4, 5) which has become proverbial: 'They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent: even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears; which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.' 1. 4.

I must confess I am so wonderfully charmed with the Musick of this little Instrument, that I would by no Means discourage it.

It all charmed him inexpressibly, so that he realisedyes, in a sensethe degradation of his twenty years' absorption in business.

This is one of those amiable contradictions in human nature that charms me excessively.

It was not a very elegant structure: it was, in fact, a plain, phlegmatic aggregation of brick and mortar, calculated to charm no body externally, and evidently patronised for absolute internal rapture.

They were not taken abackthere was no servilityno resentment they were frankly charmed with the idea.

And the eyes that looked into hersthose eyes that had held her, dominated her, charmed herwere the eyes of a murderer.

To this class may be reduced the Grecian Prodigals, who were detained in the service of their creditors, till the fruits of their labour were equivalent to their debts; the delinquents, who were sentenced to the oar; and the German enthusiasts, as mentioned by Tacitus, who were so immoderately charmed with gaming, as, when every thing else was gone, to have staked their liberty and their very selves.

He was alternately charmed and frightened, beguiled and disgusted, attracted and repulsed.

The truth is, he was so far gone in loving her that he would have been charmed by her ways no matter what they might have been.

Therein lies precisely the charm of this book for boyish minds; the details are given with such candour that it seems as if they must all be true.

A moment she stood with the keen sweet air blowing in upon her, a tall, gracious figure in the full flower of comely womanhood, not beautiful, but possessing in every line of her that queenly, indescribable charm which is greater than beauty.

69 shows the various shades of brown, associated with different pronunciations of the letter A, as in "fame," "can," "charm," and "all" respectively.

Socially, he charmed us all.

No wonder then that, when we seek awhile Relief and respite from War's strident chorus, Few books more swiftly charm us to a smile, Few books more truly hearten and restore us Than his, whose art was potent to beguile Thousands of weary souls who came before us No wonder, when the Huns, who ban our fiction, Were fain to free him from their malediction.

He had suggested to the senator that, in the legal points involved in the bill, his brother-in-law would undoubtedly be charmed to advise him.

'The King was infinitely charmed with so great an Example of Moderation; and tho' he could not get him to engage in a Life of Business, made him however his chief Companion and first Favourite.

150 Let gentle George in triumph tread the stage, Make Dorimant betray, and Loveit rage; Let Cully, Cockwood, Fopling, charm the pit, And in their folly show the writer's wit.

Instructed by his astute mother, the young man paid great court to the two visitors, and charmed them exceedingly.