1 Why," said he, "a magician could call up a lot of genies, and they would hash you up like nothing before you could say Jack Robinson.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER III. 2 Well pleased the little magician hastened away to prove the powers of the spectacles in the theatre; no place seeming to him more fitted for such a trial.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenGet Context In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 3 He is the magician who needs but to wink when passing a fishmonger's or a wine merchant's.
Dead Souls By Nikolai GogolGet Context In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 4 And all the while, like a hidden magician, Chichikov's lawyer imparted driving power to that machine which caught up a man into its mechanism before he could even look round.
Dead Souls By Nikolai GogolGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER IV 5 Perhaps some Arabian-night magician, opened up the place for the day, and shut it up for ever when we came away.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL 6 As if a magician's wand had touched him, the garland of roses transformed him into a vision of Oriental beauty.
7 A Jewish magician might be the subject of equal abhorrence with a Jewish usurer, but he could not be equally despised.
8 Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the island of sorcerers or magicians.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER VII. 9 It is about one third as large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful: it is governed by the head of a certain tribe, who are all magicians.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER VII. 10 I said, all right; then the thing for us to do was to go for the magicians.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER III. 11 They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they transform them into oysters and swallow them.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH