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"Was effected by the sublime simplicity of barter. At one sweep were swept away all that monstrous credit system which had created an army of accountants and a Court of bankruptcy; all that chaos of single and double-faced entry all that sleight-of-hand abracadabra of signatures all those paper phantoms of capital. The Stock Exchange and other gambling-hells shrivelled up.
"Here is the cloak: when you want to go traveling on it, say 'Abracadabra, dum, dum, dum'; when you want to come back again, say 'Abracadabra, tum tum ti. That's all; good-by." A puff of most pleasant air passing by him, and making him feel for the moment quite strong and well, was all the Prince was conscious of. His most extraordinary godmother was gone.
"God" then becomes a mere word conveying no meaning whatever. Atheism does not deny the existence of a god for the same reason that it does not deny the existence of Abracadabra both terms mean as much, or as little.
Whether it be defined or not, and whether it be called by one name or another, are quite immaterial, if one is concerned only with the nature of the action, whether it be matter or ether, or motion or abracadabra. Once more: suppose we have a series of active machines. The product of the chemical action of the coal is molecular motion, called heat in the furnace.
Still, for all his good-will, by and by, he began to shiver exceedingly; also, he had come away without his dinner, and he grew frightfully hungry. And to add to everything, the sunshiny day changed into rain, and being high up, in the very midst of the clouds, he got soaked through and through in a very few minutes. "Shall I turn back?" meditated he. "Suppose I say 'Abracadabra?"
"And I'm off and I'm alive and I'm free! Ho, Janie! That's simpler than Abracadabra or Open Sesame, isn't it? But it opens doors more magical than ever they swung wide, and something in me bounds through, more swift and eager than any Aladdin. Free! I'm a crazy sort of a beggar, my little love that same thing in me hungers and thirsts and aches for freedom.
The alabaster wall would burst asunder, and the flame of the lamp would burn up the world. 'Where did the lamp come from? asked Calladon. 'It was here before Abracadabra or the world existed, the Master replied, smiling; 'and it will burn for ever. 'Could not I put it out? 'No; but you might wander away from it into the darkness outside, said the Master, in a graver tone.
Holder had mounted on a chair to look close at the stuff by the gaslight; and this was my bogey! We had a delightful custom in nursery days, devised by my mother, that on festival occasions, such as birthdays or at Christmas, our presents were given us in the evening by a fairy called Abracadabra. The first time the fairy appeared, we heard, after tea, in the hall, the hoarse notes of a horn.
At any rate, if he can't write, he has mastered a number of other accomplishments wonderful for one of his age and size. He is one of the best shots and riders in England. He rode his horse Abracadabra, and won the famous Guttlebury steeple-chase. He has lost and won such sums of money as my Lord George himself might be proud of.
Bork fell to work with some scraps of food, cursing the configurations of the planets as his spell refused to work. Then suddenly the scraps became a mass of sour-smelling stuff. Bork made a face as he tasted it, but he ate it in silence. Dave couldn't force himself to put it in his mouth, though he was hungry by then. He considered, and then snapped his fingers. "Abracadabra," he cried.
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