A fringe of softer green' may brighten the pine wood, but as yet the touch of the magician's wand is unheeded.
The mayordomo waved his wand to the attendant packers, and in a moment the cabin was filled with box, bag, and bale, closely piled.
Get off your horse and come in with me, that I may touch your lips with the wand of speech, that we may have a talk together.
The queen waved the wandthree times, and a table laden with all kinds of delicacies appeared upon the floor.
Take a chair," said the fairy, "and I will ring for the wand of speech.
But when she smites thee with her wand draw thou thy sword and make as though thou wouldst slay her; and she will be filled with fear, for none ever resisted her power before.
The Easter-wand hopped about upon its three wooden legs, and stamped quite loud, for it danced the mazurka; and there was not one of the flowers which could dance that dance, because they were so light and could not stamp.
The Slavs must be pressed to the wall" (Man wird die Slaven an die Wand druecken), declared a statesman who participated actively in the plan of reconstruction.
The above remark, "Die Slaven werden an die Wand gedrueckt," is attributed to him.
It consists of a piece of brass tubing made to correspond with the performer's ordinary wand but with square ends.
The performer passes his wand over, under, and all round the handkerchief, thus proving to the satisfaction of the most astute that there are no connections.
With this trick wand you can apparently defy the law of gravity.
It will thus be seen that thewand is of the utmost importance.
In the normal condition, this will remain in the central space, but if the wand is tilted either way, the mercury will flow into the little pocket at the lower end.
The use of the wand is regarded by the uninitiated as a mere affectation on the part of the performer, but such is far from being the case.
Remove your hand from the wand and take hold of the handkerchief.
Vanish the handkerchief from the left hand, and take the one from your collar, immediately placing it in the right hand to mask the presence of the one already there, and lay the wand down on the table.
The use of the wand has been sufficiently explained to the student.
The cover is then replaced and the tumbler commanded to pass into the lower hat, after which it is again raised, together with the counterfeit, and the wand passed through it as before.
Now request two spectators to hold either end of the wand tightly.
It must be an exact imitation of the wooden wand used during the course of the entertainment.
Approaching the individual who holds the handkerchief request him to place it over the middle of your wand which you hold horizontally by its centre, having slid your hand (with the concealed ring) along its smooth surface.
Draw the flower away from the buttonhole and conceal it under the left armpit, and as you touch the spot with the wand raise the left arm slightly, freeing the flower, which will instantly fly to the buttonhole.
One end of the wand has an opening which is stopped up with a piece of butter.
Affect to place the handkerchief in the left hand, really palming it in the right, and take your wand from under the arm in the same hand.
Strabo gave a sufficiently accurate idea of its appearance when he described it as a "peeled wand surmounted by a plume of feathers.
At one end a dignified individual is seated upon a low-backed chair, in his left hand he holds the longwand of office, in his right a ribbon.
Tascela sprang--not toward Conan, but toward the wand where it shimmered like a live thing on the floor.
Then swelled forth a breeze of little voices, so confused that you could not tell one from another; and the queen's wand rose again.
The stations beyond Eiger Wand will be built within the rock, and will be furnished with restaurants and beds.
At the Eiger Wand and Eismeer stations passengers will contemplate the view through windows or balconies from the inside; but at the Jungfraujoch station tourists will be able to go out and take sledges for the great Aletsch Glacier.
The president of the judges, a handsome Corinthian in purple and a golden fillet, swept his ivory wand from right to left.
He sent his last glance down the long files, his ivory wand signed to the musicians in the van.
Then he told me how he had found water by means of the hazel wand on his New Hampshire farm--a real happening.
That genial Prospero had broken his wand of virtuoso and devoted himself to the culture of youthful genius and his own compositions.
If only some gracious spirit of elfin lore might really come at such a time with its magic wand of healing!
The witch with a wand had come to Joyce in the shape of Cousin Kate Ware, and that coming was one of the pictures that Joyce could see now, as she thought about it with her eyes closed.
