jugglery
noun
the art or practice of a juggler, especially sleight of hand.
juggleries
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pluralof jugglery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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True, he managed the trip to Flushing with his ancient extravagance; true, he employed all the juggleries of the law to prevent his surrender at Amsterdam.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley
"I have told you already to be gone," replied Jane, angrily; "you will not get any money from me by your juggleries, you ill-favoured monster."
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
Then he declaimed against magnetism—"a heap of juggleries, whose effects came only from the imagination."
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
She admired his energy; she was dazzled by the juggleries of his mediocre cleverness; she was proud to help him.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
Sunday was impressed upon the natives with all the strictness peculiar to the British Calvinists in their reaction from the ale-feasts, juggleries, and merry-makings of the almost pagan fifteenth century.
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Charlotte Mary Yonge
