Which preposition to use with attraction
The Giant was popular with the sex, and the Fat Woman was glad to accept his invitation to come with him and listen to a scheme that he pretended to have for increasing the attractions of Fat Women.
There was certainly something in his personality which had an enormous attraction for Parisians.
This superb building will be devoted to retail purposes, | | where every description of dry-goods, from the necessary and | | convenient to the most elegant and fashionable, will attract | | a multitudinous throng, and add even a new attraction to the | | brilliancy of Broadway in the most delightful part of the | | thoroughfare.
Why, if you told the exact truth in the handbills about every Freak in my show, barring the Tattooed Girl and the Wild Man, they would still constitute a good drawing attraction in any intelligent community.
The breast is the only part which is looked on as fine in a turkey, the legs being very seldom cut off and eaten at table: they are usually removed to the kitchen, where they are taken off, as here marked, to appear only in a form which seems to have a special attraction at a bachelor's supper-table,we mean devilled: served in this way, they are especially liked and relished.
The attraction between them was mutual, and it was not long before they were whispering the first words of love into one another's ears.
The disruption was due more to the abeyance of central attraction than to any centrifugal force existing in the provinces.
Fortunately for me, I passed so nearly through the centre of the aggregation that its attraction as a whole was nearly inoperative.
The navigation laws had, too, a certain external attraction about them which induced many men, not actually Protectionists, to believe in their necessity.
Who gave us this strange attraction towards each other, in spite of our unlikeness?
His forlorn and curiously patched habiliments would have contested the point of attraction with the ordinary eloquence of that period.
Desire not only causes us to seek that which we need, but is a form of attraction by which the good is brought to us, just as the amoebae create a swirl in the waters that brings their food within reach.
Not one of the battleship commanders would allow a "jackie" ashore, except on business, through fear that many of the "wilder" ones might find the attractions on shore too alluring, and fail to return in time.
Ben heard this with satisfaction, for though he was too young to be a lover, he did have a strong feeling of attraction toward Rose, and would have been sorry to have Tom step into his place.
On all sides they exerted an indescribable, almost magical power of attraction over each other.
There is then a repulsion due to the summative effects of strong opposite currents for a lengthened period, against an attraction due to the summative effects of weak currents of the same direction during a shortened period, the resultant effect being a greatly preponderating repulsion.
Thisalways, however, under protest as to the temperature hypothesisproves some degree of attraction among the molecules, but it does not prove ultimate attraction between two molecules in collision, or at distances much less than the average mutual distance of nearest neighbors in the multitude.
" "Then I expect I had better hide my attractions under a bushel during the remainder of my stay at Caddagat?"
He entered this gloomy retreat, situated amid marshes and morasses, with no outward attractions like Cluny, but unhealthy and miserably poor,the dreariest spot, perhaps, in Burgundy; and he entered at the head of thirty young men, of the noble class, among whom were four of his brothers who had been knights, and who presented themselves to the abbot as novices, bent on the severest austerities that human nature could support.
If distant, thou dost rise a star Whose beams are with my being wrought, And curvest all my teeming thought With sweet attractions from afar.
She was quite sure with Lewisham that only the possible dishonour of mediumship could have brought their marriage aboutshe sank the mutual attraction beyond even her own vision.
I have known many cases of this kind, and have received many letters of fervent thanks from both men and women who followed my private counsel to let time prove the new attraction before severing old ties and making new ones.
" From which conversation it will be seen that Antony's mind was still revolving with unconscious attraction around the mystery of Art.