Charm, enchant, fascinate, captivate, enrapture, bewitch, infatuate, enamor.

fascinate; enrapture &c (give pleasure)

excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.

So believing, so aspiring, so meditating, divinely sweet and beautiful will be your spiritual experiences, and glorious the revelations that will enrapture your inward vision.

The soft contours soothe as well as enrapture the eye: the tenderness of the Madonnas, the gentleness of the Florentine ladies and youths, as Verrocchio and Mino da Fiesole, Donatello, and Pollaiuolo moulded them, calm one where the perfection of Phidias and Praxiteles excites.

Renowned for her fine macaroni, And also for Signor MARCONI, Now Italy sends, To enrapture her friends, (And to finish these rhymes), the Caproni.

So he laid before her enraptured gaze the wealth of the Indiesthe treasure baubles of a hundred queensblue and green, and red and yellow, they gleamed at her.

He went over all the games of the past season, while Bambi turned an enraptured face upon him.

Its excessive delicacy attracted; the finesse of its embroidery swayed and enraptured the audience; and the applause at the close was mad, deafening, and peremptory.

On a dark night in the month of December, just as Alonzo had played one of his bewitching airs, with his wonted execution, and was engaged, in converse sweet, with the enraptured Carlotta, an extraordinary and seemingly supernatural noise suddenly proceeded from a distant part of the hallowed ground where Alonzo sacrificed at the shrine of love.

It was his moment of glory,long-awaited but enrapturing him at last.

Ouida writes in winter mornings at a Venetian writing-table of cinquecento work that would enrapture the souls of the virtuosi who haunt Christie's.E. Yates, Celebrities, xix.

The worthy Bishop handed the paper back to the enraptured boy, and turned to Joel Rae, who now came up.

It stuns the ear with a perpetual boom, giving a dash of grandeur to the enrapturing beauty of the scene.

In a letter to her cousin, Rev. George S. Payson, Mrs. Prentiss thus refers to his last hours: You will hear at dear Dr. Skinner's funeral to-morrow his dying testimony, and I want you to know that it was whispered in my enraptured ear, that I was privileged to spend the whole of Tuesday and all he lived of Wednesday, at his side, and that mine were the hands that closed his eyes and composed his features in death.

It is pleasant to look back upon past pleasures, to recall the beautiful scenes we have once witnessed, the smile of friendship, the tear of sympathy, the glance of affection, the tone of love, or to listen again to the thrilling sounds of soul-enrapturing music, that has once delighted us.

Possibly every one of the thousands who listen is secretly comparing the eloquence of the speaker with his own skilful ability, and not quite calmly biding the time when he shall enrapture, where the present speaker wearies and annoys.

"Fly!" she said; "the doors of thy prison are open; and may the angels of heaven direct thy course!" "Thou art surely one of these angels!" said the enraptured Theodore.

And in an hour or two the other wind did spring up; I felt it in my face, and slowly the Sparhawk turned her bow toward it, and, enrapturing sight!

A sweet enchantment plays on every sense When my harmonious flood has reached its height Until the enraptured soul would fain go hence

Again the afternoon hour, the white shell-paved court, its two playing fountains, the roses, lilies, jasmines and violets, their perfume spicing all the air, and the oriole and mocking-bird enrapturing it with their songs, although it was that same dire twenty-fourth of April of which we have been telling.

In the moral or mystic state, the soul, enraptured with God, enjoys perfect tranquility and blessedness.

"Counterparts" is a novel of ideal life; it is the land of one's dreams and one's delights; its dwellers are more real to us than the men and women into whose eyes we look upon the street, they haunt us and enrapture us, they breathe about us an atmosphere of gentle and delicious melancholy like the soft azure haze spread over meadow and hills by the faint south-wind.

Hopes which sharpen disappointment; visions which cheat while they enrapture; dreams that embitter his waking hoursfellow-student, do you envy him these?" "I do; believing that he would not forego them for a life of common-place annoyances and placid pleasures.

#ravir#, carry away, enrapture.