"Hypnotised" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... solemnly, "she'll never do it—never! Her mind is sot on merridge. I see it all now. She hypnotised me, by golly! I swear she did! That eye of ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... of the spirit into the wilderness—that his other self might live and breathe. One feels the power of this second self especially in certain words that recur over and over again, until the reader is almost hypnotised by their lilting, and finds himself in a kind of sleep. That dreaming personality, with eyes half closed and poppy-decorated hair, could never live in the bondage of the city cage. The spirit must get free, and the longing ...
— Among Famous Books • John Kelman
... seen them going slowly towards the white sickle of the road, Mark very upright, taut muscles held in to his shortened stride; Mamma pathetic and fragile, in her shawl, moving with a stiff, self-hypnotised air. ...
— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair
... to understand your attitude, young man. You appear to be hypnotised, fascinated. You speak of Fantomas as if he were something interesting. It is out of place, to put it mildly," and he turned to the Abbe Sicot. "There, sir, that is the result of this modern education and the state of mind produced in the younger generation ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre
... will look out on the grim things of the hour, and hypnotised by the hour will cry: "See the strength of the British Empire, see our wasted state; your hope is vain." Let him consider this clear truth: peoples endure; empires perish. Where are now the empires of antiquity? And the empires of to-day have the seed of dissolution in them. ...
— Principles of Freedom • Terence J. MacSwiney
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