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Spirit away

verb

Carry off mysteriously; as if by magic. Synonym: spirit off.

Carry away rapidly and secretly, as if mysteriously.

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"Spirit away" Quotes from Famous Books

... he added, "You can send Some one with me to see that I don't spirit away the parcel, ...

— Cast Upon the Breakers • Horatio Alger

... Cohen's agonized description of the man who had sold him the diamond, Colonel Jarras believed he recognized John Buckhurst. But how on earth Buckhurst had obtained access to the jewels, or how he had managed to spirit away the cross from the very centre of the Tuileries, could only be explained through the theory of accomplices among the trusted intimates of the imperial entourage. And if there existed such ...

— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

... and down in the air. He believed that sickness was caused by obsession, or the influence of some evil spirit, and he endeavored, by howlings, jumpings, and rattling of snake-skins, to drive this imaginary spirit away. But he did not begin his incantations here; he looked upon Benjamin with staring eyes, ...

— The Log School-House on the Columbia • Hezekiah Butterworth

... Mr. Goodnow hesitated he added, "You can send Some one with me to see that I don't spirit away the parcel, and ...

— Cast Upon the Breakers • Horatio Alger

... was sorrow in Zion, the heavens were all faded and gray. Jehovah had hid his face from the children of the world, and taken his spirit away. His son, assailed with their wrath, sang beneath the diheftie in the gates ...

— The Secret of the Creation • Howard D. Pollyen