"Prestidigitator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... liquid you desire from his bottle; presto, here is Ibsen, or Dumas, or Hauptmann, or Sardou; comedy, satire, tragedy, farce, or the marionettes of the fashionable world! Frank Wedekind is less of the stage prestidigitator and more sincere. We must, perforce, listen to his creatures as they parade their agony before us, and we admire his clever rogues—the never-to-be-forgotten Marquis of Keith heads the list—and smile at their rough ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker
... he had really carried fire in his hands. The quickness with which he pinched out the candle flame, and also smothered the taper after he had used it, prevented him from being burned in the slightest. But it is best for a boy unpracticed and without the dexterity of a professional prestidigitator not to ...
— Joe Strong The Boy Fire-Eater - The Most Dangerous Performance on Record • Vance Barnum
... minutes after ten the advance guard came from the Opera House—laughing. The World's Greatest Prestidigitator had dropped the egg which he intended taking from the ear of Governor Sudds where it had broken into the ample lap of Mrs. Vernon Wentz of the White Hand Laundry. The cold, however, promptly put a quietus upon their ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... prestidigitation, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, conjury. Associated Words: prestidigitator, juggler, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... prestidigitator in a popular dime-museum," I suggested, willing to help her out, "and ...
— Hearts and Masks • Harold MacGrath |
