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"Ought to be in the United States Senate," smiled Elizabeth. "I wish I could make up my mind as to whether he is outrageously handsome or desperately ugly," remarked Helen of Troy. "He fascinates me, but whether it is the fascination of liking or of horror I can't tell, and it's quite important."
But in graceful hands it is unobtrusive, a mere bit of decoration that teases and fascinates the beholder's eye. With all his poise and equanimity I was distinctly conscious that Montani's dark eyes were intent upon the idly swaying fan.
To-night I sat and watched it till a tangled forest sprang up about me, and I saw a strange, high-bowed, storm-beaten craft glide past me, ghostly white, its ghostly sailors gazing ahead and dreaming of spices and gold. The old, old river my only friend in a whole city! It goes its way it is not of the hour. It fascinates me, and I sit and sit and wonder.
Bending forward, leaning his chin upon his wrist, placing the other hand upon his knee, on what does he for ever ponder? The sight, as Rogers said well, "fascinates and is intolerable." Michael Angelo has shot the beaver of the helmet forward on his forehead, and bowed his head, so as to clothe the face in darkness. But behind the gloom there is no skull, as Rogers fancied.
"I don't think you're right," she said at last in tones of conviction. "I don't believe she 'needs' him at all. I dare-say he still fascinates her. He has" she hesitated "a curious sort of fascination for some women. And the sooner Nan is cured of it the better." "I've done all that I could," he answered briefly. "Don't I know that?" Kitty slipped her arm into his. "You've been splendid!
This huge, conglomerate structure of granite rising story above story to an immense height fascinates the beholder, who marvels at the skill and patience of the builders. As though to heighten its beauty, the Potala is separated from the city by a park of grass and trees about a mile wide, making the stately edifice look like a huge diamond encircled with emeralds.
The popularity of "Eothen" is a paradox: it fascinates by violating all the rules which convention assigns to viatic narrative.
Malacca Mediaevalism Tiger Stories The Chinese Carnival Gold and Gems A Weight of Splendor New-Year Rejoicings Syed Abdulrahman A Mohammedan Princess A Haunted City Francis Xavier The Reward of "Pluck" Projects of Travel STADTHAUS, MALACCA, January 23. Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it.
There is a glamour about bold and lawless adventure that fascinates mature men and women who have never outgrown youthful habits of mind. Whoever has the reputation of being a dangerous man to cross the "marked" man, who carries his life upon his sleeve, but bears himself as a smiling cavalier he is the only true aristocrat among a valorous but primitive people.
At the end of term I came to London. Around me seethed swirls, eddies, torrents, violent cross-currents of human activity. What uproar! Surely I could have no part in modern life. Yet, yet for a while it was fascinating to watch the ways of its children. The prodigious life of the Prince of Wales fascinated me above all; indeed, it still fascinates me.
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