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prestidigitation
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  • With the rapid movements of a prestidigitator, he removed his handkerchief from his pocket and covered his eyes with it.†  (source)
  • My God—how can forgiveness meet such a grotesque—prestidigitation as that!†  (source)
  • So, by virtue of such mental prestidigitation and tergiversation, inspired and animated as it was by his desire for Sondra, his inability to face the facts in connection with Roberta, he achieved the much-coveted privilege of again seeing her, over one week-end at least, and in such a setting as never before in his life had he been privileged to witness.†  (source)
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  • But like every great prestidigitator Sean knew that a hitch was also an opportunity.†  (source)
  • Plates of meat swimming in gravy were handed round by boys in white jackets, and as they flung each plate down with the quick gesture of a prestidigitator the gravy slopped over on to the table-cloth.†  (source)
  • It was quite like the feat of a prestidigitator—for the woman worked so fast that the eye could literally not follow her, and there was only a mist of motion, and tangle after tangle of sausages appearing.†  (source)
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