It was but now that lovely thing had Life, Could speak and weep, and had a thousand Charms, That had oblig'd a Murder, and Madness't self To've been her tame Adorers.

He remembered that her charm for him had been her habit of enjoyment.

The charm was the absence of constraint, and the feeling that one could say exactly what came into one's mind without any danger of being misunderstood.

The chief charm of Sevenoaks is Knole House, a splendid example of the baronial dwellings that were erected after the Wars of the Roses, when the fortress was no longer so necessary.

"The dew, the blossom on the tree, With charms inconstant shine: Their charms were his, but, woe to me, Their constancy was mine.

This charm is an alligator's tooth, stuffed with herbs, compounded and muttered over by some old woman.

The original charm of Germany had been the charm of the child.

Such a charm were right Canidian.

In the writings of both we recognize a straight-forwardness of expression equal to that of Wither, and a quaint simplicity of thought and form like that of Herrick; while the very charm of some of the best lines is their spontaneity.

The charm of other lakes had been their villa-sprinkled shores, their historical associations.

But what is, after all, the deepest charm that invests the old road is the thought of all the sad and tender associations clothing it in the minds of so many vanished generations.

But that this charm be rent, the threshold passed, Tooth of rat the way must clear.

A rabbit's foot charm, a small reproduction of the Barye lion, or the well-known Perry picture of a lion, a Dresden-china lamb or shepherdess, and a pussy-cat plate, pincushion, or paper weight are suggestions for first prizes, and four little tin horns painted green may be given as booby prizes to the four "greenhorns" who have the worst showing.

"The charm of the whole thing was her perfect innocence.

" If They Meant All They Said Charm is a woman's strongest arm; My charwoman is full of charm; I chose her, not for strength of arm

But a secret charm which John held over the young peer was his profound respect and unvarying affection for his youngest sister, Emily.

The palace is small, and is distinguished neither for taste nor architectural beauty: its sole charm is its situation.

" The charm of Sienkiewicz's psychological novels is the synthesis so seldom realized and as I have already said, the plastic beauty and abstract thoughts.

The charm of the story is its intense reality, in the succession of thoughts, feelings, incidents, which every reader recognizes to be absolutely true to life.

No "charms against being wounded in battle," such are Sir John Reresby mentions, are to be found in the volume; but there are some prayers against violent death, which have the appearance of having been transcribed from some devotional book.

Whether these charms he legitimate, and these comforts sound, is a very different question.

The charms of Charlotta were every day making new conquests; and among the number of those who pretended to admire her, how probable was it that some one might be thought worthy by her father, and she be compelled to receive the addresses of a rival.

There have been changes since that time, but the old charm is still there, the narrow and crooked streets, forming almost a labyrinth, the old buildings, and much else that I earnestly hope may never be changed.

Half the charm of life is in suspense, Papa Tignol.

But, in honest truth, the great charm of a woman, in Burns's eyes, was always her womanhood, and not the angelic mixture which other poets find in her.