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  • But he couldn't move; he was too mesmerized, too scared.†   (source)
  • Sophie was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, Harry looked up, high above him, and saw the eyes of the black dragon, with vertical pupils like a cat's, bulging with either fear or rage, he couldn't tell which…… It was making a horrible noise, a yowling, screeching scream.†   (source)
  • For a second the colors mesmerize me, bright green and deep blue and brown.†   (source)
  • Garvey's dance seemed to mesmerize Peter, who watched closely, following every movement.†   (source)
  • It called her speech "mesmerizing, hypnotic, mysteriously touching."†   (source)
  • Hades had the same intense eyes, the same kind of mesmerizing, evil charisma.†   (source)
  • I read through four of the twenty-five pages, mesmerized by how many laws exist to separate us.†   (source)
  • I was mesmerized by the intricacy of the procedure and didn't realize how long I had been neglecting my work.†   (source)
  • The four of us sat there mesmerized by the song, trying to understand what the black fellows were saying.†   (source)
  • Lydia, rocking in her wheelchair, appeared to be mesmerized by the one-sided phone conversation; Ethel held the candlestick like a weapon.†   (source)
  • I watched that hand, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • It's dusty and confusing and mesmerizing all at once.†   (source)
  • Still the sleek brown head bent mesmerized over the list.†   (source)
  • Maybe he was too mesmerized by her to notice anything; or maybe, thought Jimmy, love really was blind.†   (source)
  • She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, I lost all track of time.†   (source)
  • NotreDame is mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Cinder watched, mesmerized and disgusted, as the android pressed the blade into Sacha's wrist.†   (source)
  • She mesmerized them with her tellings.†   (source)
  • I was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • She stood mesmerized, watching one of her mother's cells divide in two, just as they'd done when Henrietta was an embryo in her mother's womb.†   (source)
  • The gigantic eye was mesmerizing and beautiful.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, Fairy, told us what?' echoed Juliet belligerently, still a bit miffed over the mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • In his faded tartan bathrobe and brown leather slippers with the rundown heels, his hair all in sleep corkscrews and Alfalfa cowlicks, he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.†   (source)
  • I became mesmerized by the action scenes and the fast-paced music that carried the film.†   (source)
  • Brom's words dropped to a mesmerizing whisper.†   (source)
  • He sings softly to the bees as he walks through the village, and the children all run after him, mesmerized by the prospect of honey, their eagerness for a sweet causing them to vibrate and hum like the bees.†   (source)
  • "I feel very safe with you," I confessed, mesmerized into telling the truth again.†   (source)
  • The rest of Angela was nowhere near as mesmerizing as her lips.†   (source)
  • "Yessir," I said, mesmerized by his trick.†   (source)
  • I watched Mom play, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • I sat there mesmerized by his self-assurance and skill.†   (source)
  • They mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Dee's fingers moved in the water, the ripples languid and mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • I stared at it, mesmerized, and slowly ran my hand over the top, brushing my fingers over the well-worn leather as tears filled my eyes.†   (source)
  • As he sat mesmerized by the fire and wrapped in its warmth, he prayed, mostly prayers of thanksgiving.†   (source)
  • That was when I became mesmerized by the work of columnists Mike Royko and Jimmy Breslin, admiring them from afar.†   (source)
  • Momentarily I stared, mesmerized by her smile.†   (source)
  • We mesmerize our children in the name of truth into knowing that they are reality.†   (source)
  • Ishmael had sat with him by the Bendix in the living room, and they had both been mesmerized by the urgency Leo Lassen imparted to a battle so many miles away in Seattle, Portland, or Sacramento.†   (source)
  • He found the antenna too powerful, the magic it summoned too mesmerizing, as though he were eating a banquet of limitless food, stuffing himself, stuffing himself, until he felt dazed and sick, and so he had removed or hidden or restricted all but a few applications.†   (source)
  • I watched his hands working, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Dan was mesmerized by the photograph.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," she told Elliot, flashing him a toxic smile that, for reasons beyond me, mesmerized the opposite sex.†   (source)
  • Mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • She apparently felt that her status as Richard's agent created a bond of intimacy between herself and Cass; who, helplessly and miserably mesmerized, and handicapped by the volume of Miss Wales' voice and the razorlike distinctness of her syllables, trotted obediently behind her into the bedroom where coats and hats were to be deposited and where the women could repair their makeup.†   (source)
