| After assuring himself that the coast was clear Sube drew back his sleeves in imitation of a prestidigitator. |
| The more convincing the painting, the greater the paradox that it was but a reflection or shadow, and the more the painter looked like a prestidigitator. |
| At all these performances there are always amongst the spectators persons in league with the prestidigitator. |
| That is one of the various unserious questions we often ask ourselves when we stare into some of the paintings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, that weightless prestidigitator of 18th-century Venetian art. |
| As when a prestidigitator plucks a coin from someone's ear, two knives simply appeared in Karl's paws. |
| There appears to be no affinity between the prestidigitator and the theatrical manager, yet they both make passes. |
