Magician

Examples

• Why, you are like a magician, said she. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The burning rivers of oil were a reflection of the golden treasures which flowed into the hands and pockets of thousands as from a perpetual fountain touched by some great magician's wand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No; the great magician who majestically works out the appointed order of the Creator, never reverses his transformations. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He was as intolerant as a priest, though he had no altar; as obscurantist as a magician, though he had no cave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now what would you say if I had discovered a fairy, witch, or magician, who would this very night do all I have named for us? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• There is no one who has not seen a magician put one or more pigeons into the drawer of one of these boxes, and after closing it open it to find that the birds have disappeared. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Of this house the knowing man, the magician, would naturally become the custodian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A Jewish magician might be the subject of equal abhorrence with a Jewish usurer, but he could not be equally despised. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It is the magician's wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mould he pleases. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The world would have a new dreariness for her, as a wilderness that a magician's spells had turned for a little while into a garden. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Perhaps some Arabian-night magician, opened up the place for the day, and shut it up for ever when we came away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Order, comfort, and even health, rose under his influence, as from the touch of a magician's wand. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The early priests were also doctors and magicians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The magicians usually believed more or less in their own magic, the priests in their ceremonies, the chiefs in their right. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Confusedly in response to that demand, bold men, wise men, shrewd and cunning men were arising to become magicians, priests, chiefs, and kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Magic cabinets are much employed by magicians. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they deceive mankind in any way. Plato. The Republic.
• The Jesuits of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries took the place of the magicians of the Middle Ages. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the island of sorcerers or magicians. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The description of the inventions made by such electrical magicians as Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla would fill volumes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• 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. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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