1 I felt as if an awful charm was framing round and gathering over me: I trembled to hear some fatal word spoken which would at once declare and rivet the spell.
2 When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 3 The lieutenant explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters.
4 But with all their eyes again riveted upon the swart Fedallah and his crew, the inmates of the other boats obeyed not the command.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering. 5 He even suffered their hands to meet, without betraying the least emotion, or varying his riveted attitude of attention.
6 The Indians riveted their eyes on the rocks, and listened with an attention that seemed to turn them into stone.
7 The young man was relieved from the awkwardness of making any further protestations of his own demerits, by an exclamation from Chingachgook, and the attitude of riveted attention assumed by his son.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 8 The Indian gravely raised his paddle, and pointed in the direction in which his own steady look was riveted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 9 As usual, every eye was riveted on his face.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 10 He met everywhere, with eyes riveted on his own, heads erect and nostrils expanded, as if each individual present felt himself able and willing, singly, to redress the wrongs of his race.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 11 Each eye was riveted on the center of that ring, which contained the objects of so much and of so common an interest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 12 A dagger-pointed gaze from without his blackened face was held toward the enemy, but his greater hatred was riveted upon the man, who, not knowing him, had called him a mule driver.
13 Dantes' whole attention was riveted on a man who could thus forget his own misfortunes while occupying himself with the destinies of others.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 14 Here Haidee cast a significant glance at Monte Cristo, whose eyes had been riveted on her countenance during the whole course of her narrative.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 15 The dying man's eyes were all the time riveted on the door, through which he hoped succor would arrive.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 83. The Hand of God.