The greatest danger in this sort of conflict is that a clever magician may think of a unique attack that can bypass your wards without tripping them.

It added: 'He is a magician, clever and attractive.

I recall in Paris a clever satanic magician in a room full of gaslight.

It had appeared in his fist like the lotus flower suddenly popping into the palm of a clever traveling magician.

'Certainly that old woman's son is a clever magician!'

Nippy Weston, being a clever amateur magician himself, never missed a move.

That is that you shall first bring me back a bronze ring which some clever magician has stolen from me.

There was in those days a demand for stage magic, but London was full of clever magicians and an entry into the circuit was not easy.

Now, a clever magician would find it simple to become friendly with Prince Lír, who is reputed to be a young man of eagerness and curiosity.

A clever magician might be acquainted with all manner of odd potions and powders, poppets and philters, herbs and banes and unguents.