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enthrall
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enthrall as in:  enthralled by the story

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  • I am not above attempting to enthrall an intern with tales of high excitement.  (source)
  • Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.  (source)
    enthralling = fascinating (holding full attention)
  • He could have done that months ago, but something in the way he'd handled it spoke of enthrallment as well as fear.†  (source)
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  • He was so enthralled by these tales, however, that he seemed to forget they were works of fiction, constructions of the imagination that had more to do with London's romantic sensibilities than with the actualities of life in the subarctic wilderness.†  (source)
    enthralled = held spellbound (with full attention captured)
  • But it never strayed, held there by a line of fear so enthralling that, in his other eye, the world was but a circling blur of nothingness.†  (source)
    enthralling = holding spellbound (capturing full attention)
  • And though his face does not enthrall Pari as Julien's had, it is a far kinder face and, as Pari will learn before long, an external ambassador for the attentiveness, the quiet forbearance, and the enduring decency that resides within Eric.†  (source)
  • Thus Venus spoke; and from her bosom loos'd Her broider'd cestus, wrought with ev'ry charm To win the heart; there Love, there young Desire, There fond Discourse, and there Persuasion dwelt, Which oft enthralls the mind of wisest men.†  (source)
    enthralls = holds spellbound (captures full attention)
  • And I would be lying if I did not admit to a certain amount of enthrallment, dare I say attraction, to whatever occupied my new friend for those brief few seconds.†  (source)
  • Too high to be enthrall'd to low!†  (source)
  • With the expression of a boy enthralled by a street magician, he shyly stepped from the crowd and held out his chopper—that blade which had not been touched by another human hand in almost fifteen years.†  (source)
    enthralled = held spellbound (with full attention captured)
  • He holds my gaze as if he can smell my fear, a cobra enthralling its prey.†  (source)
    enthralling = holding spellbound (capturing full attention)
  • By this we know Thou, O grave, canst not enthrall us.†  (source)
  • We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us.†  (source)
    enthralls = holds spellbound (captures full attention)
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