Portuguese
mesmerismo An entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations.
Synonyms
Examples for "bewitchery"
Examples for "bewitchery"
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Under its lordly bewitchery, Erastianism prevails in the Established Churches of the kingdom.
2
Or is it a 'bewitchery'?
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The existence of animal magnetism must stand or fall on this test.
2
Through the aid rendered by Braid, animal magnetism blossomed into a science.
3
I've heard of the process of magnetism, but never animal magnetism.
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Or maybe, she thought, it is just his animal magnetism that excites me.
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But little attention is paid to the training of animal magnetism.
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Was all this then but a seeming and a beguilement?'
2
You're back in the youth of the race-backin the beguilement of the young world.
3
There was no beguilement, no charm or enchantment.
4
An interesting couple for the beguilement of a voyage: she so beautifully moderates his irascible incisiveness!
5
Ministers in turn have defensively adopted the arts of beguilement, varied by an exercise of the police.
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He made himself comfortable with morning papers and a novel-notone of Mr. Stanhope's-andbegan to seek beguilement.
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Never for another's dictation or beguilement.
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Then followed much similar feminine beguilement; the faculty for which seems to be rather increased by the Jordan bath.
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The few sous spent upon such beguilement of long winter nights were most likely economized by some little deprivation.
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There are ways and ways of controverting masculine obstinancy, and evidently life had taught Mrs. Pratt the efficacy of beguilement.
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When she lifts her gaze again it's full of beguilement, as though Rodrigo might be a youth susceptible to such games.
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He had so far been the victim of the sex, and in his own small way had suffered scorn and beguilement enough.
13
It was at Coney Island, that astonishing permanent and magnified Earl's Court Exhibition, summer Blackpool and August-Bank-Holiday-Hampstead-Heath, which New York supports for its beguilement.
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Wullahy, thrice have I been saluted King; I whom fate selecteth for the shaving of Shagpat, and till now it was a beguilement, all emptiness.'
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She had long since ceased dressing consciously for her husband, and dressing for other women was more a matter of perfect detail than attempted beguilement.
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An hour glass, a pepper mill, a compass, an inkstand, stand for utility, and quaint and twisted musical instruments and a backgammon board for beguilement.