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Miss Dobriner stooped forward, her eyes narrow as slits. "Seventy-five, spot down." Indecision vanished as rags before Abracadabra. "We make it a rule not to sell our samples, but " "That carriage has got to be delivered at my house to-night before ten." "Sir, that can't go out to-night. It's got to be packed special and sent over on a flat-top dray.
And he had reason, for there was about this slim white woman whose eyes were colossal emeralds, and in show equivalently heatless, if not in effect, so much of the baroque that in meditation she appeared some prentice queen of Faery dubious as to her incantations. Now, though, she had it the mislaid abracadabra. "I knew that I had some obstacle in mind Thou shalt not commit adultery.
"Oh!" cried Finette, laying down the distaff, "there are the firebrands falling all over the room." "Don't trouble yourself," said the steward; "I will pick them up." "Lay them carefully on the top of the ashes," returned Finette. "Have you the tongs?" "Yes," said the steward, picking up the crackling coals. "Abracadabra!" cried Finette, rising.
The world was ending, but civilization seemed to have ended already. Beyond it, he came to a rude house, now abandoned. He staggered in gratefully. For a change, he had one piece of good luck. His first attempt at magic produced food. At the sound of the snapping fingers and his hoarse-voiced "abracadabra," a dirty pot of hot and greasy stew came into existence.
Let us be content to accept the result, when it is forced upon us, without inquiring too minutely into the process. Not with impunity can even the Adepts gain and keep the secrets of their evil Abracadabra.
One two three, five six seven, Abracadabra, tum tum ti!" shouted he, jabbering all sorts of nonsense, as it seemed to the children, and playing such antics that they stood and stared in the utmost amazement, and quite forgot the clothes. When they looked round again, the basket was gone. "Seek till you find, seek till you find, Under the biggest gooseberry-bush, exactly to your mind."
But if the progress of the world had been left to the serf and his feudal master, we would still be living after the fashion of the twelfth century, saying "abracadabra" when we tried to stop a tooth-ache, and feeling a deep contempt and hatred for the dentist who offered to help us with his "science," which most likely was of Mohammedan or heathenish origin and therefore both wicked and useless.
Thus, the signature of Francis Floris, a German engraver, who died about the middle of the seventeenth century, reverses the former of the two FFs, placing them back to back, with the down stroke common to both letters; while that of Francis Frederic Frank, in which the same letter is three times repeated, drove the ingenuity of the artist to a still more curious combination the three letters being kept perfectly independent, yet interlaced, or rather overlapped, so that their lines exhibit a figure which has the curious property, like the cabalistic Abracadabra, of presenting the same appearance from whatever point it may be viewed.
An ancient physician named Serenus Sammonicus, used to be quite sure of curing fevers, by means of what he called Abracadabra, which was a sort of inscription to be written on something and worn on the patient's person. It was as follows: ABRACADABRA BRACADABR RACADAB ACADA CAD A.
But in more recent years we have come to realize that, in a world so full of ignorance and mistake, error itself is worthy of study. Our untrue ideas are significant because they influence our lives enormously. They are "facts" to be investigated. One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams.
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