Citations:præstiges

English citations of præstiges

Noun: plural form of præstige

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• 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopædia of Antiquities, John Nichols and Son; Volume II of II, Chapter XV, page #666:

  They applied themselves to astrology, divination, magick, and all the præstiges which accompany it.

• 1828, Algernon Herbert quoting Semiramis in Nimrod; Volume II, Chapter II, page #175:

  She published this declaration, “ I have given orders to my gods to lick the wounds of Aræus, and resuscitate him from the dead ;”  and at the same time she really “ did hope to recal Aræus to life by her magical præstiges, so mad wad she with libidinous desire.”