What is "tricks"

Usage examples of "tricks".

An illusionists act should tell a story, all the tricks linked together, one leading to the next with one or more of the earlier tricks returning at the end to give the audience that delightful one-two punch that left them, she hoped, breathless.

Kara captivated the audience with a series of illusions and sleight-of-hand tricks based on a few of the poems in the book.

Jesus being a magician and using his tricks to make the Romans and heathens disappear.

To all appearances it was one of those instructional books of card tricks, sleight of hand, illusions involving silk scarves, and so on.

The next numbers are a list of the actual tricks he did, and again he had about a dozen notebooks in his study with descriptions of all the tricks he could do.

I have a few of the notebooks still here, and you could probably look up some of the tricks he did in Stoke Newington.

In particular, I learnt and tried to master all the known tricks of playing-card manipulation.

My card tricks had amused her, and she teasingly challenged me to perform some more for her alone, so that she might see how I did them.

This is partly to create a closed, intimate atmosphere for the card tricks, but mainly so that behind them Thomas may set up the apparatus for The New Transported Man.

I know that memory can play tricks, especially at night, on a shocked and terrified child, and I know that people patch together memories from what they think happened, or what they wish had happened, or what other people later tell them had happened.

I know that the art of magic has progressed since the end of the last century, and that what were then popular tricks have long since gone out of fashion, replaced by more modern illusions.

Then he did some tricks with playing cards, making us choose cards which he was able to guess.

I had an idea, and I got Grierson to drive into Sheffield for me and buy all the magic tricks he could find, and to see if there were any books that told you how to do it.

Suffice to say that I believe I have now attained performance standard, and although I have not yet put this to full test, I have often practised new tricks on the fellows at school.

I cannot be bothered to go back in memory and summarize all the various tricks, forces, moves I learnt and practised in those days.