A customer bolted without paying his bill, but left behind a few small tricks.

"We get all our smaller tricks in that way," the shopman remarked.

The children had always moved carefully to curtail Winnie's drinking with small tricks and ways of working.

That is no small trick, even in these days of higher tech and lighter materials.

He added, "It's the smaller tricks that are always the test."

Indeed, given the intensity of partisanship these days, one suspects that small dirty tricks are common.

There is no use in those small tricks.

He loves to play small tricks, and doing unexpected things, people are already used to his craziness.

"We made people smile, and that's no small trick in politics these days."

One small trick of the fates played a part here.