That is why a superior boxer seems to hypnotize his antagonist with movements which to the spectator seem perfectly easy, slow, and sure.

Finally, I hypnotized my audience with great eloquence, stating that I would give them teaching or clubbing as they might prefer.

"She thinks," said Varick, a little hesitatingly, "that Bubbles, in addition to her extraordinary thought-reading gift, has inherited from her Indian ancestress a power of collectively hypnotizing an audienceof making people see things that she wants them to see.

" "But she couldn't hypnotize your brother Lawrence, althought he was so much younger.

I hypnotized the girl Fanny, and when she opened her eyes in the hypnotic state the doctor made the usual tests for coma, exposing the eyes to the sudden glare of a brilliant light, sticking pins into her flesh, and so forth, and pronounced the coma absolute when, as he stuck a pin in her arm, she spoke, saying, "I wouldn't do that, it might hurt Fanny!"

"Which the general idea is me doing baby talk and sort of hypnotizing this Bard feller into coming along?"

Marianne, he must have hypnotized that hoss!" "Oh, Dad," the girl wailed, "if he diesif he dies" The eyes of Perris, where he lay on the flagging, opened wearily.

Well, it would kill you dead to see a fool boy side up to a hyena cage and try to hypnotize a hyena by kind words and a pious example, saying soothing words like: "Soo, boss," or "O, come off now, and be a good fellow," and see the hyena snarl and show his teeth like an anarchist that a multi-millionaire might try to tame so he would take a roll of money out of his hand without biting the hand.

As the warm hand of the king clasped his own Captain Plum knew that he was in the presence of a master of human destinies, a man whose ponderous red-visaged body was simply the crude instrument through which spoke the marvelous spirit that had enslaved thousands to him, that had enthralled a state legislature and that had hypnotized a federal jury into giving him back his freedom when evidence smothered him in crime.

Yet it does not prevent my trying to hypnotize Kromitzki.

“Liberty, equality, and fraternity” was as much a creed as the Creed of the Apostles; it hypnotized men’s minds like a revelation from on high; and reason had as little part in its propagation as in the spread of Christianity or of Protestantism.

Mr. Ellsworth had to hypnotize Connie's mother and now Connie's a first class scout.

Fakirs have hypnotized people I know and have made them witness events and spectacles which they afterward learned were transpiring, at the very moment, five and six thousand miles away.

Fortunate, indeed, would it have been had that brave officer and splendid gentleman been left to develop and carry out his plans, but unhappily that was not to be, for the churches succeeded in hypnotizing the grim soldier in the White House, and the result was the "Peace Commission.

They hypnotize subjects and go into trances themselves, in which condition the soul is supposed to leave the body and visit the gods.