vanishing trick

I like dogs, but this time my vanishing trick was never more welcome.

And wormholes explain how that vanishing trick could have happened.

So that had been the unthinkable solution to her abrupt vanishing trick.

My newly learned vanishing trick might come in handy, but I'd have to wait awhile on that one and get used to the idea.

Failing that, I'll talk 'er into doing a vanishing trick for a few weeks.

His hit and run tactics and his vanishing tricks became almost mythical.

Or perhaps al'Thor was doing his vanishing trick.

A sudden cold terror gripped him, that somehow the Americans were going to pull off some magical vanishing trick and avoid him.

"Couldn't your, uh, vanishing trick fool them?"

The audience is allowed to inspect the magician's cabinet from all sides before he steps inside to perform his vanishing trick and the curtain descends.

The image faded into the air, a broad Cheshire Cat grin hovering for a moment before doing a likewise vanishing trick.

'He's performed another of his well-known vanishing tricks.'

"Then the possessed Laymil must have worked this vanishing trick," Lalwani said.

The rural landscape, formerly painted in pointillist detail, becomes a blur, an abstraction - a vanishing trick that may portend things to come.

The Vanishing Trick, Detective Fiction 1.1, December 1948.

"You know, one of the leading theories of how Houdini did that vanishing trick was that he simply had the elephant lie down in the box.

Meanwhile Walcott hasn't scored since August and is doing his usual vanishing trick / wayward crosses tricks on the field.

'It's a vanishing trick.'

Make no mistake, we now talk of fooling them, as though our nocturnal escape was somehow a great vanishing trick in a game of blind man's buff.

Barkas recalled the sacked Jasper Maskelyne, a stage magician who had briefly worked for him, saying he needed his vanishing tricks now.

The A.C. said: "First-class vanishing trick.

A study announces that the beneficial effects of a holiday disappear within two weeks, but I fear the researchers have drastically underestimated the speed of the vanishing trick.

But Miami is a taller team, and, except for the too frequent vanishing trick of Marcus Camby, is scrambling for the ricochets.

'The language of Newton!' he cried, scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks.