conjurer

A soldier is not a conjurer that he should be handed over a fully laden ship and told to ferret out a fuse key.

When lawyers get a case into their hands, no living conjurer can divine when their clients will get it out again.

Then he would show the dent in his cheek, and pass his helmet round for all to see, as a conjurer does.

But no; the conjurer swore freely—‘Be gone—be gone about your business; go and look for your horse.’