  • I lean against Bobo's den, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized by the come and go, the sad drift and flow of lives in painful transition, I sat, waiting for an ending.†   (source)
  • A mesmerizing reinterpretation of the dance fads of the '60s—as seen through the Kodachromic lens of the author's childhood in NYC's Barrio—this piece is a riveting and joyful homage to the scratchy, catchy, and soon-to-be-lost tracks of the decade.†   (source)
  • The Augur doesn't break eye contact, seemingly mesmerized by my anger.†   (source)
  • "Actually, I was mesmerized by your arms," Howard noted, referring to the hundreds of shots David had taken.†   (source)
  • I shuddered; against my will I was completely mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Donald Moine, a behavioral psychologist who has written widely on the subject of persuasion, told me to look up Gau because Gau is "mesmerizing."†   (source)
  • Kate had been enthralled by him, riveted, mesmerized during the first few rehearsals.†   (source)
  • I had never seen a woman in labor before and was both mesmerized and horrified to watch Doris enter a zone in which her body and her baby were taking over, regardless of surroundings.†   (source)
  • I tried to stop listening after the first few examples, but he went on and on, and I was mesmerized like a bird in front of a snake.†   (source)
  • Even truck drivers, hardly the most intellectual of people, had radios and tape players to keep from becoming mesmerized.†   (source)
  • She had pushed up the sleeves of her dress, and when it came her turn to handle the cards her white arms all but mesmerized him.†   (source)
  • The effect was mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Kelley cuddled up beside Adam and together they stared at Nathan as he slept, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • I was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • And with his precisely trimmed beard, noble nose, and startling brown eyes rimmed with blue, he cut a mesmerizing figure.†   (source)
  • Vila and the machines he used mesmerized Cristian.†   (source)
  • I'm mesmerized by her ability to hypnotize an entire audience with such powerfully portrayed words.†   (source)
  • I don't know what's so mesmerizing about it but I'm not arguing, because while she's preoccupied with studying the room, I can study her.†   (source)
  • She was mesmerized by who he was.†   (source)
  • The sucking mesmerized me; the warm struggling of the man was. soothing to the tension of my hands; and there came the beating of the drum again, which was the drumbeat of his heart-only this time it beat in perfect rhythm with the drumbeat of my own heart, the two resounding in every fiber of my being, until the beat began to grow slower and slower, so that each was a soft rumble that threatened to go on without end.†   (source)
  • Within its walls were the blond wood furniture, two white cotton dresses, the empty canary cage, the basket with her unfinished knitting, her decks of magic cards, her three-legged table, and the stacks of notebooks in which she had recorded fifty years of life and which much later, in the solitude of the empty house and the silence of the dead and disappeared, I put in order and read, completely mesmerized, so I could construct this story.†   (source)
  • None of the men spoke at all on the drive back through the heavy, mesmerizing quiet blanketing mountains, sea and forests.†   (source)
  • I'm mesmerized by my byline.†   (source)
  • Didn't know why Bill was so mesmerized by the water.†   (source)
  • Hanna was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Roarke watched her, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Both witnesses nodded, at first mesmerized, then repelled at the sight of Panov's grimacing pale face and the tears that began to flow from his wide-open eyes.†   (source)
  • Lourdes is mesmerized by the greenish water, by the sad, sputtering fountain, and a wound inside her reopens.†   (source)
  • This time, however, the tides did not mesmerize, and he was unable to guide his troubled mind into calmer currents.†   (source)
  • Julian, beside her, had caught sight of his father; he seemed mesmerized, as if by a snake.†   (source)
  • I sat in my car for a moment, watching someone in a black helmet ride down one side, then up the other, back and forth, mesmerized, as if someone were swinging a watch on a chain before my eyes.†   (source)
  • "Hmmm," Finn answered, mesmerized by the twitching miniskirt.†   (source)
  • He can't help it if his voice is mesmerizingly sexy.†   (source)
  • A skilled, mesmerizing speaker, she admitted in print.†   (source)
  • We reached what they called "Springville" after driving across miles of flatland, past the mesmerizing blur of furrows recently plowed in soil enriched by periodic flooding of the Brazos River.†   (source)
  • Her beauty has changed, but she is still mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Bridge watched, mesmerized, as Celeste moved from one section of her hair to another, brushing it all the wrong way.†   (source)
  • He had always been mesmerized by newspapers.†   (source)
  • That mesmerizing stage when language develops exponentially from one day to the next, when children are little sponges for language: the Whitshanks missed every bit of it.†   (source)
