The spell employed was noveltyor, at most, wonderand the chief emotion aroused was breathless interest in the progress of the story.

But he knew that once the reality dawned on her that the spell was a fake, that she was just as ugly as ever, and that he had escaped, she would be absolutely beside herself with rage.

The special spell of Dawson was upon them allthe surface aliveness, the inner deadness, the sense of being cut off from all the rest of the world, as isolated as a man is in a dream, with no past, no future, only a fantastic, intensely vivid Now.

Old wives and stars are his counsellors, his night-spell is his guard, and charms his physicians.

The most potent spell the nineteenth century cast on its youth was the yearning for a home of their own, not a piece of their father's.

I am so sorry that to-morrow is our last day, though it is to Minto that we go, but I feel as if a spell would be brokena spell of such enchantment.

He loved things that were rare and strange; and the spell that bound him so strongly to Venetia Herbert was her unusual life, and the singular circumstances of her destiny that were not unknown to him.

A spell you must prepare, a powerful one, Peruse but these directions, you shall find all; There is the picture too, be quick, and faithful, And do it with that strengthwhen 'tis perform'd, Pitch your reward at what you please, you have it.

And now this spell was snapt: once more I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen 445 Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend 450 Doth close behind him tread.