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The Thought That Lingers: Part Seven Karl Constantine FOLKES	Man passes on with sleight of hand his new-found source of knowledge; gleaned from his technology transforming him into...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
WIKI WIKI PEED ON YA Hubbs	Cultural thievery done with sleight of hand Wickedly wickedly did a deed on ya Wiki Wiki, Wiki peed on ya Crooks cook and took...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Palace Concerto William He	A stately and radiant courtyard, Sleight of the artists...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
3 Card Monte Kurt Philip Behm	Slave to the mirror —and sleight of hand (Dreamsleep: May,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Virginal Ezra Pound	As winter's wound with her sleight hand she staunches, Hath of the trees a likeness of the savour: As white their bark, so white...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aberrations Wallace Dean LaBenne	Sleight of hand in magic adroitly can deceive: tricks with smoke and mirrors disguise what to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aix In Provence Robert Browning	Gismond flew at him, used no sleight O' the sword, but open-breasted drove, Cleaving till out the truth he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto II. Matthew Prior	With wonder you approve his sleight, And owe your pleasure to your fright: But like poor Andrew I advance, False mimic of my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Andrew Rykman’s Prayer John Greenleaf Whittier	Not in blind caprice of will, Not in cunning sleight of skill, Not for show of power, was wrought Nature's marvel in Thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Astrophel and Stella: XLI Sir Philip Sidney	daintier judge applies His praise to sleight which from good use doth rise; Some lucky wits impute it but to chance; Others, because...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
COLOURS OF LOVE Francis B. Udo	And accounts of numbing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Come In Robert Frost	Too dark in the woods for a bird By sleight of wing To better its perch for the night, Though it still could...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Count Gismond--Aix in Provence Robert Browning	Gismond flew at him, used no sleight O' the sword, but open-breasted drove, Cleaving till out the truth he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cry of a scribe Okoh Stephen	A breath of Life upon the sleight of my hands, words become...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fable XLII. The Juggler John Gay	'Is this, then, he so famed for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
FOUL PLAY Debbie Middaugh AKA TURBO1904	The republicans, a sleight Hand of foul...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Freak Healer azdi404	beautiful mutilation, wanting sleight hand...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
He's That Rascally Kind Of Yogi Kabir	the juggler's tricks, the magician's sleight-of-hand - Kabir says, saints, he's made it to the King's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hero And Leander. The Sixth Sestiad George Chapman	In warping profit or a traitorous sleight, Hoops round his rotten body with devotes, And pricks his descant face full of false...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - part 03 Torquato Tasso	The massy substance of that idol great, What sleight had she the wardens to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - part 06 Torquato Tasso	What sleight her wrath can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - part 02 Torquato Tasso	XIX At last she spoke, and with a crafty sleight Her secret love disguised in clothes of hate: "Alas, too well," she says, "I know that knight,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - part 01 Torquato Tasso	Thus with fair sleight he laid the knight abord: ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - part 06 Torquato Tasso	Devising by what means, what sleight, what art, Her close departure should be safest wrought, Assembled in her unresolved heart...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Justice Arnett Edgar Lee Masters	Around me like a deck of cards In the hands of a sleight of hand...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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