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You 're sprinklin' after hours and I 'm going to report you to police headquarters. There 's no use of kickin', so you 'd better give me your name an' save trouble." "Sir," I cried, "Reuben Baker is not a name to be ashamed of, and if you think that by any of your underhand hocus pocus you can trespass on my premises and prevent my caring for my own property you are grandly mistaken."
A German horse merchant from the City pulled a putrid cat out of the river mud and held it over his head. He shrieked: 'Hic hocus pocus, parodying the 'Hoc corpus meum' of the Mass. The soldiers of the Duke of Norfolk were unable to reach him for the crowd. There were but ten of them, under a captain, set to guard the little postern in the side wall of the garden.
And now I ask the reader, where are the dialectic twists and twirls, the intellectual arabesques, where the confused thought the result of which is the identity of everything, where the dialectic mystery for the faithful, where the dialectic hocus pocus, and the Hegelian intricacies, without which, Marx, according to Herr Duehring, cannot develop his own ideas?
The fact is, that the capital and a piece of the shaft of a pillar of gray granite have been fastened to the roof of the grotto; and "so clumsily is the rest of the hocus pocus contrived, that what is shown for the lower fragment of the same pillar resting upon the earth is not of the same substance, but of Cipolino marble."
Now you may practise an hundred delicious things to please your appetites, & do as many Hocus Pocus tricks more. Now you may outdo Aretin, and all her light Companions, in all their several postures.
Keep a-ridin' for you sure got to be that 'Ridin' Kid from Powder River' this journey and then some." Andy turned the black sombrero round in his hands. "All this here hocus comes of the killin' of a old man that never lifted a finger against nobody and as game a kid as ever raked a hoss with a spur. But one killin' always means more. I ain't no gunman or no killer.
Pretty soon he rares up and walks over to the tree where ole Demijohn sets rockin' up and down and chucklin'. He takes a holt of Demijohn by the shoulder, and he says: 'You darned ole hocus, you, I lost my job, and I'm broke, lopin' around this country with you. "'Forget it! says ole Demijohn. 'Ain't I good comp'ny? "'Mebby you be for some folks, says young John. 'But not for me.
This was an important contribution to our housekeeping, and we poor relations were bound to treat her with a certain respect. However, a very little amused me in those days; and I waited to have my fortune told, as patiently as if I believed in it too! My aunt began her hocus pocus by throwing out all the cards in the pack under seven.
Thereupon Pocus loudly reproached Hocus in the servants' hall, saying that the compact had only stood for things in reason, whereat Hocus took off his coat and offered to "Take him on," and Pocus, thinking better of it, managed for his share to place in the household such relatives as he could, namely, Cohen to whom he was in debt, Bernstein his brother-in-law and all his family of five except little Hugh that blacked the boots for the Priest, and so was already well provided for.
And yet these well-wishings are not always insincere, and they are earnest enough when uttered in Gipsy. Jockey. Tool. Cove or Covey. Hook, Hookey, and Walker, Hocus, Hanky- Panky, and Hocus-Pocus. Shindy. Row. Chivvy. Bunged Eye. Shavers. Clichy. Caliban. A Rum 'un. Pal. Trash. Cadger. Cad. Bosh. Bats. Chee-chee. The Cheese. Chiv Fencer. Cooter. Gorger. Dick. Dook. Tanner. Drum. Gibberish. Ken.
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