"Spell-bound" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... changed—for the time being at least—Helen's nature. From a frank, open-hearted, loving girl she became suspicious, morose and secretive. The first words she heard held her spell-bound—an unintentional eavesdropper. And what she heard made her determined to appear to her unkind relatives quite as ...
— The Girl from Sunset Ranch - Alone in a Great City • Amy Bell Marlowe
... Clara it was almost literally true. She felt that she was like a spirit moving among these people marooned on this island of the West End of London, all spell-bound by the money of this great roaring city, all enslaved, all amphibious, living between two elements, the actual and the imagined, but in neither, because of the spell that bound them, fully and passionately.... Living in the play she saw Sir Henry ...
— Mummery - A Tale of Three Idealists • Gilbert Cannan
... resolution of kings. His trust in the deepening impression made by the fall of Moscow was fostered by negotiations begun by Kutusoff for the very purpose of delaying the French retreat. For five weeks Napoleon remained at Moscow as if spell-bound, unable to convince himself of his powerlessness to break Alexander's determination, unable to face a retreat which would display to all Europe the failure of his arms and the termination of his career of victory. At length the approach of winter forced ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... us that he had aged ten years—folks in Philadelphia would hardly know him; but it was all worth it. The details which he embroidered and dwelt upon were ghastly. He was particularly impressed with having seen a man with his nose off. His description held us horrified and spell-bound. ...
— The Glory of the Trenches • Coningsby Dawson
... more questions, but take me quickly away. I am spell-bound here, and I dare not trust myself to stay ...
— Vandrad the Viking - The Feud and the Spell • J. Storer Clouston
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