She owned that they could not have arrived at a better time, as most probably the magicians would meet that very night.
Therefore, I am not afraid that you will be afraid of the magicians and dragons; besides, you see that a really brave boy or girl was always their master, even in the height of their power.
Yonder line of cranes standing in the shallow water, watching us, may, God wot, be tall magicians in white linen and scarlet silk!
But as for magicians, there may be magicians among them as there are among all peoples, but it is falseness and absurdity to speak of all as magicians!
Then Pharaoh called his magicians and jugglers and bade them do the same.
And Moses anon took it, and cast it under his feet and trod on it, wherefore the king was wroth, and demanded of the great doctors and magicians what should fall of this child.
Thus, if in this day of civilization I possess any knowledge in advance of other scientists, I suppose that I am as truly a wizard, as were themagicians of the ancients.
Another class of magicians were the maleficent sorcerers who caused people to fall ill and die by burning their personal rubbish.
No doubt, as you say, where power is supreme, one can do as one likes and suffer no injury; but we poor magicians are not so situated.
It is only young magiciansthat give away a secret like that.
Magicians and sorcerers[1] were supposed by their arts to have power in this world of demons, the forfeit being their own souls, lost beyond redemption.
Footnote 1: Magicians were able to command spirits to do their bidding, while sorcerers, though they could summon demons, were obliged to obey them.
The use of scarlet wool as a charm is of great antiquity, and is supposed to be originally derived from the practices of the magicians of Babylon.
If you are truly Christ who was to come, then you can surely do what blackmagicians cannot do.
Now, it is impossible to study the careers of these magicians in Poland and Germany without being reminded of their counterparts in France.
Church which has persecuted the Templars, burned the magicians and excommunicated the Free-Masons, etc.
All the extraordinary details of these events have recently been described in the book of Madame Latour, where the intimate connexion between the poisoners and the magicians is shown.
The Magicians The part played by magicians during the period preceding the French Revolution is of course a matter of common knowledge and has never been disputed by official history.
It is a mere coincidence that this group of Jewish Cabalist miracle-workers should have existed in Germany and Poland at the precise moment that the Cabalist magicians sprang up in France?
For his part he should be glad when the fair was ended and the magicians had gone their way.
It was thus that the Prince and the Earl presently approached the table, partly from curiosity, partly from a sense of semi-superstitious belief in the power of these so-called magicians to read the future.
They differ from surrounding Negroes in having no veneration for the departed, no amulets, no magiciansor professional priests.
The same ideas are always expressed by the same signs; yet the magicians declared that there was no alphabet, the hieroglyphs being handed down bodily from one expert to another.
The Christians, too, were often looked upon as magicians who caused all sorts of disasters.
Many of them were under the influence of eunuchs, magicians and soothsayers, and many of those who were not assassinated died from taking the Taoist medicine called Elixir of Immortality.
The ghosts of those who have died a violent death are dangerous but it would seem that Siamese magicians know how to utilize them as familiar spirits.
When children fall ill in the surrounding villages, the magicians often give orders that paper figures of them be burned at her altar, or little lime images of them be placed around it.
Once the Emperor called together all his magiciansin order to talk with them about the fields of the blessed spirits.
He dabbled largely in magic, and drew to his court many magicians whose labors are collected in the philosophical work which bears his name.
He called inmagicians to aid him, in hope of meeting the eight old men himself.
Soon after this the unhappy fate of the princess became generally known in Famagusta, and now the magicians knew how to interpret the vision of the genius with the maiden in his arms.
Both magicians had recognised the genius, but not the princess, and exhausted themselves in all manner of conjectures as to the meaning of this appearance, without being able to get at any thing certain, or even probable.
In the lower forms of religion magic is worked not only by magicians but by priests as well; spells and prayers are hardly to be distinguished from one another.
Thus, though he no longer regards priests as transmogrified magicians, he does regard magicians as the earliest men of science, and does regard science, therefore, as a highly developed stage of magic.
And the magicians ran before it as it chased them as a lynx chases rabbits; they were entirely beaten.
Now the old man, the father of the evil magicians and his adopted father, had only one eye, and was half gray.
Only the wicked magicians in Indian tales change their sex, like Loki in the Edda.
The magicians of all countries, be they of Africa, Asia, or North America, are invariably represented by travelers as holding their flock in subjection, and never being doubted as to power or skill.
And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments.
In late times magiciansused to write the above Legend on papyrus above figures of Temu and Heru-Hekenu, who gave Rā his secret name, and over figures of Isis and Horus, and sell the rolls as charms against snake bites.
Straightway the king ordered his magicians (or medicine men) to appear before him, and also his nobles, and when they came he told them that he had sent for them to come and hear the ambassador's request.
Footnote 1: These were probably books and instruments which the magicians of the day used in making astrological calculations, or in working magic.
No; these magicians may rob me of success, but never of my invincible greatness of mind.
Then the magicians played a deathspell on their strings, and there arose a humming along the blade of Sacnoth as he turned the spell aside.
When Leothric dropped not down, and they heard the humming of Sacnoth, the magicians arose and fled, all wailing, as they went, upon their strings.
St. Paul informs us that Jannès and Jambrès, famous magicians of the time of Pharaoh, resisted Moses.
It is said that magicians and sorcerers themselves, when they fall into the hands of judges and inquisitors, are often the first to maintain that magic and sorcery are merely imaginary, and the effect of popular prejudices and errors.
To be convinced of this truth, it suffices to observe that the pretended magicians are, and ever have been, anything but learned; on the contrary, they are very ignorant and illiterate men.
We learn from Suidas, "that those were called magicians who filled their heads with vain imaginations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "magicians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
