Rope Trick

Performer Duane Laursen of the Western rope-trick group Broken Horn Ropers noted that although Christmas is nearly month away, the holiday spirit has come to Hollywood. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The gastric requirements of Germany's mighty Wermacht must take precedence over these anachronistic rope-trick artists and their quaint amusements in order that the outrageous British occupation of Gibralter shall be brought to swift and utter termination!! ❋ Unknown (2007)

In the same way Colonel Barnard had never met an eye-witness of the rope-trick, but his policemen had received orders to report to him the arrival in Calcutta of any juggler professing to do it. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)

We have all heard of the Indian "rope-trick," but none of us have met a person who actually saw it with his own eyes: the story never reaches us at first-hand, but always at second - or third-hand, exactly like the accounts one heard from credulous people in 1914 of the passage of the 75,000 Russian soldiers through England. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)

Then he had a rope-trick or two contrived by means of a long piece of knotted together clothes-line, doubled, and hung from the rafters to form a swing or trapeze. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"rope-trick" of the Hindoo magician to perfection. ❋ Hanford Lennox Gordon (1878)

Carl: Dude, lets go [narb] on some cars by doin' [the invisible] [rope] trick. Carl Jr: Hell yeah! ❋ Bulbach0d3 (2010)

You could say he pulled a... 'cartoon [coin] [rope] [thingy] trick' card to take the phone back! ❋ CheeseWizzler (2023)