The former prescribed the medicine, or used incantation, to provide healing. |
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Any spell with an incantation has the ability to backfire if even one word in the chant is pronounced wrong. |
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But this particular craze has nothing to do with the incantation of spells, or the brewing of noxious potions. |
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Nucharangua shook him off, and quickly chanted the incantation for the cage spell. |
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Its songlike theme on the saxophone, reminiscent of a Red Indian incantation, leads to a towering and glowing climax. |
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Grabbing my arm, she began muttering an incantation that sounded a bit too similar to the one with which I had seen her geld a horse. |
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Consequently, people depended on prayer and incantation, in one form of another, as the only available form of risk management. |
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Yet, behind the irony in the final rhythmic incantation, we read an emptiness that is neither spiritual sustenance nor love. |
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Just as he started the incantation of the escape spell, the door swung open. |
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He was activating the Sepfeer talisman that was inside as he began to chant the incantation for the spell he was about to cast. |
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The song was hypnotic, the words felt like an incantation, a Latin mass for suburbia. |
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Upon reaching the top, Shield once again chanted an incantation and opened the doorway to the outside world. |
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He started chanting the incantation of a dark spell, full of ugly guttural sounds. |
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The story works like a spell or incantation, lulling you with plausible detail into accepting a slightly warped big picture. |
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Such features are very prominent in nursery rhymes and ballads, where frequently pleasure lies in rhythm, incantation, and strangeness of image. |
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For one thing, this is a whiskery, reflexive old incantation of the Right, that long ago lost any very vivid meaning. |
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Evil cannot always be repelled by incantation, by demonstrations, by social analysis or by psychoanalysis. |
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A bearded sorcerer is busy invoking spirits with his incantation, his glazed eyes staring into the distance and all aglow in the dark. |
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By repeated incantation, the Five Conditions have acquired a hieratic authority. |
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Its effect is the same as that of soul-stirring, soul-elevating scriptural incantation or a cascade of melody. |
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The murmur of incantation gurgled into silence, but not before a blazing inferno of heat erupted around him. |
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And with Kyrithin's continued incantation, the light was growing brighter with every passing second. |
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He raised his arms into the air and chanted the incantation for a fireball. |
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Secondly, the incantation of the rule does not automatically extend immunity to directors. |
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Again there is nothing of magic, or casting of spells, or of incantation. |
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Recycling is useful both as incantation and as ingratiation. |
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We find this prelude to be a lustrous demonstration of the nobility of the theme, a theme that appears as an ineffably pure incantation. |
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The sonority reminds us of Stockhausen's Mantra, by the melodic treatment and its ritual incantation. |
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The words social dumping' are hissed like an evil incantation, denoting one more wicked stratagem from Brussels. |
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The foundations are blessed amid secret prayers, a mixture of Koranic verse and local magical incantation. |
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Like an incantation, its voice is joined by another, then another, and finally another, on my street. |
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Occasionally the poetry shades into incantation, with a suggestion, especially towards the end, of sermonising. |
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While agreeing with those conditions, I fear that this may be no more than an incantation. |
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On this day at the edge of time, in this place of all possibilities, begins an inspired incantation to life rediscovered. |
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This is a passionate antidote against despair, a tender incantation against war. |
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And the sister who was being targeted with the incantation of that little serpent was present. |
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If there were witches, who could blight your crops, make you sterile, and turn you into a newt just by an incantation or two, then of course we should hunt them. |
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Learn to listen out for instinct, to separate it from the usual mental chaff, that bit of info, chant, incantation, poem that downloads itself into yer head aint easy. |
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Is rhetoric, as the ancients posed, a form of incantation or magic? |
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Coupled with fowl and cattle sacrifices, the bhagat's ceremonies include repetitive incantation of tantras in a local Dangi dialect and numerous yagnas and religious rites. |
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It is hard to make out exactly what she is saying, but her words act almost like an incantation. |
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The palm of the glove contained a healing incantation burned in gold. |
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Songs of power, of magic, of emotion, of incantation and enchantment. |
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Although they have become shorter, going still means three days of esoteric debate interrupted only by ritual incantation, expensive coffee, and German food. |
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It was believed that, providing the event was assisted by incantation, evil could be washed away, burnt away, or banished by contact with a purification stick, wand or whip. |
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The cause resides certainly in the abstruse terminology, used in unison by publications and service offerings, like a ritual incantation reserved for insiders. |
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The honour of the Crown is always at stake in its dealings with Aboriginal peoples... It is not a mere incantation, but rather a core precept that finds its application in concrete practices. |
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I know that the term has sometimes been abused, as a sort of incantation, but it is precisely political will that led first six, then nine, ten, twelve countries to decide to unite their destiny, with their eyes wide open. |
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Traditionally, a male does the incantation, which calls for the infant to be guided by prayer, but a woman may do the honour if a male is unavailable. |
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They agree, and their bard Amergin recites an incantation known as the Song of Amergin. |
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At others times evil deities or evil spirits are exorcized. Other accessible means for averring misfortune or soliciting blessings include benediction or incantation, charms, and spells. |
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This is not an incantation, but a factual reality reflected in the ideals having underlined your mission at the heart of our cherished institution. |
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In his hands, language became a kind of bebop zaum or lettrist poetry that's as likely to be nonsense as it is to be incantation. |
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Together with Benghazi and Obamacare it will form an incantation chanted by GOP candidates, a short-hand for Obama's incompetence and federal mismanagement. |
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They've been saying it for weeks like a feral incantation. |
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As we gradually bring a scene out of the shadows, sending long rays slanting across a column, touching an outline with color, animating the scene moment by moment until it seems to breathe, our work becomes an incantation. |
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I should like to stress that this is not an ideal calling only for the incantation of set formulas, but a genuine matrix for action which we should initiate immediately, for we also have the duty to act in time. |
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Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation. |
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