Fascinated

Examples

• Electricity fascinated him, and he could watch the machines and listen to the music of their clicking by the hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Ursula was frightened of him, and fascinated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The presence of a Lord fascinated him, and he could look at nothing else. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And they fascinated her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She stood watching the motion on the bosom of the water, as if fascinated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And yet she was fascinated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Is it ungenerous or dishonourable to be devoted to you; fascinated by you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She too was fascinated by him, fascinated, as if some strange creature, a rabbit or a bat, or a brown seal, had begun to talk to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It fascinated her with the fascination of pure beauty, cast a spell on her, like nostalgia, an ache. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Fascinated as by a basilisk with three heads, I could not leave this clique; the ground near them seemed to hold my feet. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Come with me to the isles of Greece, and you will be so fascinated with the free, wild life that you will never return to your prison-house. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• These crawling things had fascinated my attention, and I was watching them from a distance, when Miss Havisham laid a hand upon my shoulder. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But she was too fascinated, she wanted to submit, she wanted to know. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She was not fascinated, only puzzled, by his grinning, his simpering, his scented cambric handkerchief, and his high-heeled lacquered boots. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The women gathered round the windows, fascinated to look on the scene which terrified them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• No wonder Miss Rachel was fascinated: no wonder her cousins screamed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There stood Miss Rachel at the table, like a person fascinated, with the Colonel's unlucky Diamond in her hand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was the youth whose personality so fascinated me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The phenomenon (the way of an eagle in the air) has always, indeed, fascinated the human imagination and at the same time baffled the comprehension. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We sat and looked, and the lamp continued to burn, and the longer it burned the more fascinated we were. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Both the Englishmen were strangely fascinated by this stranger. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Ursula was fascinated at once--and yet uneasy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Tarzan of the Apes was fascinated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Returning, I had to cross before the looking- glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Achilles, perhaps, observed the Rector, fascinated by the clear-cut features of the young man,—the godlike Achilles. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There was Gudrun, watching with steady, large, hostile eyes; the game fascinated her, and she loathed it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• On the one hand he's had religious mania, and on the other, he is fascinated by obscenity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Sometimes it came upon him, this look of clear distance, and it always fascinated her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Here I am in the playground, with my eye still fascinated by him, though I can't see him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• With my mind fully occupied by these ideas, I might be said as if fascinated, to haunt the destined abode of the young Earl. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Checker: Nicole