Use attracted in a sentence
Sentences starting with attracted
- Attracted by the sound of the violin, he stayed his steps and smiled scornfully. [11]
Sentences ending with attracted
- Was Mr. Henderson the sort of man to whom such a woman would be attracted? [4]
- They had sat side by side at a tournament, and, recognising each other as Swiss-born by the sharp sound of the letters "ch" and the pronunciation of other words, were mutually attracted. [10]
- This frenzied fight in the air, such as had never before been seen, gave rise to the wildest delight, for it led the eye, which was wont in this place to gaze downward, in a direction in which it had never yet been attracted. [10]
- My curiosity is excited everywhere, and my interest awakened, but my warm love of the beautiful feels itself in no way attracted. [10]
- Wilhelm's attention was attracted. [10]
- At length Gaston's attention was attracted. [11]
- He stood still as he gazed, and remained so for a moment after she had gone; then he seemed to recover himself, and started, as I thought, almost guiltily, when he saw that my attention was attracted. [11]
Short sentences using attracted
- The hand attracted me. [11]
- This discourse attracted him. [10]
- Heliodora attracted him but little. [10]
- Of course you attracted me. [9]
- The daughter specially attracted me. [10]
- It attracted closer attention. [13]
More example sentences with the word attracted in them
- He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
- It was this yearning that attracted Hodder, who found in it a deep pathos. [9]
- Charles Francis Adams wrote, "It attracted my attention because it so exactly expresses the views I have myself all along entertained. [5]
- Such a woman would have attracted Harry at any time, but only a woman with a cool brain and exquisite art could have made him lose his head in this way; for Harry thought himself a man of the world. [5]
- But the Italian who, as she rode by, had been attracted by the noble features of the aged man, whose eyes still sparkled with youthful enthusiasm, gazed at him enquiringly. [10]
- Middendorf attracted those who saw, Langethal those who heard him, and the confidence he inspired was even more lasting than that aroused by Middendorf. [10]
- The little bell, which, summoned all the occupants of the monastery, was heard at an unusual hour, and about vespers the sound of sleigh-bells attracted him to the window. [10]
- The brilliant illumination which usually shone through the darkness would have attracted the attention of the Alexandrians. [10]
- The caleche in which Prince Andrew was being taken attracted Sonya's attention as it passed the front porch. [2]
- Her features, too, were regular and beautiful, and she would have attracted attention by her loveliness among a multitude. [10]
- These perfect creatures were perhaps as fine as the famous team of golden bays belonging to Iphicrates, which so often had proved victorious; but the agitatores, or drivers, attracted even more interest than the horses. [10]
- But these sounds were hardly heard in comparison with the noise of the firing outside the town and attracted little attention from the inhabitants. [2]
- The Alexandrian populace were accustomed to see much that was strange in the busy streets of their crowded city; but this vehicle attracted every eye, and excited astonishment, admiration and mirth, wherever it appeared, and not unfrequently the bitterest ridicule. [10]
- Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
- The young sculptor was strongly attracted by this commanding personage. [10]
- And yet there was in him something which attracted her; nay, and it nettled her that he should forget her presence. [10]
- But the lad was crowded so closely into his hiding-place, that he could not spring to the little one's aid, and his attention was attracted to a new sight, as Janus Dousa appeared on horseback. [10]
- At Genoa there was a delightful society, and Irving seems to have been more attracted by that than by the historical curiosities. [4]
- Certain of its valleys produced no end of hay, and this attracted small colonies of Mormon stock-raisers and farmers to them. [5]
- The danger attracted us, but we promptly chose the hill road on account of the views, for we were weary of the limited valley prospects. [4]
- We were bound up the Niederwald, the mountain opposite Bingen, whose noble crown of forest attracted us. [4]
- But I used to think that if Irene, attracted by his many admirable qualities, should become his wife, and that if afterwards the Prince should appear and waken the slumbering woman's heart in her, what a tragedy would ensue. [4]
- This impartial testimony to the superior qualities of the establishment and its head attracted a number of applicants for admission, and a couple of new boarders made a brief appearance at the table. [6]
- Everything attracted him to the Arabs! [10]
- She was permitted to listen only, and she was most strongly attracted to the very places where she might expect to hear rebellious words and proposals. [10]
- This attracted men to him personally, and besides he found, as Bismarck did, that it was more serviceable to him than lying, for the crafty world usually banks upon insincerity and indirectness. [4]
- He gave this to her, and pointed to a carved cabinet opposite his bed, one of those that had so attracted my curious eyes and set me wondering as to what it might contain. [6]
- Divine honours are to be paid to some newly attracted hero of the intellect. [10]
- About the same time the son of the inventor, Mr. Benjamin Douglass Perkins, carried them to London, where they soon attracted attention. [6]
- With two or three exceptions he copies none of those devotional poems which have attracted devout souls.--His poetical sympathies are shown in the fact that one third of the selections are from the seventeenth century. [6]
