mesmeric-like

Updated: May 18, 2025

Then, moving with a slow, measured tread, he wept, and with many sighs of grief adjusted the head with much care, caught rain in his shield and poured it over the body; then rubbed and shook the limbs, which by degrees became alive by his mesmeric-like passings and chafings from the feet upwards.

Henriette McDougall - Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak