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  • But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman. From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
  • Zack, all beaming blondness and supersocial to the core, charmed all the guests, crawling on the lawn and the deck, raising his arms to ask people to pick him up. Falling Apart in One Piece
  • No one could fail to be charmed by the magic of this beautiful city.
  • By this point in their charmed lives, the thirtysomething mom and dad characters had stopped wearing saris and polyester pants and now dressed, inexplicably, for tennis: picture a darker, paunchier Bjorn Borg, in those snug shorts of the era, but with a bushy mustache and too many wristbands. Bollywood's NRI Reel Finally Gets Real
  • I think she was a little gauche, thoroughly charmed by the literary excitement of it all, and didn't realise he was maybe a little more amorous than she gave him credit for.
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  • Patrick never, like the Pied Piper, charmed actual snakes into mass suicide so the Irish people wouldn't ever have to worry about them again -- but he did "rid" the island of the snake-tattooed Druids, in a way. Chris Weigant: Saint Patrick and the Snakes
  • Arthur reckoned with some justification that he had had ‘a charmed life.’
  • Charmed by his obliqueness - ‘doing’ and ‘getting’ as euphemisms for fundraising and boondoggling - I told him the name of my book.
  • People have been delighted by the response to their films, charmed by the courtesy and enthusiasm of the festival staff.
  • No one could fail to be charmed by the magic of this beautiful city.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • The verve of the author's performance can make it hard to see the whole picture clearly; in reading it I felt almost as if I were being charmed by a bounder; but is he a bounder?
  • It sounds like a charmed life, a purely decorative existence.
  • Although not as polished as the two professional actors flanking her, Jann Arden charmed the audience from the outset by letting her personality shine through her performance.
  • No American author had ever dreamed of such ovation before: an ovation not due to any incisive thought, not due to any novelty of his subject-matter, -- but due to the fact that a man born overseas had suddenly appeared among British writers, who could lay hold upon their own resources of sentiment, and inwrap it in language which charmed them by its grace and provoked them by its purity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
  • The beautiful lakeside towns of Lago di Garda have charmed people for centuries.
  • In many ways he had a charmed life: springing from a humble background in Edwardian Cornwall, he gained a coveted scholarship to Oxford, where he had a glittering early career.
  • ‘People seem quite charmed by the idea of turning travel into something playful,’ says its Melbourne-based author, Rachael Antony.
  • I was similarly uncharmed by the promising sounding mini ice-cream sandwiches, which seemed overembellished and not freshly made.
  • These critics often live comparatively charmed lives in security and comfort. The Sun
  • The richness and elegance of the church took me all "aback;" it was so entirely different from anything I had seen, that it was difficult to decide whether I was most charmed by its novelty or its beauty. Views a-foot
  • These critics often live comparatively charmed lives in security and comfort. The Sun
  • Is there a guarantee that the highest achievers among you will have charmed lives, with continued success and prosperity?
  • Schweitzer's discussion of coal liquefaction on Thursday just about charmed the pants off Beck, who was particularly struck by Schweitzer's "doggone" terminology and used it half-a-dozen times in the next 5 or 10 minutes. Archive 2005-10-01
  • This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression. PodCastle » 2010 » February
  • In "Love Song", he puts a Harry Chapinesque melody with lyrics describing a girl, who despite having a perfectly charmed upbringing is still a bitch. Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: T-Post, Client 9 and More
  • He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers: for the squire, being charmed with the power of punishing Black The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • Still charmed, when Pentheus saw this, he supposed the whole place was burning.
  • Do you recall the distraught lady in _Ruddigore_, who was always charmed into silence by the mystic word "Basingstoke"? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917
  • Set in the showbiz circuit of the 1940s, it charmed critics with its corny jokes.
  • This thought might have occurred to Jack, but he, too, seems to have led a charmed life.
  • IM NOT THOUGH! oh. and lyssa charmed the people, and switched my name. Katebell Diary Entry
  • Charmed with the soothing tones, he endeavoured to reproduce them himself, and after cutting seven of the reeds of unequal length, he joined them together, and succeeded in producing the pipe, which he called the syrinx, in memory of his lost love. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
  • In that charmed circle he was as overflowingly happy as if he had been admitted to the company of the gods. Mark Twain: A Biography
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • Fish splashed in small pools and the sweet scent of the river hurrying by charmed our days.
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  • No family leads a charmed life for long. Positive Parent Power
  • ‘People are usually charmed by it,’ says McCrone.
