1 But if Selden's infatuation seemed a fatal necessity, the effect that his name produced shook Gerty's steadfastness with a last pang.
2 It was ridiculous to be flying like an emotional coward from an infatuation his reason had conquered.
3 It was Bertha whose confidence she sought, and who should as eagerly have invited her own; and Bertha, as if in the infatuation of self-destruction, was actually pushing away her rescuing hand.
4 The persistence of the infatuation lent it an aspect of genuineness.
5 For the first time she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman.
6 She was still under the spell of her infatuation.
7 In London he would soon learn to wonder at his infatuation, and be thankful for the right reason in her which had saved him from its evil consequences.
8 Even in the midst of his late infatuation, he had acknowledged Fanny's mental superiority.
9 Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose judgement and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required indulgence afterwards.
10 But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family.
11 That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 12 She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it.
13 I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion.
14 Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to no purpose.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 15 Freddy bows and sits down in the Elizabethan chair, infatuated.