Such qualities in an inferior, who could always be treated with authority in spite of his superior knowingness, had necessarily a fatal fascination for Tom; and every holiday-time Maggie was sure to have days of grief because he had gone off with Bob.
From his earliest employment as an errand-boy in a seaport, he had looked through the windows of the moneychangers as other boys look through the windows of the pastry-cooks; the fascination had wrought itself gradually into a deep special passion; he meant, when he had property, to do many things, one of them being to marry a genteel young person; but these were all accidents and joys that imagination could dispense with.
" There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and always regarded by her as excessive.
There was fascination in the hope that the two purposes would illuminate each other: the careful observation and inference which was his daily work, the use of the lens to further his judgment in special cases, would further his thought as an instrument of larger inquiry.
Strangers, whether wrecked and clinging to a raft, or duly escorted and accompanied by portmanteaus, have always had a circumstantial fascination for the virgin mind, against which native merit has urged itself in vain.
The character of a scoundrel, logical and complete, has a fascination for his creator which is an outrage to law and order.
The character of a scoundrel, logical and complete, has a fascination for his creator which is an outrage to law and order.
To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story.
There's a lot of water coming down still, considering the time of the year, and the place always had a fascination for the child.
She ought, with a throat formation like that, to have been a singer, but in every kind of music Scrap was dumb except this one music of the speaking voice; and what a fascination, what a spell lay in that.
It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla.
" "You'll have to learn to resist the fascination of Idle-whatever-you-call-it.
" It was a fascination to Hargraves to watch him make it.
There was a subtle fascination in the subject for her, though she had not yet faced this fact.
Letters had a fascination for Valancy, perhaps because she so seldom got any.
Each wandered away, from time to time, but the same dismal fascination always brought them back presently.
Tom's heartbreak vanished and he joined the procession, not because he would not a thousand times rather go anywhere else, but because an awful, unaccountable fascination drew him on.
He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination and homage up to this time, now found himself suddenly without an adherent, and shorn of his glory.
Our son, at age five, had a fascination for motorcycles.
: Zhao's familiarity with rural life in North China and his fascination with folk literature and art determined the substance and style of his later writings.
