Pursuing our course through Melville Bay, I felt the fatal magic of it enthralling my very soul.
I strode onward, in that white, blazing air, the joy and beauty of it enthralling my soul.
She was a long time in turning the key, and Jean could watch her face, the more enthralling to the senses for the absence of any tokens of disturbing intellectual effort.
And oh, how sweet, how enthralling is Aphrodite's smile!
One dares not skip a page of this enthralling story.
She admired his gifts, and trembled beneath the power of his dark eyes, his magnetic hands, and especially responded to the music of his deep voice, which was very enthralling when it took on the pleading melody of the lover.
He was roused from this enthralling day-dream by the discovery and confiscation of his story-book by the master in charge, and the subsequent fury of its owner.
Henry ceased his enthralling occupation of trying to push a fly into his ink-well with his nib and answered mechanically: "Two negatives make an affirmative.
The exploits are described in an enthralling vein.
A stupendous effort of imagination, and provides a narrative as enthralling and as realistic as anything Mr. Haggard has written.
The whole tale is a powerful andenthralling one, and cannot fail to enhance the growing reputation of the authoress.
It is a piece that lacks pervasive concentration and enthralling point.
Once more cutting short that enthralling hunt for gold, Johnnie hurried back to the door and opened it--and looked into the beady, bright black eyes of an exceedingly old lady.
A strong and original story, teeming with graphic description, stirring incident, and, above all, with vivid and enthralling human interest.
One of the best imagined and most enthralling stories the author has produced.
The enthralling power of the rhythm produced some magical movement in the soul.
The stories are never merely grim or horrible, but enthralling in their power of imagination and delightful in their picturesque and carefully chosen language.
The enthralling longing and sweetness of this melody doubtless echoed the dearest wish of both hearts; for, if Marion was watching for Richard Cramer, the Minister had an equal fervor of desire for his beautiful Ada.
For in those fair curlèd snares, They are hampered unawares; And compelled to swear a duty To her sweetenthralling beauty.
But his great poem, The Maides Tragedy is a thousand times more enthralling and poetic than Sejanus or Catiline.
Out of tune the instrument whereon so manyenthralling melodies had been played--glad and gay, plaintive or resentful, full of love and full of sorrow.
It was surely a real amelioration of Shakespeare's fate that the difficulties with which he had to struggle were not increased by that enthralling and ravishing evil which bears the name of actress.
Chicago Tribune The Betrayal An enthralling story of treachery of state secrets in high diplomatic circles of England.
It might, perhaps, be necessary to spend another hundred pounds or so; but should the first volume have the sale, to be anticipated for the initial tome of an enthralling narrative, the ridiculously small sum of 250l.
Whilst readers hastened eagerly from the tale of terror to the work of unemotional demonstration, others passed with curiosity from the volumes of the political philosopher to the pages of the enthralling story.
Yet these very people were tennis-mad twenty years ago and had night come to interrupt a game of croquet would have ordered lanterns lighted in order to finish the match so enthralling were its intricacies.
Here the great mass of the people find (and eagerly seize on), the element of romance lacking in their lives, infinitely more enthralling than the doings of any novel's heroine.
They spent quite half an hour at this enthralling pastime, till a very persistent cuckoo in a little copse over the hedge recalled them to the principal object of their ramble.
In the society of such enthralling interests I have no conception of the flight of time.
She been reading an enthralling book and had not seen a paper for some days.
The power which had on the first morning guided Robin to the seclusion behind the clump of shrubs and had provided Andrews with an enthralling companion, extended, the next day, an even more beneficient and complete protection.
When Eve was formed from the rib of Adam the information it was necessary for him to give her regarding her surroundings must have filled her with enthralling interest and a reverence which adored.
