The rashness of this act of Julius sent a thrill of admiration throughout Italy, stirring that sense of terribilità which fascinated the imagination of the Renaissance.

His mother "talked so earnestly on this point that his mind became full of it; his observation and imagination were centered upon oaths, until at last he was so fascinated that he became filled with an uncontrollable desire to swear.

One is fascinated to look again and again, though the eyes ache.

Oh! how the sweet girl singer charmed, indeed fascinated, her audience with her delightfully fresh voice, and by her attractive appearance and winning manner.

The game had been served before her next neighbor, a sprightly young New Yorker, who had been rather fascinated by her beauty, contrived to arouse her into something like animation.

He, a young man, not five years older than herself, very gentle in manner and with a remarkably sweet expression of face, evidently is fascinated, and even strongly moved, if one may judge by the feverish color in his cheeks, the eager inquiry of his gaze and the tremor of his lips.

Every auditor was fascinated and held closely bound.

He had sat thrilled and fascinated under the magic of the burning words which had swept men by the hundreds to enlist.

Lately he honored us with a visit, and I was so fascinated with his manners!

He was an Englishman who had come to the coast in the whaler 'Orion,' and being fascinated by the country and the carefree Spanish life, had married a lovely little señorita, the daughter of Lieutenant Martinez, later Comandante of the Presidio.

There was one, a negro slave, whose dark glittering eye fascinated his fellows, and whose wondrous powers of speech drew them, despite themselves, into the conspiracy.

They failed to perceive that he owed his grandeur to his personality; and that the audacities which fascinated them, became mere whimsical extravagances when severed from his terribilità and sombre simplicity of impassioned thought.

But no, Ian was fascinated, not frightened.

It was only too clear that Bubbles had fascinated James Tapster, as she generally did all dull and unimaginative people.

The unfortunate man was feeling very nervous and uneasyafraid lest he had been too precipitate in his wooing, for Bubbles frightened as well as fascinated him.

There was a long list of the prices of stock and farm produce in this edition, which perfectly fascinated its reader.

I think the ships fascinated me, because we had come on one.

How the task fascinated; he made it his art and his first thought.

The thought fascinated, that there must be some hidden meaning to the queer promise she had been impelled to maketo ride with him Saturday....

A sonorous voice; a figure and bearing which, though stiff and ungainly, were singularly dignified; an inexhaustible copiousness of grandiloquent phrase; a peculiar vein of sarcasm which froze like ice and cut like steelthese were some of the characteristics of the oratory which from 1782 to 1806 at once awed and fascinated the House of Commons.

Mr. Gladstone remembered the "light and music" of the eloquence with which he had fascinated Liverpool seventy years before.

She came with the doctor, whose thick, curly, white hair attracted my attention and fascinated me.

When he awoke, ten hours later, he informed Bruce, sitting by the bed, that he had no intention of committing suicide.... Years later, as a grey-haired Major, he learnt, from the man's own brother, the story of the strange hero who had fascinated him, and of whose past he had known nothingsave that it had been that of a man.

He was fascinated by the Odyssey and in a mood of fleeting enthusiasm he resolved to read nothing but the ancients for the next two years.

The mystery of the thing fascinated him; and the impression that it had something to do with Charlton, and the yet stronger motive of a sense of duty to the afflicted woman, made him resolute in his determination to penetrate it.