1 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.
2 This magnet is sustained by a very strong axle of adamant passing through its middle, upon which it plays, and is poised so exactly that the weakest hand can turn it.
3 Upon placing the magnet erect, with its attracting end towards the earth, the island descends; but when the repelling extremity points downwards, the island mounts directly upwards.
4 When the position of the stone is oblique, the motion of the island is so too: for in this magnet, the forces always act in lines parallel to its direction.
5 Arobin caught the contagion of excitement which drew him to Edna like a magnet.
6 Slowly, slowly the great house drew him, as a magnet.
7 It is magnetism, she says, and when she dreams a thing it is sure to happen, she assures me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects. 8 If the minister's voice had not kept her there, there would, nevertheless, have been an inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 9 But as ever before, the pagan harpooneers remained almost wholly unimpressed; or if impressed, it was only with a certain magnetism shot into their congenial hearts from inflexible Ahab's.
10 You've no magnetism: you're not a man, you're a machine.
11 There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius wished.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HA... 12 He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant magnetic action.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 13 The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION 14 He, however, darted not the less quickly toward Milady, yielding to that magnetic attraction which the loadstone exercises over iron.
15 She gave so much vehemence, such magnetic eloquence to this exclamation, that Felton in spite of himself advanced some steps into the room.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY