Exhibiting the arcane art of invertible counterpoint, they translate well for melodic instruments.

First he learns the secret of the arcane art, then he takes his courage in both hands to tell a traditional story from the stage of a storytelling club.

He was charismatic, funny and possessed an instinctive talent for the arcane art of running spies.

He taught other young orcs the arcane arts and strove to eradicate the orcs' shamanistic traditions.

The championships are an extraordinary exercise in logistics; those in charge must have a forensic grasp of arcane detail and strategy.

Too often he became embroiled in arcane detail about the things he opposed, rather than those he supported.

That doesn't just mean arcane details about the regulation of lawnmower noise.

Perhaps inevitably, many of the questions are direct requests for enlightenment on arcane details relating to nicknames and insignia.

It's packed with arcane details.

His working life was about the beauty of numbers, the passion for accuracy and the deep satisfaction of arcane knowledge.

Every so often, he glanced across the table with a conspiratorial light in his eyes, as though we were sharing some arcane knowledge.

These are all well-wrought poems, drawing witty arguments and analogies from his characteristic fund of what seems to modern readers like arcane knowledge, from logic, alchemy and the new astronomy.

As ever, the arcane knowledge and ability to divine cryptic connections of participants will dazzle slower listeners (me).

With the help of their arcane knowledge, they can protect themselves and their companions from harm, or increase the strength of the entire party.

He liked rugby people, and was comfortable with the arcane laws and the incongruities that sometimes make it unfathomable to those unfamiliar with the game.

More than 1,200 seats at the concert hall are held on 999-year leases by about 320 individuals or businesses under arcane laws.

Matters get stalled as rival departments choose to hide behind arcane laws.

The profession should start with the users of accounts and work backwards from there, not box-tick its own arcane rules.

The game has arcane rules and informal conventions.

Boats are always getting disqualified for sailing on the wrong bit of water or breaching arcane rules.

Allegedly, you could play some sort of competitive game with the cards (it was governed by arcane rules and deathly dull), but their main appeal was commercial.

Some families are trying to hide their savings by transferring money out of their accounts, while others are falling foul of arcane rules when the transfers are legitimate.

Mediate offered a modest dissertation on the arcane subject.

To ordinary people our top universities often seem somewhat elite and mysterious where arcane subjects are explored.

It was total immersion in a world of arcane subjects.

Not, it seems, when it comes to the wonderful and arcane world of accounting standards.

But perhaps the more sinister price movement was in the arcane world of credit default swaps - basically contracts protecting the holder against a company failing.

He has found refuge in the stability of family life and the arcane world of specialist literature.

That would have consequences far beyond the arcane world of corporate bonds.