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1. With a backhanded sleight of hand,
2. Her feisty attitude only served to make Ethan’s head cock sideways before he replied with a sleight hint of aggravation:
3. Jacoba pushed the coins to Nem, then held out his hands palm down and fingers spread, then turned them palms up to show he hadn’t used any sleight of hand to sneak any of the coins away
4. Time and space, the world around us, all that we perceive as reality is at best a sleight of hand, a trick, a house of cards
5. If reality is a sleight of hand, a magic trick at best, my father used his cards to get me to safety
6. First, we touched on the concept of God—where I’ll admit that I might have employed a certain sleight of hand (in the holy spirit of the means
7. Robert Dilts' book called Sleight Of Mouth is a great source for understanding the dynamics of how the mind creates meaning, purpose, values, and beliefs
8. With sleight of hands, he
9. Freud's "discovery" of the Oedipus complex was applied to male children and later extended to females with a sleight of hand so clumsy that it
10. she was a magician or adept at sleight of hand
11. club or was a master at sleight of hand, there would have been no
12. With practiced sleight of hand, he drained the phial to mix with the dregs in Marsh’s glass, then moved back to a table and watched
13. It turned out that she beat him not by sleight of hand, but by memorizing the cards
14. Some trick or sleight of hand which could explain something as mysterious as thought reading
15. Undoubtedly they had been cloaked and were shielded via arcane sleight
16. He was a past master of the sleight of hand with accounts and tax people, and an old and ruthless tamer of workers and labor
17. It was a sleight to the wholesome head and shoulders, which, be-suited, graced the book’s back cover
18. He speaks of the 'wiles of the devil,’ as well as of the sleight and legerdemain of his crafty emissaries; of the 'all-deceivableness of unrighteousness’ in the 'working of Satan:’ of his manifold 'devices,’ as well as of his 'fiery darts
19. Should have left it at sleight of hand
20. When the urbane owner of Chester’s stalks in, the accusations escalate, all now directed toward him and his sleight of hand
21. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money! An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!
22. Then, stooping, he jerked the boy to his shoulders with an ease that looked like sleight of hand
23. Many of Stone’s tricks include a “double lift,” a common sleight in which a magician presents two cards as if they are one
24. Like most magical market ideas, this one is based on sleight of hand
25. When he was a kid, he had learned how to pop his shoulder so that it looked deformed, and this little sleight of arm gave him an edge in certain situations
26. ” But before we explain this masterful “sleight of pencil” magic, let’s first understand the illusion of average returns
27. And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man takes off his hat
28. Careful readers (this time one had to read to page 34) were rewarded with a peculiarly hard-to-follow sleight of hand
29. While the financials could have been more specific, a rookie analyst could certainly tell that the business was not what it appeared and that selling assets and investing the proceeds in financial markets was not a great long-term strategy, that nothing was getting fixed with Agee's sleight of hand but the appearance of earnings in the very short run
30. But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand Turk's head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music
