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Definition of Sleights
1. sleight [n] - See also: sleight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleights
Literary usage of Sleights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"... Ovid de Arte amandi, and all books that might teach him any sleights of love;
but, for all their principles, his own wit served him for the best shift, ..."
2. Shakespeare Illustrated by the Lex Scripta by William Lowes Rushton (1870)
"... and afterwards, referring to the same ' subtel sleights and untruths,' speaks
of them as deceivable things. Ros. My lord, you once did love me. Ham. ..."
3. The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis by Richard Hakluyt, Charles Raymond Beazley, Willem van Ruysbroeck (1903)
"... all men whom they are able, by their sleights. Whatsoeuer mischiefe they entend
to practise against a man, they keepe it wonderfully secrete, ..."
4. New Era Card Tricks by August Roterberg (1897)
"NEW THOUGHT CARD sleights. DESCRIBING the following entirely new methods of
discovering the name of a card, that a spectator has secretly thought of, ..."
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