"Hypnotized" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... finds himself swept out of himself at last by the huge undertow of crowds. Scarcely a season but his playing has become worn down at the end of it into shrieks and hushes. Have I not watched him at the end of a tour, when, one audience after the other, those huge Svengalis had hypnotized him—thundering his very subtleties at them, hour after hour, in Carnegie Hall? One could only wonder what had happened, sit by helplessly, watch the crowd—thousands of headlong human beings lunging their ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee
... in Willie. "I shouldn't call bobbin' up an' down in one spot fur two mortal hours lingerin'. I'd call it nearer bein' hypnotized." ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... taken before the Paris tribunal charged with stealing a blanket. She pleaded that she was under the influence of another person and could not help herself. In prison it was found that she was in a hypnotized condition, and acted readily under the commands of others, doing anything that was told her. She was examined by a commission of Chacrot, Brouardel, and Mollett, who reported that this condition came from the use of morphia, suffering, and hunger; that these suggestions from ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 - Volume 1, Number 1 • Various
... least further hesitation he called Hafis and the camel, spoke to them in Arabic, and then stood ready to help Tamara up. She seemed hypnotized, when she was settled in the high saddle. She began to realize that she was going into the unknown with a perfect stranger, but she did not think ...
— His Hour • Elinor Glyn
... on the bed, and her eyes assumed the expression of those that see inward—Jennie stared at her, hypnotized, breathless. ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
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