- But, better than this, the book had attracted the attention of many lovers of literature. [4]
- Stafford reflected that this was always her way: wherever she went she attracted attention, drew interest, magnetized the onlooker. [11]
- The attention of this great scholar and influential man had been attracted by Brugsch's first Egyptological works, which he had commenced before he left school, and his keen eye recognized their value as well as the genius of their author. [10]
- The second or third repetition of his name attracted the old man's attention. [12]
- I can hardly think Gordon had ever looked at his figures, though he names their author, when he wrote the captious and sneering article which attracted so much attention in the pages of the "Edinburgh Review. [3]
- In murky London they attracted little notice; but when their hired guide left them at the outskirts, and they got away upon the highway towards the Court, cottagers stood gaping. [11]
- The attention that these audacious satires of the theater, the actors, and their audience attracted is evidence of the literary poverty of the period. [4]
- Walking back toward the Yard my attention was attracted by a slowly approaching cab whose occupants were disturbing the quiet of the night with song. [9]
- But at last the word "circumstance," casually dropped, in the course of conversation, attracted his attention and brought an eager look into his countenance. [5]
- Who had given the regent, to whom nothing attracted her, the right to dispose of her as though she were a chattel or her captive? [10]
- This is because the newspaper has become more profitable, and is able to pay for talent, and has attracted to it educated young men. [4]
- Besides, it attracted the new head-master's attention to my poetical tastes, for a number of verses had been left by mistake in an exercise-book. [10]
- The deliberation of the man, who appeared to be an old traveler, though probably not more than thirty years of age, attracted Irene's attention, and she could not help hearing the dialogue that followed. [4]
- Georg was like the magnetic mountain, that attracted her, and which she must avoid to save the vessel from sinking. [10]
- She called out the frankest part of him; she opened the doors of his nature; she attracted confidence as the sun does the sunflower. [11]
- It was not the confessional that attracted her, that was sure; perhaps not altogether the service, though that was soothing in certain moods; but it was the noble personality of Father Damon. [4]
- I was increasing the chances against myself all the time, by feeling a secret bitterness against Lem for having attracted this fatal attention to me, but I could not help it--this sinful thought persisted in infesting my breast in spite of me. [5]
- A man on the box-seat, attracted at first by the uncommon horses and their trappings, caught Belward's eyes. [11]
- Dr. Ebers attracted the attention of the learned world by his treatise on Egypt and the Book of Moses, which brought him a professorship at his university, Gottingen, in 1864, the year following the close of this autobiography. [10]
- Its brilliancy attracted the attention of a devious youth, who dashed his fist through the glass and upset my modest luminary. [3]
- It is conceivable that two hermaphrodites, attracted by each other's greater beauty, might unite and leave offspring which would inherit their parents' greater beauty. [1]
- He was glad that she attracted him so little, for at least she would scarcely make the early departure to the Biamite, which he considered his duty, a difficult task. [10]
- It deserves notice that several writers, including the well-known arachnologist Walckenaer, have declared that spiders are attracted by music. [1]
- When she learns that he, the son of Caesar, has given his young heart to the cast-off wife of a street orator, a woman whose home attracted men as ripe dates lure birds, it will be--I know--like rubbing salt into her fresh wounds. [10]
- We might have taken you from the temple to the sea, and waited there, but it would probably have attracted attention and been dangerous. [10]
- But he was such a colossal figure in the world that whatever he did of an unusual nature attracted the world's attention, and became a precedent. [5]
- Walking down the street of shops, in the fore-noon, I was attracted by a large picture, carved, frame and all, from a single block of chocolate-colored wood. [5]
- The obstacle that stood between her and Hermon was the daughter of Archias, and she, fool that she was, had attracted Hermon's attention to her. [10]
- It made no stir, it attracted no attention. [5]
- That was a steady, sympathetic and honorable team, and although it was not swift, and not showy, it pulled me around the globe successfully, and always attracted its proper share of attention, even in the midst of the most costly and fashionable turnouts. [5]
- In France and Spain we attracted some attention in these costumes. [5]
- His complexion had something better than the bloom and freshness which had first attracted me;--it had that diffused tone which is a sure index of wholesome, lusty life. [6]
- It appears from some inscriptions on the staffs of the Pylons, that if the former were not actually erected for lightning-rods, it had been noticed that they attracted the electricity. [10]
- As soon as she saw that the eyes that had been attracted to herself as she entered the theatre had turned to other objects she herself looked round her. [10]
- In her predicament she descended to the office, where the face of one of the clerks attracted her, and she waited until he was unoccupied. [9]
- It was thus she attracted him. [9]
