Some have a hocus-pocus inscription purporting to be a verse of the Quran in Arabic; others have the name of Fatima coupled with that of the famous martyrs Hasan and Husain.
Some workmen, who were repairing the roof of a stable near by, made fun of this hocus-pocus and began to throw bits of lime at the conjurer.
Nobody ever despised more than Carlyle the perennial fallacy that things can be done better by the hocus pocus of procedure than by the intelligent application of the available means to the end desired.
Thus Mr. Sproat, in his excellent work, Scenes and Studies of Savage Life, frankly admits that in Vancouver Island the trickery and hocus-pocus of Aht sorcery were so repugnant to him that he could not occupy himself with the topic.
The Cyclic story also demonstrates its un-Homeric origin by dragging in "the hocus-pocus of purification" (R.
The minister seemed no longer a symbol of some childish hocus-pocus but an ambassador of God--a stern man, closely in touch with the Mysteries.
The instinct of inferiority demanding, as always, an outlet in the invention of gods, had found a tireless medium for this hocus-pocus in the press.
Poor little people gathered in a room going through a hocus-pocus to convince themselves that there was a heaven where they would live forever after the misfortune of death.
Well, I s'pose it had to be," chuckled Pocus Pete.
Better go a bit slow," advised Pocus Pete, in his drawling tones.
Perkins sent word about that bunch he was speaking of," and he delivered the message left with Pocus Pete.
Looks like he was the very man we want," murmured Pocus Pete.
Very early the next morning Dave Carson and Pocus Pete, astride their favorite horses, and carrying with them a substantial lunch, set off after the strays which had been dimly observed the day before up Forked Branch way.
In a way, yes," said Pocus Pete, who rode up just then.
We sure have one fine day for ridin'," observed Pocus Pete, as he urged his pony up alongside Dave's.
A little laterPocus Pete and one of the cowboys returned, to report that the fence had been repaired.
Wind's blowing her this way," remarked Pocus Pete, who had joined the two.
We're not likely to," said Pocus Pete, significantly.
We can handle the cattle all right now, and I want to talk to Pocus Pete about the round-up.
They rode back slowly, and soon overtook Pocus Pete, who was ambling along on his injured pony.
The hostess was too adroit at that hocus-pocus of the table which often is practiced in cheap boarding-houses.
His holiness made his hocus-pocus with the greatest devotion.
The native of Central Asia, like the wildest child of Arabia, is more easily imposed upon by magic formulas and similar hocus-pocus than by books.
To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.
She But as a leech, her hocus-pocus plays, That well with you her potion may agree.
Dufour gave his best performances in the evening, as he could then show his hocus-pocus to best advantage.
As human bodies they are the same, but their functions separate them and make them totally different, so that the difference cannot by any hocus-pocus of metaphysics or magic be bridged or spanned.
The worship of shibboleths cannot be kept up beyond a point where the majority grow tired of hocus-pocus politics and academical agnosticism.
Salvation is no magical hocus-pocus external to the reach and timbre of a man; it is the loyal union of a man with those values of life which have come within his ken.
For it, salvation will be no magical hocus-pocus external to the reach and timbre of man's personality: it will be his loyal and intelligent union with those values and possibilities of life which have come within his ken.
By Richard Neve" (whose jocular physiognomy, with the exhibition of one of his hocus pocus tricks, graces the title).
But if we don't carry out this hocus-pocus first, she will not credit what comes after.
He had acquired a certain amount of clerical hocus-pocus by having been a novice in a monastery, whence he was kicked out for sacrilege.
As to the gifts of knowledge which the tempter could convey, these were limited to such feats of hocus-pocus as Hermann Boaz or the Wizard of the North could rival.
I remember a regiment staying near here the night after your hocus-pocus at Ruhla.
And this the geometrical hocus-pocus of the vile Jew had foreshadowed when he contrived that the right focus of her orbit should also be the centre of Wallenstein's.
He had laughed scornfully as he rode to Vienna, thinking of the poor figure Pietro Bramante had cut on the roadside among his pots and phials, wondered how Wallenstein could ever have paid the attention to his hocus-pocus that he had.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pocus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