  • I tried to amuse him with my astounding mindlessness and my sad, fading It-girl proclivities, but he didn't seem as charmed as I would have liked. With No One as Witness
  • In her bearing, speech and manner, Medea, then is no longer the supernatural being who charmed Jason into marrying her, but a cold, calculating woman, her mind set at a single purpose.
  • When the flash bulbs began popping, one wondered who was more charmed - the children, the artiste or the cameras.
  • Saif Ali Khan is an actor who has both cajoled and charmed moviegoers into accepting a different kind of hero.
  • The Caliph was charmed with them and drank thereto, albeit he was no confirmed wine-bibber, saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • He moves to France and in his eighties finds himself lacking in objects but filled with the knowledge he has had a charmed life.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • The five artists played this splendid score with precision, marvelously pure intonation, and an idiomatic fluency that alternately charmed and astounded!
  • the emcee charmed the guests with his opening speech
  • We did little to help him and, charmed by McGrath's niceness, we protected him and allowed him to get away with it.
  • These enemies are the whole world outside the charmed circle of the elect.
  • It seems that the hierarchy of corporate America, however, is not charmed by all this cultural richness and prefers to have its up-and-comers speak plain-vanilla, accentless English.
  • She snorkelled with hippopotamuses and charmed snakes out of thorn trees for the camera. Times, Sunday Times
  • Charmed hadrons are produced by the interaction of high energy photons with a segmented beryllium oxide target.
  • He's superficially lovable, in that Brodkin makes him a cheery as well as cheeky chappie, confident that the woman in the front row will be charmed to hear he'd like to "cum on [her] tits". Lee Nelson's Well Good Tour – review
  • Sexual mischief was again on the menu with a delightful excerpt from Don Giovanni, as Ewan Taylor charmed devilishly as Mozart's willingly damned Lothario.
  • The drummer of the band, Matthew, was a dirty blonde with a crooked smile that charmed most people he met.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • The fear that the whole enterprise was at risk from the blunders of some one outside the charmed circle.
  • He charmed people with his sweetness, humour and loyalty.
  • He acknowledges that his government led ‘a charmed life’ in its first term, which implies that he was rather lucky not be found out.
  • I am particularly charmed with the devotion and zeal of my companions, and with the holy communings in which we pass our days. 08/01/2003 - 09/01/2003
  • Mr. Bantling, who was of rather a slow and a discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him by the influence of a shining, challenging eye and a kind of bandbox freshness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted. The Portrait of a Lady
  • But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman. From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
  • Their pop sensibility, spangly make-up and subversiveness bemused, charmed and totally won me over.
  • He had laughed, he had charmed me, almost bewitched me.
  • Paxton's fairy palace of glass and iron, erected in Hyde Park, and canopying in its glittering spaces the untouched, majestic elms of that national pleasure-ground as well as the varied treasures of industrial and artistic achievement brought from every quarter of the globe, divided the charmed astonishment of foreign spectators with the absolute orderliness of the myriads who thronged it and crowded all its approaches on the great opening day. Great Britain and Her Queen
  • The wicked old woman charmed the princess with magic words.
  • She was charmed to find your opinion agreed with her own, and settled that we should go to town to-morrow morning: and a chaise is actually ordered to be here by one o'clock. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
  • Instead, in November 1989 Binoche et Godeau, of Paris, stepped into the charmed circle.
  • Cecilia, charmed at this unhoped for success, was making further enquiries into what had passed, when Mrs Hill, in a low voice, said, Cecilia
  • And he always rode a horse which charmed good judges of what a park nag should be; — not a prancing, restless, giggling, sideway-going, useless garran, but an animal well made, well bitted, with perfect paces, on whom a rider if it pleased him could be as quiet as a statue in a monument. The Prime Minister
  • Her neighbors are equally charmed by the handsome garden that reflects the area's easygoing lifestyle.
  • Is there a guarantee that the highest achievers among you will have charmed lives, with continued success and prosperity?
  • Sears charmed the audience with her magnetic personality and shared the motivation behind her chosen career path.
  • I think she could have absolutely charmed that jury, totally and completely.
  • Shoppers, like me, flocked to the stall, charmed by the man in the garlic gloriole, whose sunny disposition seemed fueled by the alliaceous aura above. French Word-A-Day:
  • As chatty and chummy as one of his famous monologues, the book celebrates an unusually charmed life in a profession more noted for its high incidence of ego and angst, burnout and heartache.
  • It was weeks before they realized that the young man who had charmed them all was a fraud.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • Last night we had the unexpected bonus of Trudie Styler popping in to play Mrs Thrale, who charmed the normally unsusceptible hero. A Dish of Tea With Dr Johnson – review
  • The wicked old woman charmed the princess with magic words.
  • Yet I was the one leading a charmed life while she suffered.
  • Nightfall is a work of striking juxtapositions and tones that by picture end, come off like an unforgettably disarming person -- you're charmed, discombobulated, even slightly disturbed, and you're not sure what to make of it all. Kim Morgan: For the Love of (Film Noir): Nightfall
  • The supersizing trend highlights the charmed nature of our peaceful, plentiful 21st-century existence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • M.nsieur le M.rquis," said M. Gandrin, glancing at the card and the introductory note from M. Hebert, which Alain had sent in, and which lay on the 'secretaire' beside heaps of letters nicely arranged and labelled, "charmed to make the honour of your acquaintance; just arrived at Paris? The Parisians — Complete
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • She had not realised they could reach out from the charmed circle of themselves.
  • I wanted to be alone, to collapse in a dark room to groan and flatulate, but she had charmed two men into loaning us their bikes and we rode to her place in Schöneberg in the west of town as dawn was breaking. Potsdamer Strasse
  • I was charmed with her beauty.
  • The sheriff, charmed by her madcap volubility, and seeing by the GI gear packed and waiting by the door that she really was heading overseas to serve her country, allowed her to catch her flight. A Covert Affair
  • So why is it that some people seem to live charmed lives, full of lucky breaks and serendipitous chance encounters, while others experience one disaster after another?
  • She says her good looks and flirtatious behaviour charmed the police waiting at the hospital. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was once like you, charmed by gap-toothed kids and lured by the chance to erase the blackboard whenever I wanted. Carolyn Bucior: Lesson: Substitute Teaching's 'F' -- What Gwyneth and Cameron Can Teach Education Experts
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • All the charmed, fabular beasts caught as if under a spell. Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • He was also a man of frightening intelligence and charisma, who charmed virtually everyone he met.
  • Instead, Tadpole does ultimately reveal a subtle, witty prince of a film to be charmed by.
  • The goal is to figure out why some people seem to lead a charmed life while others do not.
  • She is a grateful enthusiast who believes she leads a charmed life, yet she is brave, seeking out dark roles wherever she can, and usually investing the seemingly frothy parts with a psychotic edge.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • It was the charismatic crowd-pleaser who charmed the British public and won two massive election victories for a Labour Party that had almost given up hope of ever seeing power again.
  • Face to face with the piquant personality that had charmed de Gaulle, he was charmed as well.
  • Colin Farrell's reputation as a bad boy will climb several notches after the blistering one-two delivery of Intermission's opening sequence in which a shop assistant is charmed and then floored by Farrell's two-fisted thug.
  • He had laughed, he had charmed me, almost bewitched me.
  • Some of my ancestors are buried in the kirkyard of Cawdor Kirk, shown in a picture that does not come from A Charmed Life. 2008 March 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • We were charmed by his boyish manner.
  • His life was not the charmed existence that many may presume, and the struggles were at times overwhelming. CELEBRATING SECOMBE: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe
  • The properties of charmed baryons are complicated but orderly and comprehensible.
  • The singer charmed her listeners with her sweet voice.
  • Despite a mystifying listlessness of manner, so strange in a girl of fifteen, she charmed him.
  • Too English for the cosmopolitans, too traditional for the modernists, too religious for the secular and too dowdy for the jet set, the Three Choirs now finds it hard to claim a place in the charmed circle.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • With his trousers hoisted slightly too high above his waist, long grey hair grazing his collar and a roguish glint in his eye, he charmed us all instantly with a combination of naivety and directness.
  • In many ways he had a charmed life: springing from a humble background in Edwardian Cornwall, he gained a coveted scholarship to Oxford, where he had a glittering early career.
  • I am for some reason charmed by the spelling in this poem -- words like "kist," "soveran" and "emprisoned" are lovely examples of the indifferent spelling practices of the 19th century. Archive 2008-08-01
  • It was okay though, my ice-cream was definitely charmed with the sweet aroma and light flavor of elderflower cordial, no matter how it was innocently-looking as if it had been ordinary vanilla ice cream.
  • Despite the handwringing about our trivial, celebrity-obsessed culture, voters seem more worried by Cameron's "swingeing" cuts to their jobs and services, or the threat of him tipping the country into a double-dip recession than they are charmed by his silky warmth on Woman's Hour. The Guardian World News
  • Owen's anxieties never quite leave him, despite his charmed, only-child existence.