- The lottery-houses were set up early, and, to the last, attracted crowds, who could not resist the tempting display of goods and trinkets, which might be won by investing six kreuzers in a bit of paper, which might, when unrolled, contain a number. [4]
- She had long seen that she was attracted to the young master, and had thought, as the old Doctor did, that any impression which acted upon her affections might be the means of awakening a new life in her singularly isolated nature. [6]
- Life as yet seemed a festal hall, and as the bird flies from bough to bough wherever a red berry tempts him, my heart was attracted by every pair of bright eyes which glanced kindly at me. [10]
- The prospect of seeing with his own eyes those marvels of Pharaonic times which attracted so many travellers, was also an incitement, and his good spirits rose as soon as he observed what a reviving effect his determination to visit southern Egypt had upon Antinous. [10]
- But now she saw plainly that she would resign the pleasure of being a universally admired woman, whose modest home attracted the most distinguished men in the city, for the far greater happiness which would be hers as Dion's beloved wife. [10]
- It was so satisfactory to go into such a place and see the penitents kneeling here and there, the little group of very plainly dressed sinners attracted by Father Damon's spiritual face and unselfish enthusiasm. [4]
- It was on Saint Raphael's day, which had attracted his fellow-clerks to a festival in the country. [10]
- That moment a rustling of leaves attracted her attention; then the familiar clinking accompaniment of a slow, soft, measured step, and Lassiter walked into the court. [13]
- The noisy strife round Klea, and the cry of the wounded man had attracted the watch; the Cypriotes and the maiden soon found themselves surrounded, and they were conducted through a narrow side passage into the court-yard of the prison. [10]
- His novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham, which was running as a Century serial during the summer of 1882, attracted wide attention, and upon its issue in book form took first place among his published novels. [5]
- Despite some qualifying reserve she felt, and which had had to do with the redness of his lips, he attracted her. [9]
- This excited no remark, attracted no attention--for it was his "natural bent. [5]
- A single case, related by Professor Royce, attracted a good deal of attention. [6]
- She became a regular attendant on the ministrations of a very worthy clergyman, having been attracted to his meetin' by witnessing a marriage ceremony in which he called a man and a woman a "gentleman" and a "lady,"--a stroke of gentility which quite overcame her. [6]
- I should say rather that the reforms attracted to them all the ridiculous people, who almost always manage to become the most conspicuous. [4]
- But her eye ran swiftly over the open roll, and was attracted by a mark drawing her attention to a whole chapter. [10]
- Gifted Hopkins was quite right in believing that he attracted many eyes. [6]
- She moved more quickly than usual, for the bookrolls which Euryale had laid by her bed while she was still asleep attracted her eye with a suggestion of promise. [10]
- Which was the quality in him that attracted her? [9]
- At first the public, the jury, and the judge were curiously attracted, surprised into a fresh interest. [11]
- That its mere profit would have attracted him we do not believe; but its danger, uncertainty, and chance of distinction would irresistibly appeal to him. [4]
- Last year he presented it to an American lady, whose devotion attracted him; this year I saw it go away in a gilded coach in the hands of an ecclesiastic. [4]
- It has been positively asserted by good observers that spiders are attracted by music. [1]
- And considering it polite to return the young count's compliment, Ilagin looked at his borzois and picked out Milka who attracted his attention by her breadth. [2]
- The Arab's fine pleasant voice, full of sincere cordiality, and the simple distinction and dignity of his manner appealed to Orion, flattered him, gave him confidence, and attracted him to the older man who was, besides, a valiant hero. [10]
- In passing the Place de la Concorde, two objects in especial attracted my attention,--the obelisk, which was lying, when I left it, in the great boat which brought it from the Nile, and the statue of Strasbourg, all covered with wreaths and flags. [6]
- But when she persisted that she must go to Spain, he remembered that a bond of love had once united her to his friend Wolf Hartschwert, and in bewilderment he asked if it was the knight who attracted her there. [10]
- Janet did not perceive the workman engaged in building this fence until the sound of his hammer attracted her attention. [9]
- An early and passionate affection attracted the young man to his charming playfellow; the more ardently he cherished his faith the more fervently did he desire to win her for his wife. [10]
- He wrote some papers at this time for the "Plow, the Loom and the Anvil," upon the strength of materials, and especially upon bridge-building, which attracted considerable attention, and were copied into the English "Practical Magazine. [5]
- Passing my eye over them, an old dark quarto attracted my attention. [6]
- The party was over for him, though he wandered about for a while, was attracted again by the music to the ballroom, and did find there a dinner acquaintance with whom he took a turn. [4]
- It was not only the eyes and the senses which attracted a couple so widely separated by years, but far more the mental characteristics of both. [10]
- The tent was one of those with a flat roof, divided into three apartments, which he had often seen, and the woman who irresistibly attracted him was doubtless in the lighted one. [10]
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