Under the warmth of violet eyes which sought his constantly, drawn by what one was left to infer was an irresistible attraction, his reserve melted rapidly, his remote blue stare grew infinitely less distant; and though he blushed furiously at some of the more audacious of Liane's sallies, he was quick to take his cue when she expressed curiosity concerning the duties of the officer of the watch.

But with Aylmer there was, and would always be, less real freedom and impersonal frankness, because there was so much more selfconsciousness; in fact because there was an unacknowledged but very strong mutual physical attraction.

We had discovered the secret of gunpowder, the magnetic attraction, the properties of electricity, long before they were heard of in Europe.

But he begins to grasp real scientific truth from his experiences with the elements which have for him such a mysterious attraction; by the very contact with water something in the child responds to its stimulus.

At the New York state fairs during the early '50s the tournaments of the volunteer fire department of the various cities throughout the state formed one of the principal attractions.

Christ in the flesh, I would indeed I might have seen, and Rome in her flower were worth even such a price, but for me an Apostle disputing would, let me confess it, have little attraction.

The peculiar attractions of Coeur d'Alene must in a short time render it a much sought for resort.

All women were to him 'filles de joie.' Sexual rather than social attractions in women appealed to him.

Now, what has given to the religion of Buddha such an extraordinary attraction for the people of Eastern Asia? Buddhism has a twofold aspect,practical and speculative.

A life of profligacy had not rendered Louis wholly insensible to the superior attractions of innocence and virtue.

Young Tom must himself have possessed unusual attractions, or a boldness in wooing which his son does not inherit, for at the end of a week he disturbed his father at his morning dram to inform him that he and Mistress Patricia had decided to get married.

The new casino proves an "extra" attraction in summer, but it is to be regretted that, for gambling purposes alone, many people should be drawn to this quaint old-world town, so worthy of a visit for its picturesqueness alone.

My situation in life, my connections with the family of De Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favour; and you should take it into further consideration that, in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made to you.

The positive school of criminology, then, was born in our own Italy through the singular attraction of the Italian mind toward the study of criminology; and its birth is also due to the peculiar condition our country with its great and strange contrast between the theoretical doctrines and the painful fact of an ever increasing criminality.

But she soon realised that true joys were not to be found in the mere attractions of society.

A subtle mental attraction drew them together, and Khadijah divined intuitively the power lying within the mind of this youth and also his need of her, both mentally and materially, to enable him to realise his whole self.

"Perhaps," she retorted, "I, too, find your sudden attraction for me a little remarkable.

The Landlady's Daughter is the prima donna in the way of feminine attractions.

JANAUSCHEK does not draw by the force of capillary attraction.

If distant, thou dost rise a star Whose beams are with my being wrought, And curvest all my teeming thought With sweet attractions from afar.

Christianity has only modified Art by purifying it from sensual attractions.

Each of those poems hit some one great point of universal attraction, at least in their respective countries, and among the givers of fame in others.

The heart of the Christian world cannot but feel that so gifted a man, endowed with every intellectual attraction, who reigned for a time with so much wisdom, who recognized Jehovah as the guide and Lord of Israel, as especially appears at the dedication of the Temple, and who wrote such profound lessons of moral wisdom, would not be suffered to descend to the grave without the divine forgiveness.

The village of Hawsker, with its massive though modern church, can be seen across the fields towards the west, but it does not offer sufficient attractions to divert you from the cliffs, unless you have a desire to see in one or two of the fields, gateways and rubbing-posts formed of whales' jaws, suggestive of the days when Whitby carried on a thriving trade with the great cetaceans.

But with such uncommon attractions, what chance has kept you from our sight? LADY.