  • The series charmed critics and won awards but failed to score big ratings. Times, Sunday Times
  • The novel's central motif comes from the tale of Orpheus, the great musician of Greek mythology, who charmed his way into the underworld and begged the gods with music to bring his wife back to life. Richard Harvell's novel about 18th-century opera, "The Bells"
  • She couldn't help but be charmed by his chivalrous attitude, even if it was too late and grossly misplaced. T2©: RISING STORM
  • Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an “amorist”, wore his hair in two becoming plaits a la Marguerite. When the Sleeper Wakes
  • He even charmed Mrs Prichard, carrying her shopping and flirting with her, though she's 83.
  • She charmed him into giving her all his money
  • Then while gazing at her tear streaked face he saw her chin quiver and his heart was charmed by this small wisp of a lass, until, that is, he looked at what she held in her hands.
  • She charmed her listeners with her sweet voice.
  • He has aged remarkably well, his manic oddness (which I have always been utterly charmed by) muted by experience and dry wit.
  • And he always rode a horse which charmed good judges of what a park nag should be; -- not a prancing, restless, giggling, sideway-going, useless garran, but an animal well made, well bitted, with perfect paces, on whom a rider if it pleased him could be as quiet as a statue on a monument. The Prime Minister
  • He was charmed by her beauty and wit.
  • He has come a long way since, leading a seemingly charmed life. Times, Sunday Times
  • And strange, but Alroy was relieved by having given way to his emotion, and, charmed with the fondness of the faithful horse, he leant down and took water, and threw it over its feet to cool them, and wiped the foam from its face, and washed it, and the horse again neighed. Chapter 1 - Part II
  • It seemed as if he had a charmed life; nothing bad ever happened to him.
  • But I also could not help but be charmed by the book as a whole.
  • Charmed by his chutzpah and mile-wide smile, she gave him her number.
  • This may sound ethereal, but Conran - who is well into his forties, but looks unbelievably boyish - displays a very real sense of the responsibilities that come with living a charmed life.
  • Already famous as the inventor of the lightning conductor, his homespun philosophizing and simple style charmed the world of the Court and the intellectual salons alike.
  • He and my mother really hit it off, and when they were comparing reading taste, he charmed her by pronouncing Barth's prose "scrumptious". Cat Rambo
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • He charmed the man, whom many thought was going to conduct an investigation that would lead to the President's impeachment.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • When he visited us in Delhi, I was immediately charmed by his grace, civility and intellectual sensitivity.
  • The spoilt brats born in the 1950s have lived a charmed life.
  • The professor and his group study the decay of charmed mesons.
  • This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression. PodCastle » PodCastle 89: The Queen’s Triplets
  • Show me the merit whereby you have charmed these persons, and I also will esteem you.
  • They believe, many of them, that they are fated, or charmed, or destined to do the things they do.
  • She has cajoled, charmed, nagged and ranted to get her way for her son. Times, Sunday Times
  • They sometimes meet heroes, as they met Helgi in the Eddic Lay (Helgi and Sigrun Lay), and help or begift them; they prepare the magic broth for Balder, are charmed with Hother's lute-playing, and bestow on him a belt of victory and a girdle of splendour, and prophesy things to come. The Danish History, Books I-IX
  • For anyone who has ever dreamed of working in the music industry, it seems that she has led a charmed life, winning the top jobs and having an ‘access all areas’ pass in her handbag at all times.
  • How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)
  • He did not capitalise on his charmed life. The Sun
  • But everyone is likely to be charmed by what they see when they step inside Ethiopic. A different take on Ethiopian For starters, it's in the Atlas District
  • Do not these words float in airy waves, until the sense is charmed and lulled into delicious reverie, as by the Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
  • The very famous and ancient Anglo-Saxon language, whose citadel is supposed to be confined to the charmed circle over which Bow Bells presides, is just about to conquer the continent of Australia, and I am inclined to think that the people who are fighting against it are fighting against fate. Australian Politics
  • He charmed the judges the way a boulevardier charms wealthy tourists.
  • On the eve of the competition, journalists were charmed by her childishly serious air.
  • He has led a charmed life, but is none the worse for it.
  • His name was Marc Saison, and to hear it pronounced from his own delicately full lips gave it such sweet melody it charmed one's ears.
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  • They are completely charmed by his innocence, yet contact with the child curiously produces havoc.
