But whether by word or by touch, the miracles were wrought with consummate ease; there were none of those artistic flourishes which mere performers use as a blind to cover their sleight of hand.
Hers was a culinary skill, and she delighted with her sleight of hand to effect all sorts of transformations, as, conjuring with her fire, she called forth the pleasures and harmonies of taste.
My karma is not mine as won by me With either easy sleight or hard assay-- The karma thou hast seemed in me to find: That was bestowed, and is from hour to hour With ever fresh bestowal still renewed.
It was the work of the faro-bank man, whosesleight of hand deceived the man that carried the gun.
Then the day of the trickster came--and men laughed at the idea of fair exchange and strove to give an illusive value for a thing of real value--the remorseless sleight of hand which the law could not reach.
Now a conjuror is I think a very pleasant fellow to have among us, if we know that he is a conjuror;--but a conjuror who is believed to do his tricks without sleight of hand is a dangerous man.
Theology can perform strange feats, and to its sleight of words nothing is impossible.
To have seen him playing, as a child would play, with a pack of cards until he stumbled across a new sleight and watched the enjoyment written all over his face, was a proof of his deep interest in his hobby.
Various combinations and permutations of this sleight complete the experiment which is accompanied by a running patter of "Go Bombay" "Go London.
By and by I learned sleight of hand, and fared better.
What recondite connection there was between him and jackstraws I never made out, but I suspected it was the delicate sleight of hand required, and the practice it gave him, which fastened him to that Occidental game.
Well, I believe, she kissed not as she should, Nor used the sleight and[395] cunning which she could.
And when he saw no strength of sleight could move him, To make him love or stay, he nimbly turned 211 Into Love's self, he so extremely burned.
But father, I have no skill or sleight to work with tools.
We got out of that nasty corner by sleight of hand, but not your sleight of hand, pasha.
Wherefore, saith he, let these men talk what they will of the greatness of the love of God as creator, so they sleight and undervalue the love of Christ as mediator.
Sir, this way of wile were good to catch, But I have not the sleight of it.
Oh, those tricks That can't be tricks, those feats by sleight of hand, Clearly no common conjurer's!
We believed him, as not knowing the sleight he had at packing the cards; the soldier swore he would never play again, and so did I.
Four sharpers once plotted against a Shroff, a man of much wealth, and agreed upon a sleight for securing some of his coins.
Then he would put a sleighton them and take of them what he might spend and fare forth to another stead; and he ceased not to do thus for a while of time.
Now have I won to my wish; so do thou trust in me and I will put a sleight on thy husband for setting thee right with him, and thou wilt be subject to me and to him and to my son.
I have arranged a special sleight of hand change for the trick as follows:--You carry a handkerchief in the left breast pocket and the aluminium disc palmed in the left hand.
Application of the Finger Palm] Following is an illustration of the way in which this sleight can be employed with good effect.
This forms what may be termed legitimate sleight of hand, and is to be recommended; but sometimes for the sake of effect it is really necessary to use a duplicate coin, and I will now mention one or two instances.
This is one of the prettiest sleight of hand tricks in existence, and requires very little practice.
The principles ofsleight of hand as described in Chapter II.
This sleight can very well be introduced at the close of the Diminishing Billiard Balls.
For the above trick, in the form described, I am indebted to Mr. Maurice Victor, a most skilful exponent of sleight of hand.
This sleight must be executed with equal facility with both hands.
The sleight is thus executed: The performer takes the ball in his right hand and commences to rub it into his left elbow.
It is a trick of pure sleight of hand, and requires no apparatus or elaborate preparation, for which reason it is to be highly commended to those who delight in digital experiments.
The operator then takes the ball and vanishes it by means of sleight of hand, when, on the tube being raised, it has to all appearance been passed underneath.
For the benefit, however, of those of my readers who have not hitherto made sleight of hand a study, I append a few examples.
The red handkerchief is now vanished by sleight of hand, or can be fired from the magic pistol, and eventually found in the brass tube.
By craft and sleight I snared him when he came, ii.
Whatso is not to be no sleight shall bring to pass, ii.
Then one morning after a holiday she had asked for, and which I had given her without any questions, she came to business more like her old self than I had seen her since the afternoon Master Tom Sleight had appeared upon the scene.
Two days after, at one o'clock precisely, Mr. Tom Sleight walked into the Cafe.
Two hours later Master Tom Sleight got knocked on the head in a street brawl.
An inherent propensity for sleight of hand provided him an easy living at cards; and his deftness and certainty with a six-gun gave him a pleasing security.
Garadi or Garadiga is the name of a class of mendicants in the Telugu country and Mysore who are snake-charmers, practice sleight of hand, and perform various juggling and mountebank tricks.
Naturally, they look out for women and simple people, though the manner of passing off the base coin is clever, being done by sleight of hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
