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Meanings of legerdemain in English
An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.
Usage of legerdemain in English
1
Who pays, is a fact buried in the arcana of aldermanic legerdemain.
2
The question is thus narrowed to one of pure legerdemain, and the
3
She gazed at them with wide-open eyes, half convinced of some legerdemain.
4
You know I do legerdemain, Frank explained, in his low, sweet voice.
5
Did you call that little exhibition of yours legerdemain, Tim, you sweep?
6
It has never been explained just how Curly accomplished this feat of legerdemain.
7
By such elementary tricks of legerdemain as these are guileless, honest folk deceived.
8
Her officers and crew are engaged in work which is legerdemain to the civilian.
9
The whole art of Mr Mill's essay consists in one simple trick of legerdemain.
10
Life, in short seems tolerable to me only by legerdemain.
11
Mrs. West's tone indicated that by some mysterious legerdemain the burden had been shifted.
12
I can't afford to have my hands scratched, as I do some legerdemain tricks.
13
The one was the lingo, the other the legerdemain.
14
PUNCH.-Atleast you were a promoter of state conjuring and legerdemain tricks on the stage.
15
That had been the instinctive legerdemain of mountain quickness, which even drink had not blunted.
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Likewise, with fitting solemnity, I perpetrated upon them the little I knew of parlor legerdemain.
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