Then Cyric spoke a single arcane phrase, and the skull stirred.

Even as Ulin finished the last arcane phrase and pointed his finger at Frost's head, the White opened its maw, and the sorcerer felt an icy blast of wind and saw ice crystals speeding toward him.

In response, Druzil chuckled, whispered an arcane phrase, and became invisible.

"But I'm not quite sure that requiring them to speak English and use these arcane phrases will have much of an impact," she said.

Then he recited a string of words in a language that neither Drizzt nor Catti-brie had ever heard before, an arcane phrase that ended with the name of Errtu, spoken emphatically.

E'kressa muttered some arcane phrases and waggled his little arms about the curve of the sphere.

That arcane phrase is interpreted literally by Andrea Raphael, who restricts herself to found materials; she buys nothing that goes into her art.

As he watched, helpless, Robyn muttered arcane phrases and the Firbolgs fled, shrieking in terror.

"Kolsen'shea orbb," Jarlaxle whispered, an arcane phrase rarely uttered in Menzoberranzan that roughly translated to "pull the legs off a spider."

This arcane phrase situates us deep in East Anglophilia - and lost.