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.
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 AndersenContext Highlight 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.
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.
5 Perhaps some Arabian-night magician, opened up the place for the day, and shut it up for ever when we came away.
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.
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.
10 I said, all right; then the thing for us to do was to go for the magicians.
11 They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they transform them into oysters and swallow them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH