Affronts*

Usage examples of sleights.

Yet he made the same deduction as had Fafhrd, and hot tears of joy were squeezed from his chilled eye sockets as he realized that whatever impossible-seeming sleights of ink and voice had been worked this night, his friend was sane and true.

People who had never done an hour's concentrated work in their lives loved to read how the young Magnus would rehearse his card and coin sleights for fourteen hours at a stretch, until his body was drenched in nervous sweat, and he could take no nourishment but a huge glass of cream laced with brandy.

He reached into his pocket, pulled out his cards, and, running through sleights, told Skon everything that happened after they had separated.

I even have an ally or two back there, and some old sleights and confidences to bargain with.

Inside the bag are devices designed to deceive: sleights of hand, least likely suspects, and apparently impossible situations like locked rooms.