1 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 2 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 3 He, however, darted not the less quickly toward Milady, yielding to that magnetic attraction which the loadstone exercises over iron.
4 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 5 It seemed as though, by some nameless, interior volition, he would fain have shocked into them the same fiery emotion accumulated within the Leyden jar of his own magnetic life.
6 The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should be.
7 He stood up beside her and smoothed her hair with his soft, magnetic hand.
8 The very contiguity of his enemy, beneath whatever mask the latter might conceal himself, was enough to disturb the magnetic sphere of a being so sensitive as Arthur Dimmesdale.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER 9 Doubtless, there is something magnetic or electric in some of these combinations of occult forces which work for physical life in strange way; and in himself were from the first some great qualities.
10 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. 11 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 12 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.
13 You've no magnetism: you're not a man, you're a machine.
14 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... 15 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.