  • The sole fact that I can spot the problems of a patriarchal society when watching bunraku is proof that I am experiencing the same problems today, and that I am not free from them," says Ms. Miura, who has written a bestselling novel about the backstage world of bunraku and a guidebook for novices called "Charmed with Bunraku. Puppet Love
  • Slim turbaned Indians blew through long pipes of reed or brass and charmed-or feigned to charm-great hooded snakes and horrible horned adders.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • Saint Austin erected a _cross_ and _altar_, whereon he offered the _holy eucharist_, by which he countercharmed those hellish fiends, and broke their haunts. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827
  • And the tales of the fabled and fabulous Indian warriors, princes and potentates must have charmed his ears whilst he was sojourning and fashioning his future in those hostile, unsettled kingdoms and principalities that lay in his way.
  • You should go right ahead and marry anybody you want to because in a certain way, yours is a charmed life.
  • His wife charmed him into buying her a fur coat.
  • Over 16-course Chinese dinners, Teguh Ganda charmed investors with stories of his humble college education in China during the Cultural Revolution and his days working in a railroad switchyard.
  • Mr. Bantling, who was of a rather slow and discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him with the spectacle of a brilliant eye and a kind of bandbox neatness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted. Chapter XX
  • When she had made an end of combing it, she plaited my tresses, and my beauty and loveliness charmed her; so she bent over me and kissed my cheek. 334 At that moment he came in unawares, and, seeing the girl kiss my cheek, straightways turned away in anger, vowing eternal-separation and repeating these two couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • I was charmed with the scenery, consisting of fertile fields, rich woods, the ever-winding Thames and undulating mammillated hills, covered with verdure. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2
  • In a way it's wonderful--you are alone in your head with beautiful music in stereophonic glory--or you can listen to every breath William Faulkner makes as he reads from A Light in August my favorite Faulkner was his "potboiler," as he called it, Sanctuary; and the novel of his that first charmed me was Mosquitos. NOISE!!!!!
  • Branson, whose derring-do and orthodontic architecture has charmed a million housewives, still presents himself as the youthful whizz-kid, although he is 50 this summer.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • A songwriter needn't be a literary lion but in this case, the lack of a back story, esoteric insight, charmed charisma, or soothsayer actualization renders them, more or less, a solid bar band with a great list of influences.
  • I find it hard not to be charmed by such a style, and in a book like this it is more than usually welcome.
  • An old horse-doctor," they would say, "who charmed us against arrow poison. The Bull From The Sea
  • No family leads a charmed life for long. Positive Parent Power
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • He's so sunny and earnest that it's a toss-up whether to be charmed or vaguely nauseous.
  • Not only was he craving closeness to the beach, he was charmed by the studio's location set in the historic area of trendy Fort Lauderdale.
  • Audiences were also charmed by the elegance of the performers, often young unmarried dashing men.
  • Charmed by the bull's comeliness, Europa and her handmaidens deck him with flowers.
  • DiFranco charmed the audience with her feisty spirit.
  • She had a charmed life and was always aware of her privileges, helping less fortunate people where she could.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • Each clique treated the establishment as its club and took no notice at all of anyone outside the charmed circle.
  • Could we invite before us the departed Channing, Mayo, Weare, and gaze for one little moment at the effulgence of virtue and goodness that made them the charmed centers of their wide circles of influence and usefulness, how mean should we feel that we ever thought so much of our pretty forms and faces, and so little of that Beauty which is a fadeless power and a glorious life in the soul! Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanh
  • The unsung Victorian adventurer hacked, bullied and charmed his way through uncharted jungle to help establish British colonial rule in Burma.
  • We should be charmed, wined, welcomed, even here, in the stinking belly of the ship! ANTI-ICE
  • He had the looks, the magnetic charmed personality, access to money, and the power to take whatever he wanted, often without question or repercussion.
  • Universally denounced by critics, the director's tale of two teenagers in love in the Camargue charmed and delighted untold thousands.
  • He was charmed by her beauty and vivacity.
  • Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
  • Wisdom will teach us to enchant the serpent we are to contend with, rather than think to out-hiss it (v. 11): The serpent will bite if he be not by singing and music charmed and enchanted, against which therefore he stops his ears (Ps.lviii. 4, 5); and a babbler is no better to all those who enter the lists with him, who therefore must not think by dint of words to out-talk him, but be prudent management to enchant him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Ferry, who recently thrilled music lovers by re-forming Roxy Music, is just one of the many to be charmed.

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