, and abused it as before; but the chains of the nation were broken, and no craft of kings or priests or statesmen could weld the magic links again.
If," he continued in the same vein, "you have an idea for an effective series of magic lantern slides, you will find the offices of the Union of Imperial Agencies in Whitehall.
