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hold spellbound (capture full attention)
- There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence.Chapter 3 (39% in)
- He had been always enthralled by the methods of natural science, but the ordinary subject-matter of that science had seemed to him trivial and of no import.Chapter 4 (81% in)
- I am afraid I may frighten the company, frighten or enthrall them.Chapter 5 (63% in)
- I sat in the dingy box absolutely enthralled.Chapter 6 (43% in)
- We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us.Chapter 8 (58% in)
- This taste enthralled him for years, and, indeed, may be said never to have left him.Chapter 11 (42% in)
There are no more uses of "enthrall" in The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version.
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