Despite knowing that everything moved ineluctably forward with its tattered past being dragged behind, it was only natural to have moments of being mesmerizedby those shards and fixated with fixing the unfixable.
Of course, sir," explained Bones, "you may think she mesmerized me.
I stoodmesmerized a moment, then dashed toward them, but only in time to watch them vanish into the rain and haze.
She'd begun passing out hard-sugar candies to the mesmerized children, showing them how to remove the cellophane before putting them into their mouths.
I pushed the pace, mesmerized by the snow, and tried to decide what to do next.
As a child I sat for hours under a dim yellow light, mesmerized by images appearing on paper submerged in trays filled with smelly liquid.
If I had indeed mesmerized or hypnotized you, I might perhaps have deserved some reward for the exertion of my purely professional skill, but .
But I am not master of my thoughts to- night, Villiers; my Chaldean friend has perhaps mesmerized me--who knows!
A mesmerized subject is irresponsible for whatever sentiments he may express in a trance.
So far, although I have mesmerized her often for many years, I have refrained from questioning her while entranced, permitting her to talk or not as she felt inclined.
I do not doubt your ability in the slightest degree, but I do not want Augustus nor our baby mesmerized as you do Merle and Alice.
Why do you not want our children mesmerized by their own father, who loves them not one whit less than you do?
She was not willing to experiment with all persons, but would feel perfectly safe to be mesmerized by such an adept in the science as the Professor.
You have mesmerized him so much he is sensitive to your every thought, either spoken or silent, and he cannot help it.
While her strength lasted, she was ever ready to try to relieve others from illness by the means which she believed to have cured herself; and seven mesmerized patients were sometimes asleep at one time in her drawing-room.
When the little thing was mesmerized he laid it down, a heap of ruffled feathers, beside the bowl.
I felt mesmerized by the whole place, by the air of obvious innocence--not innocence merely, but frank honest bewilderment and concern in the three faces.
They were sitting after dinner when Frank quietly mesmerized both father and mother and then asked Ethel to dismiss the servants for the night.
It looked very innocent to bemesmerized last night, didn't it?
That man who mesmerized you is very clever," said the professor quietly, when I had finished.
The truth was, and I felt sure of it as I rode along, I was partly mesmerized or hypnotized, whatever men may please to call it.
Half the young ladies in the room were nearly as much mesmerized as you were.
Many of the company pressed around him and received correct answers to their questions, the Hungarian cheerfully submitting his mesmerized "subject" to cross-examination.
I had heard in Europe of mesmerized somnambules and pretenders to clairvoyance, and having no faith in them, I had, therefore, nothing against the process itself.
Shyness hitherto had been no infirmity of this young Canadian; but Bertie somehow had mesmerized her into a state of consciousness--it was a cobwebby kind of fetter, but the first she had worn.
For instance, once I mesmerized you, although you did not know it, and that is why you always have to do what I want you to, except when your daughter is near you, for her influence is stronger than mine.
Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her.
These children had frequently been mesmerized into the trance state by their father; and one of them was subject to spontaneous trance, and at one time was found in the barn in a cataleptic state.
Why, your husband says he mesmerized the child," replied the doctor, incautiously letting the secret drop.
A few days ago he mesmerized it secretly, and scared me so that I am ill from the effects of it yet.
