Beauclerk's hand is tightly closed over hers, and even as Dicky and Miss Kavanagh gaze spellboundat them, he lifts the massive hand of the heiress and imprints a lingering kiss upon it.
He can only gaze spellbound at this figure, clad all in white, that walks deliberately into the room, and seemingly directly toward him.
Like a bird that watches spellbound the approach of the snake, Hellayne stood pale and trembling--her cheeks white as death--her eyes riveted on the evil shape that seemed the fiend.
The revellers stared spellbound at what, to their superstitious minds, seemed the wraith of slain Roxana returned to earth to haunt her rival.
The action of the drama meant nothing less than the deliverance of the spellbound god.
We should play with them like a child, and should earnestly strive to awaken forth from them God, who sleeps spellbound within them.
God lies hidden spellbound in the world, and you need His own power to find Him.
They lie as though spellbound in the merely natural man and await their release.
Fidgety men were quieted in his presence, women were spellbound by it, and the busy, anxious public contemplated his majestic calm with a feeling of relief, as well as admiration.
He spoke only in the ordinary tone of conversation; but his voice filled the room as the organ fills a great cathedral, and the ladies stood spellbound as the swelling cadences rolled about the vast apartment.
When Henry made his stirring speech against the Stamp Act, Jefferson stood in the doorway of the House and listened spellbound to his friend's fiery eloquence.
The people began to listen, and then to lean forward spellbound by the charm of his eloquence and the power of his argument.
The spellbound listeners had broken out with irritated protests against the interruption, and Tus-ka-sah said no more.
The last words, as may be imagined, provoked a storm of hisses; nevertheless, he kept his audience spellbound until midnight.
The men who positively kept the adult population of France spellbound by their stirring romances seemed to take a delight in competing with women like Virginie Ancelot, the Duchesse d'Abrantes, and others on the latter's ground.
She felt it was indeed a wonderful power that had been given her, to be able to sway so vast a gathering, to hold her listeners spellbound while she played, and to rouse them to such a height of intense feeling.
In only moments the fire found the powder room aft of the orlop deck, and as the English seamen looked on spellbound the galleon seemed to erupt in a single cloud of fire, rocketing burning timbers and spars across the sea's surface.
The assembly watched spellbound for a moment, then burst into cheers.
The crowd, which had held a spellbound silence, erupted into cheers.
In the spellbound silence that followed, the nobles around Hawksworth burst into cheers.
He watched spellbound for a moment, then turned again toward the stern.
Hawksworth stared spellbound as a rain of Rajput arrows glanced harmlessly off his black steel body armor.
Their knowledge of the affairs of county and state politics was unsurpassed, and as mere orators they held large gatherings spellbound by their magnetic influence.
On entering the school house we were held spellbound and speechless for a moment by a strange musical yet weird sound which seemed to come from the rear of the room.
His paramour had him spellbound and made him no more than a galley slave rowing the master's carnal euphoria.
It was as mysterious as the primordial desire of sex, communion, and connection which had driven him spellbound into contact with the flesh of the paramour hours ago.
God be thanked, the spirits rejoice, the hearts are full of fervour, the souls are held spellbound by that shining Face.
Spellbound I stood, looking and listening; but alas!
Kirkwood and Dorothy alike sat spellbound with the fascination of the game; if it is conceivable that the fox enjoys his part in the day's sport, then they were enjoying themselves.
Overhead stars popped out in brilliance and dropped their reflections to swim lazily on spellbound waters.
In church he would preach well-imagined sermons tospellbound listeners.
Boriskoff, the Pole, did not hold these people spellbound by the vigor of his denunciation or the rhythmic chant of his anger.
Such a discovery, thrusting into his schemes as it did an idea which hitherto had escaped him, held him for an instant spellbound with wonder.
The cynic in him laid down his robe and stood before her in the garb of youth spellbound and fascinated.
Illustration: "The two men stood spellbound before the easel.
The two men stood spellbound before the easel, and Thornly watched them curiously.
The sole witness to this battle primeval stood spellbound at the sight of the fierce, brutal ferocity of the white man, and the lion-like strength he exhibited.
The sleeping soldiers gradually stirred and sat listening spellbound to the music.
She was immediately spellbound by Franz's music, and he became the lodestar of her dreams.
Jean, thinking to linger but a moment before returning to the store, was spellbound by the mystery and loneliness of the scene.
As the White Chief made his way through the throng he noted with satisfaction that Ellen Boreland and her sister were standing spellbound in the doorway of the trading-post watching the primitive masquerade.
For a moment the creatures lay spellbound around him; then one by one they crept back to their homes, with their fears and their hatreds tamed for a while by the magic of his singing.
While the magic of his singing held them spellbound Apollo urged his plea.
He had been spellbound by this, and by the eloquence of the young barrister until the end of the speech, when he had hastened to Judge Merlin and demanded the name and the history of the débutante.
Like a miser who has nothing else in life to look for, I gazed spellbound at those securities in whose security I even now could not believe.
Pendleton, who at that moment entered the door of the study, possibly to find Alicia, stood for a few moments spellbound by the picture, even as I stood outside.
