In 1812 Keats read for the first time Spenser's Faery Queen, and was fascinated with it to a singular degree.

She read The Explorer, fascinated in a shivery, uncanny way by the first line, as though a ghostly voice were whispering to her from the black corners of the cave: "There's no sense in going furtherit's the edge of cultivation."

Sir Horace bore patiently with her until she made the chance acquaintance of Birchill, and became instantly fascinated by him.

Long we gazed, fascinated at the scene before us.

I choked back the cry which rose to my lips; I gripped my hands behind me, in a desperate attempt to hold myself in check; and, fascinated as by a deadly serpent, I stood staring at the cabinet.

At one moment they were in the shed, they said, fascinated like moths in the glare of the torch, and the next thing they knew they were in the midst of a horde of underclothed Tommiestrapped.

They stared at the swirling water, fascinated for the moment.

à merveille; occasionally condescends to fascinate on the guitar, and the lute also, should that instrument, now rather antiquated, fall in her way.

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

The conduct of Greenleaf, without any design on his part, had been such as to draw her on irresistibly, until their positions had become reversed; she was now fascinated beyond self-control, and without a thought of the future, while he was merely agreeable, but inwardly cool and s