There is some hocus-pocus about everything you do in the army.

To this end Mephistopheles devises the elaborate hocus-pocus of the Mothers.

Sorry about the hocus-pocus, but there is too much at stake.

Otherwise hocus-pocus alone prospers, and he who does forgive it is not forgiven.

So the padre does some hocus-pocus and commands the demon to haul ass.

There's none of the Corsican Brothers sort of hocus-pocus about us in any way.

Some sort of Freaky Friday, role-reversal hocus-pocus was going on.

A little hypnotic ability, a little hocus-pocus, and they can make people believe anything.

He was expecting her to perform some sort of hocus-pocus.

Third, that Penelope had heard them rehearsing their hocus-pocus, like actors rehearsing a play.

The card is some hocus-pocus,- ablind ,aslike as not.

Oh, I used a little justifiable hocus-pocus about the medicine.

A sort of hocus-pocus... now you are my wife, now you aren't my wife.

A little hocus-pocus to bring in the crowds is one thing, but killing people?

There was no hocus-pocus or flummery; the whole proceeding was as simple as playing dominoes.

In three minutes the hocus-pocus was timed to begin.