hocus-pocus

I sat down at the supper table last night at Riddle's, and I looked at Rosy, and I says to myself, 'Chunk, if you get the girl get her on the square--don't try any hocus-pocus with a thoroughbred like her.' And I keeps the paper you give me in my pocket.

Third, that Penelope had heard them rehearsing their hocus-pocus, like actors rehearsing a play.

You go against rottenness, and there is nothing more thoroughly rotten than making people believe that society can be cured by a political hocus-pocus."

The card is some hocus-pocus,--a blind, as like as not.

What sort of hocus-pocus you bring it about by, I don't pretend to know; but you always end in making me take his part, as if I was his father instead of you.

And I lean the more to this opinion from finding that even the historian of those exploits, with all his partiality for his hero, is fain to admit that the slaughtered monsters in question were of a very innocent and simple turn; extremely guileless and ready of belief; lending a credulous ear to the most improbable tales; suffering themselves to be easily entrapped into pits; and even (as in the case of the Welsh Giant) with an excess of the hospitable politeness of a landlord, ripping themselves open, rather than hint at the possibility of their guests being versed in the vagabond arts of sleight-of-hand and hocus-pocus.

'Stop the hocus-pocus. Many sick Filipinos are hoping to get assistance from PhilHealth,' Duque said.

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He knows the hocus-pocus that happens in government biddings,' Roque said in a press conference on the sidelines of the Dinagyang Festival here on Sunday.

Fed up with the "hocus-pocus" and other corrupt practices in government projects, President Rodrigo Duterte is exploring an alternative method of procurement, MalacaA~ang said Sunday.

It's a good thing Cinderella has her Ferry Godmother and a few crustacean companions to offer up some laughs, spice, and hocus-pocus! With lively illustrations by Herb Leonhard and witty dialogue by playwrights Bob Bruce and David Cuthbert, this Southern reimagining will have you reading and re-reading long after the clock strikes twelve!