1 She watched the swell of his powerful shoulders against the cloth with a fascination that was disturbing, a little frightening.
2 When the tea came he watched her in silent fascination while her hands flitted above the tray, looking miraculously fine and slender in contrast to the coarse china and lumpy bread.
3 The very slowness and hesitancy of the effect increased its fascination: it was delicious to lean over and look down into the dim abysses of unconsciousness.
4 Her face had a kind of fascination for me: it was the very colour and shape of anger.
5 He had a strange fascination for me, and I invited him to call on me.
6 This spectacle seemed to paralyze them, overcome them with a fatal fascination.
7 As by a fascination, every eye was now directed to the glaring greenish-gray eye of Simon.
8 It was one of those collections of stories of bloody murders, ghostly legends, and supernatural visitations, which, coarsely got up and illustrated, have a strange fascination for one who once begins to read them.
9 Yet the unscrupulousness of Michaelis had a certain fascination for her.
10 As a rule, the word Budmouth meant fascination on Egdon.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 11 She began to envy those pirouetters, to hunger for the hope and happiness which the fascination of the dance seemed to engender within them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 12 The pale ray of evening lent a fascination to the experience.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 13 The promise of adventure had always a fascination for me, and I was complimented by the words of Holmes and by the eagerness with which the baronet hailed me as a companion.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads 14 Holmes said little more, but the picture of the old roysterer seemed to have a fascination for him, and his eyes were continually fixed upon it during supper.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets 15 And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him.