  • The mesmerized apprentice wasn't even aware of the growing intensity of the fire.†   (source)
  • Erlene Barlowe had an almost mesmerizing Southern drawl and a sweet kind of charm about her.†   (source)
  • But we'd reached that age where the science behind it mattered, where the wonders of the universe needed to be further explained to mesmerize us.†   (source)
  • For over half an hour, I sat mesmerized by the things Homer was doing.†   (source)
  • It was more than a little alarming, this mesmerized appearance.†   (source)
  • Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.†   (source)
  • Uncle Hal, who needed my mother's capital to help fund his projected lumber company, had her mesmerized now with the prospect of "a home of our own" in Baltimore.†   (source)
  • Yet the year was 1969, and Bernie had mesmerized white parents sufficiently so that they were accepting fifteen black children into their homes.†   (source)
  • He held it in front of her, but like one mesmerized, she did not move.†   (source)
  • I'm looking down, at the sidewalk, mesmerized by the women's feet.†   (source)
  • Then he blinked and looked around: He was surrounded by mesmerized girls.†   (source)
  • Thomas couldn't help but stare, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Harry paused to watch them, for the effect was quite mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • The scene was utterly mesmerizing, alarming even to him.†   (source)
  • He seemed simultaneously terrified and mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Slack-jawed, mesmerized, emancipated, he pulls out an imaginary baton, giggles and sways.†   (source)
  • Cinder angled the chip back and forth, mesmerized by how its reflective surface caught Iko's light.†   (source)
  • He was mesmerized by the Doctor is IN Doctor is OUT sign.†   (source)
  • Eragon settled back and listened to the man's mesmerizing voice.†   (source)
  • That was the kind of music that shouldn't have mesmerized a kid.†   (source)
  • For a while, I just close my eyes and listen, mesmerized by the beauty of the song.†   (source)
  • I stood mesmerized by the woman's perfectly manicured red fingernail in my face.†   (source)
  • I stared at her, mesmerized, wondering if I were looking into a mirror of my future.†   (source)
  • The morphling seems mesmerized by Peeta's words.†   (source)
  • We stood at the corner for a while, mesmerized by the displays.†   (source)
  • The water bloomed with exotic, fractal-like patterns, mesmerizing and hypnotic.†   (source)
  • Trudy was mesmerized, repeating the signs and following Mrs. Wilkes's corrections studiously.†   (source)
  • Thomas was dazed, staring at the creature- mesmerized and terrified at the same time.†   (source)
  • She's mesmerized, at least for a minute, and I envy Nathaniel's ability all the more.†   (source)
  • They were mesmerizing in an odd, unpleasant way.†   (source)
  • Sophia turned to study his face, mesmerized by the reflection of firelight in his eyes.†   (source)
  • The colors and shapes and words and pictures are so garish, so abundant, that they are mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • New York, N.Y. U.S.A. He stared at it, transfixed, mesmerized by the letters.†   (source)
  • Travis was mesmerized as she moved toward the bed and playfully pushed him onto his back.†   (source)
  • Walked into the room and stared at the wall, mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, they waded into the sea of color beneath a patchy sky.†   (source)
  • Do, continue with whatever mesmerizing thing you were saying.†   (source)
  • My foster parents sat in front of me totally mesmerized.†   (source)
  • He stood there, mesmerized, for a long time.†   (source)
  • His eyes were so mesmerizing, I completely forgot how to use my brain.†   (source)
  • I looked up at him, mesmerized by that possibility.†   (source)
  • He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret.†   (source)
  • 'They draw me in, mesmerize me, refuse to release me.†   (source)
  • Alessandro was mesmerized by the uneven and halting gait of the condemned men.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, Ronnie hadn't realized someone had taken a seat beside her.†   (source)
  • What he saw was both mesmerizing and not a little frightening.†   (source)
  • They were frozen, mesmerized, absorbing every word, as if in disbelief.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized by d'Anjou's performance, Bourne winced as if struck.†   (source)
  • Kate, almost mesmerized by Miro's recital, asked, "What was your assignment in America?†   (source)
  • Gentlemen gather around the dancers, mesmerized by their sinewy charms.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, the drow watched the silent descent of the huge icicle.†   (source)
  • After I hung up the phone, I stood mesmerized.†   (source)
  • We sit there, pretending to be mesmerized by the flashing lottery sign.†   (source)
  • But we have lived through it, watching in fascination, and now we are mesmerized.†   (source)
  • What followed was mesmerizing in its efficiency.†   (source)
  • Her features are a mesmerizing amalgam of before and after.†   (source)
  • The guard, mesmerized, perhaps sickened by what he had seen, backed away.†   (source)
