That is, she made you aware in the manner of a prestidigitator.

A lesser pitcher, or prestidigitator, might have given up the game right there.

My skill as a prestidigitator simply became irrelevant to our feelings about each other.

The talented prestidigitator of drama did not have his sure touch nowadays.

"I'm given to understand you're something of a parlor prestidigitator, my uniformed friend.

With the grace of a prestidigitator the doctor slid the needle into his right arm.

There almost invariably comes a moment during the exercise of my profession when the prestidigitator will seem to pause.

It was as magical as the stage production of a human by a prestidigitator.

During the past week, Junior had undertaken quiet background research on the prestidigitator with a badge.

For one thing, he now knew what a prestidigitator was-little more than a charlatan, really.

He sometimes referred to himself humorously as a "prestidigitator."

He made quick precise movements with his hands, a sure sign of a long-practising prestidigitator.

He had more tricks than a prestidigitator.

'You once called me a prestidigitator, a highly accomplished illusionist.

Like the unseen fingers of a prestidigitator, the wind plucked the riven fragments away.

Mr. Jay is a virtuoso prestidigitator; his assistants are playing cards.

To Donovan's way of thinking, Seurat was a prestidigitator of the highest order.

And this camel-driver was the worst pickpocket, the worst prestidigitator of the three.

For Mr. Jay is more than a first-rate prestidigitator.

Did you ever watch a skilled prestidigitator conjure a rabbit out of his hat and say, "How did he do that?

"I am a prestidigitator, an escapist extraordinaire, and the greatest living exposeur."

He was an accomplished prestidigitator and an intuitive mathematician, two qualities which he put to good use in most of his enterprises.

With that, she pressed a miniature remote in her hand, and, as if at the unseen behest of a prestidigitator, the Oracle came to life.

The plodding ponderous pontification of a professional verbal prestidigitator.

Marvey is also a champion prestidigitator, able to make cards appear out of thin air and disappear again.