There is the chorus girl style of leg, the expression of piquancy, which does not perhaps appeal to the noblest emotions, but the fascination of which has always haunted man whenever he has delineated anything in a stocking.
What you 'spose it is about him gives him hisfascination in flashing eyes haughty to the rest of the masculine world--his bright buttons, or what?
There is a sort of subtle fascination about prowling around forbidden territory.
There seemed to be some peculiar fascination about the picture that held their attention.
But there is fascination in its old dimness, in its silence and desertion.
All about you--you have not yet reached Phalerum--you see country that looks like the beginning of a desert, that holds a fascination of the desert.
I can never see the fascinationof being a replica of a hundred other women, when one might be a woman by oneself.
There are moods when I dream of Ralph and feel a fascination for Peter; moods when I have a secret hankering for Guy; moods again when he could not possibly be any one but Jack.
By a very natural psychological paradox, there seems to be a fascinationabout commerce and finance for many young people who have little aptitude for these vocations.
Indeed, the career of Cæsar was destined to exert a singularfascination over the Napoleonic dynasty, not only on its founder, but also on Napoleon III.
Though often unfair to Napoleon, whose egotism the slighted devotee often magnifies into colossal proportions, the writer unconsciously bears witness to the wondrous fascination that held the little Court in awe.
Even before he leaves St. Helena the old fascination is upon him once more; and then Napoleon seeks to utilize his devotion for the purpose of a political mission.
Because of the veryfascination which exists, although you can't understand it.
I cannot see where all this wonderful fascination comes in.
Every movement was a charm, and he watched her, as she spoke, with growing fascination and delight.
In British art this curious fascination exerted by the amateur is always confronting us.
The characters, although drawn from real life, are surrounded by an atmosphere of romance and adventure which gives them the added fascination of being creatures of fiction, and yet there is no straining for effect.
My heart sank within me as I saw these ominous preparations, and yet I was held by the fascination of horror, and I could not take my eyes from the strange spectacle.
I don't know much about the world and women and social life and that sort of thing, and such an incident has the fascination of the unknown for me.
For there is a loveliness or fascination sometimes in women between the ages of sixty and eighty that is unlike any other--a charm that woos us to regard autumn as beautiful as spring.
The repulsive fascination of the loathly serpent or dragon for women can hardly be explained on theological grounds.
We may never have considered the attraction for us of the disagreeable, the positive fascination of the uncommonly ugly.
She seemed able, as long as she cared to do it, to exercise as irresistible a fascination over these youthful members of her own sex as over the older masculine undergraduates of the University.
The faint flavor of a foreign accent which, to Sylvia's ear, hung about these words, was the final touch of fascination for her.
The title of king had a great fascination for Cæsar, as it had for Cromwell--a surprising phenomenon in a practical mind like that of Cæsar.
Plutarch expressly says that it was not in peerless beauty that her fascination lay, but in the combination of more than average beauty with many other personal attractions.
There is something perfervid in the fascination of the East.
Possibly part of this fascination may be due to one's own inability to imitate too; be that as it may, no mimic who is at all capable ever bores me, and all fill me with wonder.
His especial fascinationto me is that life finds him always ready for it--not because he is armed by sagacity, but because he is even better armed by folly.
It is obvious that, in whatever shape the play of Hamlet is produced in the theatre, its success must always be primarily due to the overpowering fascination exerted on the audience by the character of the hero.
Mr Granville Barker played the King with great charm and judgment, showed the fascination that a competent rendering of Shakespeare's text exerts, even in the total absence of scenery, over a large audience of suitable temper.
VI Despite the gloomy warnings of the preachers, the new London theatres had for the average Elizabethan all the fascination that a new toy has for a child.
The personal fascination of "so worthy a friend and fellow as was our Shakespeare" bred in all his fellow-workers an affectionate pride in their intimacy.
The fascination of simplicity proved more than a match for nicety of distinction, and both were ranked among materialists.
But no power of beauty or fascination of look could move the stern La Regnie from his judgment.
He recurred again and again to the splendor of her charms and the fascination of her ways.
After this encounter, I was more determined than ever not to go, but an indescribable fascinationimpelled me.
But the public, resolved upon enjoying the fascination of crime sentimentally described, received his strictures coldly.
With strange power of fascination those wondrous eyes were fixed on her.
Grong could not resist the fascinationof a soul's experiences.
With many serviceable substitutes it is not really necessary for women to make quilts now, but the strange fascination about the work holds their interest.
Humble maids, austere nuns, grand dames, and stately queens; all have shared in the fascination of the quilter's art and have contributed to its advancement.
There's a fascination about Lesbia which I don't possess in the very least.
A shudder of cold horror ran through the unfortunate Fifth, the dramatic representatives of which listened with a kind of fascination to their own speeches, tripped off lightly and easily by their Seniors.
I find it quite hopeless to attempt to give you any adequate idea of the beauty and strangeness and the extraordinaryfascination of it all.
When I suggested how much the fascination of the beautiful island had seized hold of me he would say: “No, I cannot feel it for the ground is sodden and every leaf drips with blood.
He wrote to a friend: “The real charm of the Rhine, beyond the fascination that all rivers and riverine scenery have for most people, is that of literary and historical romance.
There one could be quiet and given over to dreams and to the endless fascination of outer nature.
I cannot realise it, and yet I know that I shall never again see the face lighten up when I come near, never again hear the voice whose mysterious fascination was like a spell.
Of all he saw the chief fascination proved to be Eiland Marken, as he wrote to me: We are now in the south Zuyder Zee, with marvellous sky effects, and low lines of land in the distance.
