"Magical power" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... midst of this bustle the school-master stands, And, lo! he's a crayon in each of his hands; And the chalk in his hand has a magical power: A teacher might reason and talk by the hour, But naught would avail all his reason and talk— The truth is made plain by the use ...
— 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading • B. A. Hathaway
... Dumanau, we are told, marries his cousin [18], while we frequently meet with such statements as, "We are relatives and it is good for us to be married", or "They saw that they were related and that both possessed magical power, so they were married (p. 35)". It appears that a man may live with his sweetheart and have children by her, yet leave her, and, without reproach, marry another better fitted to be his wife (p. 54). He may also accept payment for a wife who has deserted him, apparently ...
— Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore • Fay-Cooper Cole
... a moment later, riding the still vigorous Saw-Horse; and having unwound a slender golden thread from her girdle the Sorceress threw it over the head of the panting and helpless Griffin, and so destroyed the magical power of Mombi's transformation. ...
— The Marvelous Land of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... making a higher seigniorage charge or by coining on his own account, debased the quality or reduced the weight of the money of his realm. For a time the new coins, having the same monetary use, circulated at par with the old coins. The ruler, pleased with this almost magical power of getting a revenue with little trouble, continued to issue coins until suddenly the heavier coins began to be exported or melted, and the value of the other money fell, to the mystification alike of the prince and of his people. The reason is now perfectly plain: the ...
— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter
... in the original is to the seemingly magical power possessed by a Jew conjuror, named Philadelphia, which would not be understood ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... too great for the Guard of the Name? Aie! Aie! Hath the Bearer, too, fumbled the weight of the World? Aie! Aie! Is His spirit bewitched by the soul of a girl? Aie! Aie! Hath His magical power been slain by the sin? Aie! Aie! Hath a prophet made words in the act of a goat? Aie! Aie! Does a saviour in hairs thirst the blood of a King? Aie! Aie! Shall we hearken, O Chiefs, to the wish of the One? Aie! Aie! Or be shrivelled and die in the drought of His wrath? ...
— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle
... for an instant what you discovered to me. Yes, you are the Margaret who reared me, who cared for me and tended me; I knew it all the time, but some evil spirit bewildered my thoughts. I have seen her; it is she—it is she. Did I not tell you there was some mysterious magical power dwelling in me, which exercised an uncontrollable supremacy over me? It has emerged from its obscurity dazzling with light, to effect my destruction through nameless joy. I now know all—everything. Was not my foster-father Bertuccio Nenolo, and did he not bring me up ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... book may have suffered alterations, both in form and in language: but any later author, personating Solomon, would surely have put into his month very different words from those of Ecclesiastes. Solomon was the ideal hero-king of the later Jews. Stories of his superhuman wealth, of magical power, of a fabulous extent of dominion, grew up about his name. He who was said to control, by means of his wondrous seal, the genii of earth and air, would scarcely have been represented as a disappointed and broken-hearted ...
— The Water of Life and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley
... laity, nor perhaps on the clergy either. Some of the more ingenious of the priests are already beginning to trace an affinity between Soma and the moon. The yellow soma-stalks swell in the water of the pressing-vat, as the yellow moon waxes in the sky; the soma has a magical power of stimulation, and the moon sends forth a mystic liquid influence over the vegetation of the earth, and especially over magic plants; the soma is an ambrosia drunk by gods and heroes to inspire them to mighty deeds, ...
— Hindu Gods And Heroes - Studies in the History of the Religion of India • Lionel D. Barnett
... first kindles. It was in watching her as she emerged like this, in being near and not too near, that one got, for a moment, so much that one had lost; among other legendary things the legendary theme of the absolutely magical power of ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather |
