It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

Editor Scott Haring noted ( referring to the FASA edition ) that " Earthdawn had an original, inventive magic system ( no mean trick given the hundreds of fantasy RPGs that came before ), and a game world that gave you the classic " monsters and dungeons " sort of RPG experience, but made sense doing it.

He then attempted to join the army, but at his induction physical it was discovered that a football injury that he had sustained at Shattuck had left him with a trick knee.

MOS's engineers had learned the trick of fixing their masks after they were made.

In these shows, the illusionists used the magic lantern to trick people into thinking that they had summoned up spirits of revolutionary figures with the lantern mounted on a trolley.

One story goes that Hassan al-Sabah set up a trick to make it appear as if he had decapitated one of his hashashins and the " dead " hashashin's head lay at the foot of his throne.

After the trick was played, Hassan had the man killed and his head placed on a stake to cement the deception.

Between 4 – 13 October 1914, the troops in Lille were able to trick the enemy by convincing them that Lille possessed more artillery than was the case ; in reality, the city had only a single cannon.

When he screened the film, he found that the " stop trick " had caused a truck to turn into a hearse, pedestrians to change direction, and men turn into women.

This brought letters of protest against Robert-Houdin, thinking he was putting his son's health in jeopardy, although the ether had nothing to do with the trick.

A steeple, added sometime after the mission's original construction and secularization, had been demolished following a fire, so Hitchcock added a bell tower using scale models, matte paintings, and trick photography at the Paramount studio in Los Angeles.

When they finally returned to the sea again, they did not recover their old trick of turning ammonia to urea, and they had to evolve salt excreting glands instead.

Five years earlier, she had played a trick on Harvey to gauge his love for her, but it backfired and he left her.

* In France the moment at a restaurant when the waiter presents the bill is still sometimes called le quart d ' heure de Rabelais, in memory of a famous trick Rabelais used to get out of paying a tavern bill when he had no money.

The Senate had a trick up its sleeve, however.

Eumenes had tried to use a similar propaganda trick.

As potential cinemagoers had been associating Cain with hard-boiled crime fiction only, this trick — exploited in advertisements and trailers — in combination with the casting of then Hollywood star Joan Crawford in the title role made sure that the film was going to be a box office hit even before it was released.

However, Vicary later admitted there had never been any such messages and his announcement was itself a marketing trick.

The asura princess Mahishi was burning up with anger at the trick the gods had pulled on her brother, the asura king Mahishasura.

It was a trick ; after the natives had fired their guns, Waldron took them prisoner.

Lestat doesn't bother re-reading the short story ; if he had, he might have anticipated Raglan James ' final trick.

Users could disable all windows except Program and keep selecting " New Line " until over nine empty lines had been entered and thus their program could use 11 lines of code using this trick.

Up the road, or ' down ,' depending on your perspective, a merchant ( who may have been named Andy Morrison ) who had a lazy, or drooping, eyelid ( s ), would laze around his store, selling many of the same items at lower prices, of course.

Cameron, her son Patrick, and her daughter Avril, observed that Climbié had numerous injuries — including a burn on her face and a loose piece of skin hanging from her right eyelid — which Kouao said was self-inflicted.

* Each murder victim had a small, five-pointed red diamond located on the body ( usually behind an eyelid ) when found.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

Montero had set up a strong position, using every bale and box we had in addition to barricades of logs and brush.

Since then, and since the pure grain had gotten him divorced from every decent -- and even indecent -- group from Greenwich Village to the Embarcadero, he had become a sucker-rolling freight-jumper.

At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

Every path from back door to barn was covered by a grape-arbor, and every yard had its fruit trees.

he tossed a paper toward every front door, and housewives came down to their steps to pick them up and read what their neighbors had been doing.

The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

For every rude word of Mr. Banks's the family had five in apology.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

It was `` the creation of a monstrous historical period wherein it thought it had to synthesize literature and politics and avant-garde art of every kind with its writers crazily trying to outdo each other in Spenglerian inclusiveness.

-- No doubt there have been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even panic.

The doctors had suggested Scotty remain most of every afternoon in bed until he was stronger.

Uncle Randolph had been riding out every evening on some secret business of his own.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

he rose at half-past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday's Herald Tribune and yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette, then put on his high-topped farmer's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.