Sir Geraint commended his soul to Heaven, for he knew he was to battle with evil dwarfs who lived in the hollow hills, and whose strength was greater than any man's, and whose powers of wizardry were stronger than Merlin's.
Before he could cross himself against the evil powers of wizardry and glamour, the steel-blue eyes of Merlin looked out from the cloud, and the magician's voice spoke to him as if from a great distance.
All the terrors of this spell of wizardry returned.
It was whispered that the King's sleeping visions had so shaped that vast and unmentionable wizardry had been at work.
For the moment, I forgot all wizardry and presages, as I peered around, calling her softly by name.
It is true that you still practise witchcraft, and that you hate and strive against the holy Faith which I preach; but you were brought up to wizardry and have been the priest of another creed, and these things plead for you.
Now the path is clear, the dead have shown it to me, and of wizardry I shall need no more.
Were it not possible to combine in this way the imaginative with the practical, all wizardry and priestcraft would be nothing but the sheer cheating which it often seems to be to superficial observers.
Of course that which attracts the neophyte of wizardry is not the utility of the profession, any more than the youthful poet is allured by the utility of poetry.
Some of the greatest masters of wizardry are dissatisfied with their own colleagues: that eminent shaman Scratching Woman said to Bogoras the traveller, aEurooeThere are many liars in our calling.
We have seen that in South-East Australia the rites of initiation to wizardry by a wizard, without the aid of spirits, cause a candidate to become frenzied or maniacal.
All the wealth of dead ages lies as a hidden treasure-house for him who can with wizardry open these portals and bring back the Northern poesie.
But to any one with a working knowledge of a great factory will come the reflection that the apparent magic is the wizardry of genius, and genius has been defined as the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Not all the glory that was Greece or the grandeur that was Rome could weave such wizardry as those funny, tearful tales of the Story Club.
Conan and his host were a present menace against which Xaltotun's wizardry might well be needed before the play was all played.
You did not even know that your rain-making wizardry had failed.
It took no wizardry to predict that Pallantides would send another man out in your harness.
The kings who reigned before you have religiously obeyed the injunction," they said.
But there's so much wizardry in your management of the business--" "No wizardry at all.
They Escape from the Chapmen by the Carline's Wizardry Chapter LXIV.
As by some wizardry of approaching dreams they seemed in that instant to be related; but before I could analyse the why and the wherefore, both sank away out of sight again, and I was off beyond recall.
The core of the myth or tale is rarely reached; the depths of character are never penetrated; and still the wizardry of wonderland is gone.
Her face shone pink and warm in the glow of the firelight, and as the significance of her words sank in upon him Grant marvelled at that wizardry of the gods which could bring such homage to the foot of man.
There was a softness in her voice which he had not noted in those bygone days; she seemed more resigned and yet more poised; the strange wizardry of suffering had worked new wonders in her soul.
The same year, he was elected governor of Texas, turning a Union minority into a triumphant majority by the wizardry of his personality.
There was wizardry in the music, Dom Manuel said afterward, for he declared that it evoked in him a vision and a restless dreaming that followed after Misery.
In truth the wizardry of this place has eaten into thy brain.
The night watch wore on--even the night side of life seemed hushed in this abode of wizardry and fear.
The base hand of evil wizardry has found me in my sleep, has struck me down in the night, and now I go into the Dark Unknown.
The wizardry which had wrought ill for our arms must be removed.
In the air was a feeling ofwizardry and awe; but I had passed through too many strange things to hold such in fear.
There hadst thou to fall back upon the guile andwizardry which I had filched from my very foes.
Then was she silent a little, and seemed very downcast, and Walter held his peace from grief and confusion and helplessness; for ofwizardry he knew nought.
The extraordinary perspicacity of the police who had nailed and returned the violin instanter, this wizardry that would have thrown any one else into stupors of bewilderment, interested him not at all.
The wizardry with which you mix metaphors is beautiful.
