Anyone who was supposed to have been turned into a wolf by means of magic spells or herbs was called versipellis ("turnskin") by the Romans.
There were cockatrices and lions and manticores -- beasts, which (the Queen hoped) might be made to tear Elizabeth to pieces through the means of magic and embroidery.
Say any means of magic words.
She have a pet named Hato who can transform into a club by means of magic.
By means of movie magic, we see the baby float up and down, up and down, in midair.
He was, Mr. Krakauer wrote, "attempting to divine the location of buried treasure by means of black magic and crystal gazing".
Martina has a plan to bring Marcello and her mistress together by means of a magic potion brewed in the mountains by an old witch, Morgana, the Duke's half sister, banished there many years before.
Then a little kid, by means of a magic ticket, gets sucked bodily into a Slater action film — in any case, it's intended both as an action film and as a spoof of action films and, perhaps inevitably, fails as both.
Bestselling young adult novelist Rainbow Rowell's new story is for grown-ups: A TV writer tries to fix her troubled marriage by means of a magic phone that allows her to speak to her husband — in the past.
Weber's word for disenchantment, Entzauberung, actually means "the elimination of magic," but it is a mistake to infer the loss of meaning from the loss of magic.
"I think Sinn Féin's preference was for it to be resolved and dealt with by some means of a political magic wand, secretly if need be," Lord Mandelson said.
