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It was evidently the work of an age far remote from our own, scored over with half-obliterated characters in some Eastern tongue, perhaps no longer extant. I found that it was hollow within. A more accurate observation showed, in the centre of this hollow, an exceedingly fine thread-like wire, the unattached end of which would slightly touch the palm when the wand was taken into the hand.
Use the wand to invoke Intelligences higher than mine." "And how?" "I will tell you not. Of yourself you may learn, if you guide the wand by your own pride of will and desire; but in the hands of him who has learned not the art, the wand has its dangers. Again I say you have summoned me! Wherefore?" "Lying shade, I summoned thee not."
The ways of her life were not yet wholly decreed. "Unless the great magician comes and waves his wand," she declared. "The magic may fall upon my eyes, you know, and I may see new things." I touched her hand for a moment. The dog's face was wrinkled like a monkey's, he growled, and his narrow red tongue shot out threateningly. "It is that," I murmured, "which I shall pray for!"
For did the king's sceptre send the sea retrograde, or the wand of the sorcerer avail to turn the sun from its old course? And what man or what number of men ever stayed that inexorable process by which the cities of this world grow, are very strong, fail, and grow again?
With her wand the Fairy broke the bands that held them, tenderly bound up their broken wings, and healed their wounds; while they lay in the warm light, and feebly hummed their thanks to their kind deliverer.
And the princess answered, 'You never let me leave the house at least you might grant me this request' So the king granted it, and the princess went back to her nurse, taking the barrow and the bear's skin with her. As soon as the witch saw them, she touched them with her magic wand, and in a moment the barrow began to move about in all directions.
Although the queen had lost her fairy wand in Zog's domed chamber, she had still enough magic power to carry them all across the ocean in wonderfully quick time, and before Trot and Cap'n Bill were aware of the distance they had come, the mermaids paused while Princess Clia said: "Now we must go a little deeper, for here is the Giant's Cave and the entrance to it is near the bottom of the sea."
Is there really nothing that you wish, for you shall certainly have it if there is?" "There was nothing, dear fairy, before I saw you," answered the little girl, in a hesitating tone. "But now there is?" asked the fairy. "Tell it me, then, and you shall have it." "I wish for that pretty little sceptre of yours," said Hulda, pointing to the fairy's wand.
Bertram had broken his heart in the effort to leave the mansion of his forefathers, there poured forth a torrent of sympathy like the waters from the rock when stricken by the wand of the prophet.
Sylvia went more slowly, looking back once or twice at the picture made by the two women, so dramatically contrasted her mother, active, very upright, wrapped in a crumpled and stained apron, her dark hair bound closely about her round head, her moist, red face and steady eyes turned attentively upon the radiant creature beside her, cool and detached, leaning willow-like on the slender wand of the gold-colored parasol.
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