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Example sentences for "mesmerist"

Lexicographically close words:
mesmeric; mesmerise; mesmerised; mesmeriser; mesmerism; mesmerists; mesmerize; mesmerized; mesmerizer; mesmes
  1. This puzzled me and the first opportunity I got I asked the mesmerist the reason.

  2. All sorts of amusements were provided, and amongst the numerous entertainments was one by a mesmerist and hypnotist, who gave very clever manifestations of his skill.

  3. She now speaks of him as a vulgar mesmerist or magnetic healer whose scribblings she put into grammatical form; she then, in 1866, glorified him as the Christian glorifies only the Saviour.

  4. The mesmerist holds ammonia under his subject's nose, and tells him it is rose-water.

  5. The mesmerist began to get badly frightened, and after one or two more vain attempts he ran out of the house to, as he said, fetch a doctor.

  6. After a while the mesmerist made several passes designed to bring me to.

  7. I was a guest at an hotel there where a professional mesmerist also chanced to be staying.

  8. She owned the impeachment, and was ready to endure gibbet or stake for the truth of her talisman,--more than a mesmerist would for the truth of his passes!

  9. They wanted to pair him off with Colonel Fantomme, who they think is dying: but Mr Tadpole has got a Mesmerist who has done wonders for him, and who has guaranteed that he shall vote.

  10. Copy of a letter from a leading Mesmerist to the compiler, with reference to the power claimed by mesmeric operators over those subjected to their influence.

  11. Grant even that the pretensions of the mesmerist are true, and that it was in obedience to his direct will that Madame R** acted as she did, we are no nearer a solution than before.

  12. That little stout squab man, the most powerful mesmerist in Europe!

  13. We moved a vote of thanks to the Mesmerist for his gratifying exertions, and then retired to our Club to meditate upon the subject over a comfortable board of pandores.

  14. One was designated by the committee, over which the mesmerist made passes, sometimes with light contact.

  15. This was continued for one or two minutes, and when the process was completed the mesmerist was conducted out and to a third room.

  16. After fourteen years she was taken back to the house where he was born, this offspring of the union of the mesmerist Gilbert and the daughter of the House of Taverney, his victim.

  17. The mesmerist tore open the letter, hastily glanced over it, and handed it to the gentleman who stood nearest to him.

  18. The mesmerist took an engraving from a portfolio, and held it behind Ellen's head.

  19. The mesmerist was about to open it, when a sudden idea seemed to strike him.

  20. But all things have an end: and the deceit of the Mesmerist was not an exception to the rule.

  21. The mesmerist held the letter at a short distance from Ellen's countenance, and said, "What is this?

  22. This constitutional infirmity of body and of mind furnishes to the mesmerist a basis for his operations, and is the source of all the wonders which he works.

  23. They prove that the will or spiritual power of the mesmerist has of itself no ascendency or control whatsoever over the body or mind of his victim.

  24. Mesmerist I am not; for mesmerism implies the throwing of the patient into a mesmeric sleep.

  25. Are you a mesmerist or a magnetic healer?

  26. One spirit might use you with success in one direction, and another in some other phase; just as one mesmerist may make a subject clairvoyant when another has previously attempted to do so and failed.

  27. The phenomena of super-sensuous reception due to spirit influence are elicited in much the same way as a mesmerist arouses the clairvoyant powers of his subject.

  28. If the mesmerist can put you in the trance condition and then hand you over to trustworthy spirits to control you, well and good.

  29. Convinced of his medium's departure in a few minutes, the mesmerist bowed profoundly but with majestic dignity to his two frightened visitors, absorbed in the flood of thoughts tumultuously overwhelming them.

  30. The mesmerist had galloped on the barb through Versailles in a few seconds and a league on the road to Paris when an idea came as comfort in the midst of his misery at the fear that all he did would be too late.

  31. With her eyes closed, her bosom heaving, Lorenza recited the following words which the mesmerist wrote down by this wonderful dictation.

  32. He smiled like an evil genius when he saw the mesmerist beside Lorenza, still asleep.

  33. The mesmerist had reasoned correctly: as rapid as Dejerrid the steed might be, it was not as swift as the will, and that alone could outstrip Lorenza escaped from her prison-house.

  34. The Mesmerist led his sceptic, with some precaution, up a dingy staircase to the fourth floor.

  35. The persecuted mesmerist was at last enabled to witness the startling phenomena of a science he had long treasured in his heart.

  36. Not naturally; but a deaf person can hear the mesmerist when in the sleep; not anybody else, however.

  37. The diabolic origin of mesmerism was discussed by pulpit and press; a pamphlet, entitled "Dialogue between a Mesmerist and a Christian," maintained that the two faiths were incompatible.

  38. Do the minds of the mesmerist and the patient become one?

  39. Come on and let's see what your mesmerist frauds have to say.

  40. A biological mesmerist assures us that he finds no difficulty in raising beds, chairs, and tables; and in the case of Mr. Kellogg it is shown that such things are easily done without any aid from spirits.

  41. It was doubly satisfactory, then, that the good faith of subject and mesmerist could be conclusively proved.

  42. At the séances, to which I invited my friends and a few scientific outsiders, I always courted the fullest investigation, taking it as the first duty of the mesmerist to show cause why he should not be put down as a charlatan.

  43. I have no doubt that he has some new mesmerist or clairvoyant or medium or trickster of some sort whom he is going to exhibit to us, for even his entertainments bear upon his hobby.

  44. First of all," I asked, "would you tell me whether you have collected any cases where the mesmerist has gained a command over the subject and has used it for evil purposes?

  45. With every mark of the profoundest astonishment, the mesmerist stepped back, and took the described ring, in its case, out of his pocket.

  46. The mesmerist told us that, in this highest grade, the subject was a wholly spiritual being, had completely stripped off the body, and was utterly insensible to physical pain.

  47. I tell ye, ye hadn't ought to have sassed that mesmerist feller.

  48. Your mesmerist fellow's runnin' mate--that woman that calls herself Madame Dawn, and reads the past and tells the future.

  49. Here's your mesmerist rushin' hot to Reeves complainin' about you and gettin' a permit from Reeves, along with a few pointers about you for occult use.

  50. I am the greatest mesmerist in the world and he is in my net.

  51. This was the moment when the mesmerist entered the room.

  52. Seated three paces from her, the mesmerist sighed deeply.

  53. The mesmerist retired backward, drew the door to, and went back to his room.

  54. It was the stranger, in the black velvet riding coat, for he had discarded his silken suit, in which a mesmerist cannot well work his power.

  55. As he departed, Andrea turned away from the door and resumed playing, so that the mesmerist heard the air again from where she had been made to leave off.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mesmerist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.