1 I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died.
2 Meg was Amy's confidant and monitor, and by some strange attraction of opposites Jo was gentle Beth's.
3 Neither of these returnings was very pleasant or desirable: no magnet drew me to a given point, increasing in its strength of attraction the nearer I came.
4 In that county there was enough to be seen to occupy the chief of their three weeks; and to Mrs. Gardiner it had a peculiarly strong attraction.
5 His new source of trouble sprang from the not anticipated misfortune of Isabella Linton evincing a sudden and irresistible attraction towards the tolerated guest.
6 He predicted the same fate to attraction, whereof the present learned are such zealous asserters.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII. 7 When I had made this discovery, I went back, in an attraction I could not resist, to a lane by Mrs. Steerforth's, and looked over the corner of the garden wall.
8 "If there was anything on her side at the time, it was nothing but a superficial attraction," pursued Oblonsky.
9 It was just this contrast with her own position that was for Kitty the great attraction of Mademoiselle Varenka.
10 The way in which he had been managing his land revolted him and had lost all attraction for him.
11 She did not know herself why and wherefore, but the arranging of her house had an irresistible attraction for her.
12 I," she thought, "did not keep my attraction for Stiva; he left me for others, and the first woman for whom he betrayed me did not keep him by being always pretty and lively.
13 But Frank had an uncomfortable feeling that Miss Pitty was not the attraction which brought him.
14 Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.
15 She never knew which attraction made him decide.