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Judy twisted and squirmed and shrunk away like a bird being gradually hypnotized by a serpent at least so it seemed to Molly peeping through a crack in the door. "I tell you it will be impossible," Judy was saying, after a pause, when Adele burst out with: "Those are unlucky words, Judy Kean.
Slowly I moved my hand toward him and stroked his back with a twig. If you can tickle a frog's back in any way you put a spell upon him. He becomes quite hypnotized. He was instantly responsive to my passes. He began to swell and foreshorten, and when I used my finger instead of the twig, he puffed up very rapidly, rose up more upon his feet, and bowed his head.
A purely psychological curiosity hypnotized him to see how far the banker would go in his apparent generosity. "I once heard you say, I believe, in a sermon, that the Christian religion is a leaven. It is the leaven that softens and ameliorates the hard conditions of life, that makes our relations with our fellow-men bearable. But life is a contest, it is war.
The prestige of good is stupendous. We are all hypnotized by it; and the reason we are slow in realizing the ideal is, not that we are evil, but that we are stupid. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1916. "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens" no one had a better right to say that than a German poet.
No one save Kennicott knew exactly what this meant, but they laughed, and Sam Clark's party assumed a glittering lemon-yellow color of brocade panels and champagne and tulle and crystal chandeliers and sporting duchesses. Carol saw that George Edwin Mott and the blanched Mr. and Mrs. Dawson were not yet hypnotized.
She paused, meditating, dreaming, almost hypnotized by his strange world of fancy. "Will you?" he asked, eagerly. "Wait," she said, softly. "Let me think. Can I?" She paused. "Yes," she said, after a time, drawing in a deep breath. "Yes" as if she had arranged something in her mind. "My sweet," he whispered, pressing her arm, while he looked at her profile in the moonlight.
In the depths of those great, dark-circled eyes life seemed to be reflected in new forms. . . . Marguerite! They stared at one another for a long while, as though hypnotized with surprise. She looked alarmed when Desnoyers advanced a step toward her. No . . . No! Her eyes, her hands, her entire body seemed to protest, to repel his approach, to hold him motionless.
Johnny Two-Hawks probably did it." "Bully for Two-Hawks! Kitty, you're a marvel. Not a flivver from the start. And those slate-blue eyes of yours don't miss many things." "Listen!" she interrupted, taking hold of his sleeve. "Hear it?" "Only the Elevated." "Tumpitum-tump! Tumpitum-tump! Cutty, you hypnotized me this afternoon with your horrid drums." "The emeralds?"
But worst of all was the loss of that moral strength, which he himself reckoned as three-fourths of the whole force in war. Hitherto he had always been able to marshal the popular impulse on his side. As the heir to the Revolution he had appealed, and not in vain, to the democratic forces which he had hypnotized in France but sought to stir up in his favour abroad.
They played it with an astounding delicacy. Through the latter half of the movement I could hear Mr Brindley breathing regularly and heavily through his nose, exactly as though he were being hypnotized. I had a tickling sensation in the small of my back, a sure sign of emotion in me. The atmosphere was changed. 'What a heavenly thing! I exclaimed enthusiastically, when they had finished.
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