Attractions

Examples

• All Jos's blood tingled with delight, as he surveyed this victim to his attractions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• At your age, and with your attractions, is it possible for you to sentence yourself to a single life? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• To have resisted such attractions, to have withstood such tenderness! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• How much share have the attractions of Nature ever had in the pleasurable or painful interests and emotions of ourselves or our friends? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For Edison, in spite of the achievement with which its name will forever be connected, it had lost all its attractions and all its possibilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It had given them a child; but it had not detracted from the personal attractions of my sister. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The remark being made to me in consequence of my being next him as we walked, I assented and enumerated its chief attractions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Glacier National Park is the latest addition to the series of great natural attractions which the United States Government has been acquiring for years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He is ceremonious, stately, most polite on every occasion to my Lady, and holds her personal attractions in the highest estimation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You use the word, ma'am, I have myself used,' said Rokesmith, with a glance at Bella, 'when you speak of Miss Wilfer's attractions there. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I should have thought those larger windows of the drawing-room and dining-room would have had more attractions for him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• And it is not worth while to forsake justice and virtue for the attractions of poetry, any more than for the sake of honour or wealth. Plato. The Republic.
• The accidents of the morning had helped his frustrated imagination to shape an employment for himself which had several attractions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And yet a married woman, possessing your attractions, shuts her eyes (and sparklers too), and goes and runs her delicate-formed head against a wall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That pretty little village offered at the moment many attractions as a possible Chicago. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In speaking of her attractions, I would not exaggerate language; but, indeed, they seemed to me very real and engaging. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• If not, he begs permission to remain in his retirement, surrounded by the peaceful horticultural attractions of a country life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• 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.
• She is a very superior young lady, of very remarkable attractions, graces, and virtues. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• That when my old face was gone from me, and I had no attractions, he could love me just as well as in my fairer days. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yes it is, said I, because I cannot bear that people should say, 'she throws away her graces and attractions on a mere boor, the lowest in the crowd. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But without the least effect, though even Mr Fledgeby's attractions were cast into the scale. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was one of the marvellous attractions at the great Paris Exposition of 1900. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This sad change in her only increases her attractions for Sir Percival. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She gave me a gracious welcome to her domain and indicated, with much gratification and pride, its principal attractions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He left Emmy under the persuasion that she was slain by his wit and attractions and went home to his lodgings to write a pretty little note to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is slowly distorted by the attractions of the other planets, for ages it may be nearly circular, for ages it is more or less elliptical. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Miss Crawford's attractions did not lessen. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• My protege, as you call him, is a sensible man; and sense will always have attractions for me. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Fanny combined with the attractions of her youth and beauty, a certain weight of self-sustainment as if she had been married twenty years. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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