  • But the drow's second scimitar was out with the first, interweaving in a mesmerizing dance of death.†   (source)
  • The small, bald man was not only garrulously instructive, but in his own way mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • ' Was,' said David, mesmerized by something he could not define.†   (source)
  • He now leaned forward, mesmerized by the bizarre story.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, Jesus!' whispered Alex, mesmerized by the cold, precise elder statesman of covert operations.†   (source)
  • He reassumed the pose of the mesmerized sightseer and listened.†   (source)
  • She had mesmerized the kids by simply tossing around a few lines by Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • The pack mind is mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Peeta and I, on the other hand, are so mesmerizing with our ever-changing coal costumes that most of the other tributes are staring at us.†   (source)
  • The three soldier ants advanced, their ten-foot-long antennae waving and bobbing in a mesmerizing way, trying to distract me from the true danger of their mandibles.†   (source)
  • Geoffrey had led her to Misery's tombstone, and the two of them stood looking down at it, as if mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • Together they sat down at its end and dangled their bare feet in the water, watching the mesmerizing effects of the wind on the surface of the lake.†   (source)
  • Thousands of people stood huddled together in the streets, stretching off into the distance as far as the eye could see, mesmerized by the blaze.†   (source)
  • But the raucous swallows, the woman's droning commands, the ground bass of the machinery mesmerized her.†   (source)
  • What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture—for television is at its most solemnly self-serving and at its mesmerizing best when it is depicting the untimely deaths of the chosen and the golden.†   (source)
  • Although the brands themselves were mesmerizing-artifacts few Illuminati scholars even believed existed-Langdon suddenly realized there had been something else about the box that had ignited a wave of foreboding within.†   (source)
  • " I'm so mesmerized by all that pink, it takes a few seconds to hit me how bad this could turn out for me.†   (source)
  • Holly was mesmerized.†   (source)
  • C#129 CHAPTER 129 Robert Langdon stood mesmerized at the glass portal, absorbing the power of the landscape below him.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized when she said things like "slippery slope," which, behind her lips, exposed the underside of her tongue.†   (source)
  • His golden eyes mesmerized me.†   (source)
  • Blue-lipped and dinner-plate-eyed, they watched, mesmerized by something that they sensed but didn't understand: the absence of caprice in what the policemen did.†   (source)
  • Ron!" he shouted, but the Riddle-Harry was now speaking with Voldemort's voice and Ron was gazing, mesmerized, into its face.†   (source)
  • He was both disgusted and mesmerized as the servant turned the blade toward herself, clutching the handle with both hands.†   (source)
  • At the high point, he mesmerized little Alex Franklin into throwing a snowball into the playground teacher's ear.†   (source)
  • Not bad, just not mesmerizing.†   (source)
  • I'd been there umpteen times with Mother and twice with Elizabeth and Hilly, but I was mesmerized by the vast white marble floors, the miles of hats and gloves and powdered ladies looking so happy, so healthy.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, all of thirteen years old, was mesmerized by this instrument the size of a good strong man.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Voldemort did not speak, but prowled in a circle, and Harry knew that he kept him temporarily mesmerized at bay, held back by the faintest possibility that Harry might indeed know a final secret….†   (source)
  • I found myself mesmerized by the sight.†   (source)
  • A strange man with a mesmerizing voice.†   (source)
  • Her hair swayed down her back in a mesmerizing kind of way, which of course he didn't care about either.†   (source)
  • "This is fine," I agreed, concentrating less on what he was saying and more on the mesmerizing way his lips moved when he spoke.†   (source)
  • Though she seemed mesmerized by the movement of the crank, Thibault could tell she was lost in her memories.†   (source)
  • She paused, mesmerized by the churning and rolling of the water, and when she finally turned her head, she realized his image had left her as well.†   (source)
  • But the flowers, the smell, the movement of the leaves persist, rich, mesmerizing, desolating, infused with grief.†   (source)
  • Matt looked at her, half mesmerized.†   (source)
  • Elijah had a way of making the young children howl with laughter while mesmerizing his older listeners with mystery and intrigue.†   (source)
  • Mark had been staring at the back of the pilot's chair as if something mesmerizing were painted there.†   (source)
  • It was hard not to be mesmerized by the half-squirrel/halfbass creature or the opossum's head grafted onto the body of a chicken.†   (source)
  • Mesmerized, I watched her dreams.†   (source)
  • Rachelle stopped, mesmerized.†   (source)
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