Incantations
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Examples
- As to his religious notions--why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was no effective prohibition of superstitious practices, spirit raising, incantations, prostrations, and supplementary worships. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is no evi dence of a tendency to homeopathy, but mental healing seems to have been called into play by the use of numerous spells and incantations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don't mind about his incantations. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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