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Billy would say in a deep voice, “Abracadabra!” and, presto, there they all were, Maida, Rosie, Laura, Billy, Arthur and Dicky inside the crystal ball. What people lived there and what things happened to them can not be told here. But after an hour or more, Billy’s deepest voice would boom, “Abracadabra!” again and, presto, there they all were again, back in the cheerful living-room.
These "sound truths of practical Christianity" consist in a total subversion, not only of Christianity, but of all morality; the very words virtue and vice being but lazy synonymes of prudence and miscalculation, and which ought to be expunged from our vocabularies, together with Abraxas and Abracadabra, as charms abused by superstitious or mystic enthusiasts. Ib. p. 94.
There! it's very fanciful, but I'm always feeling the tune in aqua-marina, and trying to find it, but I shouldn't know it was a tune, if I did, I suppose. How magnificent it would be, if every atom of creation sprang up and said its one word of abracadabra, the secret of its existence, and fell silent again. Oh, dear! you'd die, you know; but what a pow-wow!
It was as though a charm, an Abracadabra, had been whispered over Mrs. Sampson and she had been changed immediately into a rabbit. It had never been Mrs. Sampson's fault that she was alarming to the young. She was a good woman, but she was cursed with two sad burdens a desperate shyness and a series, unrelenting, unmitigating, mysterious, desperate, of nervous headaches.
The name of the innermost room was Abra, that of the middle room was Cada, and that of the outermost room was Bra. The whole house, therefore, was called Abracadabra. It was a curious thing about this house, that if you were in Abra, you could see into both Cada and Bra, but, if you were in Cada, you could not see into Abra, and if you were in Bra, you could not see into either Abra or Cada.
The Arabians believed in the magic power of the word Abracadabra to cast a spell. For Eugene the form of a woman's face and body was quite as powerful.
The moth is drawn to the candle as the draught is drawn to the fire, in the absolute spell of the material polarity of fire. And air escapes again, hot and different, from the fire. So is the sun. Fire, we say, is combustion. It is marvelous how science proceeds like witchcraft and alchemy, by means of an abracadabra which has no earthly sense. Pray, what is combustion?
Then when you have enough, you must say, "Little mill, stop grinding, Abracadabra," and it will stop. Good-by, and before Hans could say a word, the old man hurried out of the door and was gone, leaving the queer old mill behind him. "Of course Hans thought he must be crazy." "I should have thought so," said Bessie Mather, who was cuddled in the hay close to Eyebright. "Well, he wasn't!
Our author's habit of omitting references to his opponents has here caused me infinite inconvenience. He speaks of some eccentric person who has averred that a 'fetish' is a 'totem, inhabited by 'an ancestral spirit. To myself it seems that you might as well say 'Abracadabra is gas and gaiters. As no reference was offered, I invented 'a wild surmise' that Mr.
To those who insist on the sovereignty and independence of the national state as an eternal verity, I will make no further reply than to say that such language has for me no more meaning than talk of 'the divine right of kings', 'the natural rights of man', or any other phrase of the abracadabra of metaphysical politics. The actual world in which we live knows no such absolutes.
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