hocus and pocus

Example Sentences

• "“I’ve got an idea if we go up the mountain and pick some of the Hocus and Pocus plant which cures toothache instantly, we might give it to our little friends to take him, and the chances are he would be so pleased at having his pain cured that he would do anything for them.”[…]and then Sapphire said that they must look carefully amongst the grass, for it was in that field that the Hocus and Pocus plant grew; and sure enough, they had hardly walked a quarter of the way across when Mince Pie and Barley Sugar called out that they had found a beautiful plant of it."
• "I guess Sunday night taught us that religions and footballs have their hocuses and pocuses, too."
• "Engineer Bill Maylone lists the microphones he used—Schoeps MK21, Neumann KM 140, and AKG C414—keeping alive the nearly forgotten custom of giving the listener an insight into one area of the recording art that is still immune from all the hocus and pocus of digitization."
• "Says she, “My dear Cindy, you shan’t at home stop / While they sport their toes at a twopenny hop; / You shall have coach and horses, and shut up the shop, / And wed perhaps to a very fine fellow.” / So she hocussed and pocussed the coach and the pair, / The footman, the coachman, and all else were there, / With a bran span new barber to curl up her hair— / A regular swell Cinderella."
• "Thebaic tincture gtts. vi / Gum ammoniacum O / Sig: One scruple q 4 hours // The beautiful thing about that prescription was that it was harmless. Many wrote prescriptions like that only for show, just Hocusing and Pocusing."
• "Your attention is presently focused / On a grasshopping red-legged locust. / If threatened or chased, / He will vanish post haste, / Just as if he had hocused and pocused."