Irresistible

Examples

• The sight stirred Lily with an irresistible sense of triumph. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And without doubt the lady so crushed with gifts would find them irresistible. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She suddenly looked up at me with a faint reflection of her smile of happier times--the most irresistible smile I have ever seen on a woman's face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Dorothea wondered; but the smile was irresistible, and shone back from her face too. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The heavenly gentleness of his smile made his apologies irresistible. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was thinking of his own plans, and lost in pompous admiration of his own irresistible powers of pleasing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The strife still continues between impenetrable armour plate and irresistible projectiles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Slowly, very slowly she turned, as though drawn by some invisible yet irresistible force. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was not so much a reproach as an irresistible thinking aloud. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The one hope left is that his motives really spring, as he says they do, from the irresistible strength of his attachment to Laura. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• What was there lacking about that program to make it perfectly irresistible? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I descended on the miserable man in an irresistible avalanche of indignation, and swept him from the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• As one man we moved, an irresistible fighting mass, over the bodies of dead and dying foes toward the gorgeous throne of the Martian deity. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Irresistible Projectiles and Impenetrable Armour Plate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The fact was, as Emma could now acknowledge, that Harriet had always liked Robert Martin; and that his continuing to love her had been irresistible. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It is there the defenders are armed with the irresistible explosives. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These, judging from yourselves, you think are motives irresistible. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Chemistry especially has always had irresistible attractions for me from the enormous, the illimitable power which the knowledge of it confers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And yet there he was before me, in full possession of his charming voice and his irresistible smile! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Professor didn't know what to make of her, and stopped at last to ask with an air of mild surprise that was irresistible. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• What is the use of a promise to such a beautiful creature as you, who know yourself to be irresistible. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A really irresistible man--courteous, considerate, delightfully free from pride--a gentleman, every inch of him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is either irresistible, or has no manner of force. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This argument was irresistible. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I no sooner perceived an abatement of the flames than, hurried on by an irresistible impulse, I endeavoured to penetrate the town. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Nevertheless, Langley's desire to construct a large, man-carrying aeroplane ultimately became irresistible. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They were all drawn towards the house-door by some irresistible impulse; impelled thither--not by a poor curiosity, but as if by some solemn blast. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It has an irresistible attraction for him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Both institutions derived their origin, either from irresistible necessity, or from clear and evident utility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Edited by Cheryl