That they should trust to such fables, fancies, and wicked sleightsof the devil, as their good doings, their good thinkings, their civil walking and living with the world.
And this I well remember still, that of all the sleights that Satan used to take this scripture from me, yet he never did so much as put this question, But do you come aright?
He knew, for instance, just what each glance of the man in the linen coat meant, and how he was weighing his antagonists.
He had already gone through the gambler and taken his weapons; he was now obeyed.
Three Amorous Dames reueale the sleights of loue the redines of Nobles to be baited with the amorous hoke, and what desire such infamous strumpets haue to be honored.
Of greater antiquity, but much more easily discovered, are the bride stones close at hand on Sleights Moor.
The road follows close beside the winding river, and all the way to Sleights there are lovely glimpses of the shimmering waters, reflecting the overhanging masses of foliage.
We will go up the steep road to the top of Sleights Moor.
The rolling masses ofSleights Moor rise up steeply towards the east, and from the coach-road to Whitby that we deserted at the Saltersgate Inn there is an enormous panorama over Eskdale, Whitby, and the sea.
However, from the road towards Sleights the huge building looks picturesque enough, with the river flowing smoothly over the broad dam fringed by the delicate faded greens and browns of the trees.
The road follows close beside the winding river and all the way to Sleightsthere are lovely glimpses of the shimmering waters, reflecting the overhanging masses of foliage.
For Starkad covered his blade with a very fine skin, that it might not met the eye of the sorcerer; and neither the power of his sleights nor his great strength were any help to Wisin, for he had to yield to Starkad.
I have touched on these things lest, when I relate of sleights and marvels, I be checked by the disbelief of the reader.
Think they theirsleights are not already perceived, and that they can walk now unespied, as though they had Gyges' ring, to go invisibly by, upon their finger?
Plainly laying open those pernitious sleights that hath brought many ignorant men to confusion.
Ziito was for some time engaged in quietly observing the tricks and sleights that were exhibited.
Such is the delight we have in trifling with and tantalising the feelings of others by the exquisite refinements, the studied sleights of love or friendship!
Roger Kirkpatrick was a rare fellow, of the driest humour, and the nicest tact, of infinite sleights and evasions, of a picked phraseology, and the very soul of mimicry.
Then having felt the crafty sleights of Fortune's fickle train, Is forc'd to seek by virtue's aid to be relieved again.
Then it would be well to consult the invaluable series of volumes on modern magic by "Professor Hoffman" wherein the various tricks and sleights and apparatus are described and illustrated.
It is as important as, and, next to the pass, more used than, the othersleights with cards, there being a continual demand for its assistance.
The simplest plan, if one has a stage assistant, is that described under the heading "Sleights for General Use.
This he produces in any way he pleases, taking it from the wand being the most effective method (see "Sleights for General Use").
In order to save endless repetition, I give here a few sleights which the learner should be incessantly practising, just as he would the pass or the palm.
But I ought to say something regarding the best method for learning new tricks or sleights from the foregoing text.
The other sleights which I have found most necessary are as follows: To Produce an Egg, Orange, &c.
Abd-hoo, you are a stout fellow, though you have yet some sleights to learn in wrestling.
For if many dead persons had retourned backe again into this life, the wicked spirit the diuell would easily haue deuised many sleights and wiles, and brought in much deceit into the life of man.
CANTO XII Faire Vna to the Redcrosse knight 2 betrouthed is with ioy: Though false Duessa it to barre 4 her false sleights doe imploy.
Canto xii Faire Vna to the Redcrosse knight betrouthed is with ioy: Though false Duessa it to barre her false sleights doe imploy.
Fair Una to the Redcross Knight 2 betrothed is with joy: 3 Though false Duessa, it to bar, bar > debar, prevent 4 her false sleights does employ.
But let none of these poor shifts or sleights deceive you.
They added to their musical performances mimicry and other means of promoting mirth, as well as dancing and tumbling, with sleights of hand, and a variety of deceptions to amuse the company.
All the tricks of painting and sleights of virtuosity were despised, special emphasis being scarcely laid upon pictorial unity of effect.
Their pictures are works of art, while those of the disciples of Fortuny are sleights of artifice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
