But he knows that its power is mesmeric and cannot be escaped.

I am the victim of a peculiar kind of fascination which is as irresistible as the mesmeric influence or hypnotism.

" The new-comer fastened his gaze upon the other; he had superb, almost mesmeric eyes.

Once before I had seen him look thus greedily, when, grasping a Troglodyte tablet covered with half-effaced hieroglyphicshis fingers livid with the fixity of his griphe bent on it that strenuous inquisition, that ardent questioning gaze, till, by a species of mesmeric dominancy, he seemed to wrench from it the arcanum it hid from other eyes; then he lay back, pale and faint from the too arduous victory.

A gentle perspiration began to break out on her skin, and in a very short time the Ojah had thrown her into a deep mesmeric sleep.

Because Grace Harvey exercised, without intending anything of the kind, an almost mesmeric influence on every one in the little town.

The mesmeric spell broke, and Bennington was permitted to babble incoherencies.

Since then "A Dead Man's Diary"of which Mr. J.M. Barrie, in reviewing it, said, "The vigour of the book is great, and the author has such a gift of intensity that upon many readers it will have mesmeric effect"has gone through innumerable editions, in England and in America.

There was an attempt made to cast ridicule upon it by a very few headed by Mr. Cave Johnson, who proposed an amendment that half the sum should be appropriated to mesmeric experiments.

Mr. Stanly said he should have no objection to the appropriation for mesmeric experiments, provided the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Cave Johnson] was the subject.

Several gentlemen called for the reading of the amendment, and it was read by the Clerk, as follows: "Provided, That one half of the said sum shall be appropriated for trying mesmeric experiments under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

There are womenand these, though sometimes the most fascinating, by no means the most trustworthy of their sexwho possess over mankind a mesmeric influence, almost akin to witchcraft.

Henry Warner would have borne almost death itself for the sake of being nursed by the young girl beside him, and he signified his willingness to proceed, while at the same time his hand involuntarily grasped that of Maggie, as if in the touch of her snowy fingers there were a mesmeric power to soothe his pain.

And certainly, whether some mesmeric influence from her enthusiastic Fairy Godmother was working on Hermione's brain, or whether her own quotation upon the doomed tree had stirred up other poetical recollections, I know not; but as she was retracing her steps homewards, she repeated to herself softly but with much pathos, Coleridge's lines: "O lady, we receive but what we give,

Though sensible to mesmeric influences, I was not willing that my spiritual nature should be the instrument of another's will,that a human being, like myself, should become possessed of all my secrets and sanctities, touching the keys of every passion with his unhallowed fingers.

But it was not the mesmeric shave of 1914.

His beautifully-formed head, delicate profile, fascinating sweetness of smile, and, above all, an eye which seemed to have an almost mesmeric power of attraction, were traits which distinguished one of the most celebrated men of the time, and one whose peculiar history yet lives not only in our national records, but in the private annals of many an American family.

Was it sufficient for him to fore-plan the plots of his plays, the story, acts, scenes, persons,the general rough idea, or argument,and then to sit at his table, and, by some process analogous to mesmeric manipulations, put himself into a condition in which his genius should elaborate and shape what he, by the aid of his poetic taste and all other faculties, had been able to rough-hew?

Is it that the Medium exercises some mesmeric influence on her visitors, who are thus made to accept the faces which she wills them to see?

He was one of those who are born to commandof splendid physique and dignified bearing, superior intellect and mesmeric fascination.

I am at a loss to believe that he supposes me to think that a theory of mesmeric wonders (as the complement of an atheistic creed?) is "a question pertaining to God," or that my rebuke bore the slightest reference to such a matter.

Nay, before he became a Romanist, what we may call his mesmeric influence acted not only on his Tractarian adherents, but even in some degree on outsiders like myself.

It was something to have the homage of even such subjects as these, and Ethelyn's heart grew softer as the pain gradually subsided beneath Eunice's mesmeric touch, so that she answered graciously the questions propounded by her as to whether that sack, or great-coat, or whatever it was called, which she wore around her, was the very last style, how much it took to cut it, and if Miss Markham had the pattern.

OD, name given to a physical force recently surmised and believed to pervade all nature, and as manifesting itself chiefly in connection with mesmeric phenomena.

Tlapáne used to retire, 'perhaps into some cave, to remain in a hypnotic or mesmeric state' until the moon was full.