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Sentences ending with attraction
- Every face was turned toward the center of attraction. [5]
- In their view, the Union, as a family relation, would seem to be no regular marriage, but rather a sort of "free-love" arrangement, to be maintained on passional attraction. [7]
- The church of the patron saint was the great center of attraction. [4]
- The managers of the conservatoire also give vocal concerts, and there are, besides, quartette soiries; so that there are few evenings without some attraction. [4]
- As he reached the circle it was a slight relief to learn that Pepper was the attraction. [9]
- We cannot think that this young man is doomed to perpetual separation from the society of womanhood during the period of its bloom and attraction. [6]
- It is the supposed secrecy or low origin of the remedy that is its attraction. [4]
- It is too rarely that we see it, and as it dies out and gives place to the odiously convenient pump, with the last patent on its cast-iron uninterestingness, does it not seem as if the farmyard aspect had lost half its attraction? [6]
- Being a lady of discerning qualities, however, the hostess remarked that Mr. Crewe's eyes wandered more than once to the far end of the oval table, where Victoria sat, and even Mrs. Pomfret could not deny the attraction. [9]
- He was a master hand at just such problems, and this one had a double attraction. [9]
Short sentences using attraction
- This is a great attraction. [4]
- Wonderful Attraction! [5]
More example sentences with the word attraction in them
- Through all the wrongs which she may suffer by him, there runs this cable of unhappy attraction, testified to by how many sorrowful lives! [11]
- But the second would weep bitter tears to think what a rayless and barren life that must be which could extract enjoyment from the miserable flimsy wand that has such magic attraction for sauntering youths and simpering maidens. [6]
- And whatever she would say was bound to have a quality of interest and attraction that could be exercised by no other lips. [4]
- The dreamy haze was beginning to soften the landscape, and the mast delicious days of the year were lending their attraction to the scenery of The Mountain. [6]
- No mysterious attraction warned me that the heart warm with the same blood as mine was throbbing so near my own. [6]
- Whether it was vanity, or pride, or only the instinctive sense of inherited force and attraction, it was the best of defences. [6]
- I am not vain enough to suppose that I could win her heart, but unfortunately there are many who cannot forgive the power of attraction which she exerts over me as well as upon all. [10]
- They are of two sorts: the domestic story, entirely unidealized, and as flavorless as water-gruel; and the spiced novel, generally immoral in tendency, in which the social problems are handled, unhappy marriages, affinity and passional attraction, bigamy, and the violation of the seventh commandment. [4]
- These details seem to me all inadequate and misleading, for the attraction of the face that made it interesting is still undefined. [4]
- I should like to know how many young men of wealth and family would give up the pleasures of a London season were there not a strong attraction in Maryland. [9]
- In a word, this house is the centre of attraction for all Hellenic interests in Egypt, and of more importance to us politically, than our temple, the Hellenion itself, and our hall of commerce. [10]
- First, there is the wide ring of attraction which draws into itself all that once cross its outer border. [6]
- He involuntarily seized the saddlebag which contained the handsomest gift he had bought in Brussels for the person who had drawn him back to Ratisbon with a stronger power of attraction than anything else. [10]
- The attraction of the Nile was upon him, as it grows on every one who lives in Egypt. [11]
- But Morgan was the main attraction, the conspicuous personality here; she was head chief of this household, that was plain. [5]
- I stood watching the dial one day,--it was near one o'clock,--and a strange attraction held me fastened to the spot. [6]
- The "Autocrat" had the attraction of novelty, which of course was wanting in the succeeding papers of similar character. [6]
- In those days the Athenaeum Picture Gallery was a principal centre of attraction to young Boston people and their visitors. [6]
- It would seem that there could not be much sympathy between natures so opposed, persons who looked at life from such different points of view, but undeniably Carmen had a certain attraction for Margaret. [4]
- Is it likely that some other attraction may come into disturb the existing relation? [6]
- It seemed a strange thing that an agricultural college should have an attraction for city-bred youths, but such is the fact. [5]
- Just what the state of his feelings were at this time towards Victoria Flint is too vague--accurately to be painted, but he was certainly not ready to give way to the attraction he felt for her. [9]
- Since coming to St. Saviour's he had been constant to one attraction, and he had not risked his chances with Zoe by response to the shy invitations of dark eyes, young and not so young, which met his own here and there in the parish. [11]
- His house was soon the centre of attraction to all foreigners, by whom she was overwhelmed with gifts. [10]
- It was not simply in his good looks, in his good manners, in his conversation, that she found this attraction, but there was a singular fascination which she felt might be dangerous to her peace, without explaining it to herself in words. [6]
- Elsie, no doubt, showed a kind of attraction towards him, as did perhaps some others; but he had been perfectly discreet, and no father or brother or lover had any just cause of quarrel with him. [6]
- He excited her, she was divided between attraction and fear of him, and often she resented his easy assumption that a tie existed between them--the more so because this seemed to be taken for granted among certain of his associates. [9]
- One thing, however, seems certain without any serious reflection: the attraction which draws me here, as well as you, will not enter the cloister as a monk, but as a little nun, wears no beard, but braids her hair. [10]
- A sieve lets sand pass through it; a filter arrests sand, but lets fluids pass, glass holds fluids, but lets light through; wood shuts out light, but magnetic attraction goes through it as sand went through the sieve. [6]
- Melissa's eyes were riveted as if spell-bound on this figure, which was neither handsome nor dignified, and which nevertheless had a strange attraction for her, she knew not why. [10]
- There are two principles of attraction which bring different natures together: that in which the two natures closely resemble each other, and that in which one is complementary of the other. [6]
- He knew the powerful attraction of unattractiveness; he knew that no life could be imagined, howsoever comfortless and forbidding, but somebody would want to try it. [5]
- It is a pleasant place to drive toward evening; but its great attraction is the crowd there. [4]
- Far above any physical attraction Ian had ever possessed for her was the deep conviction that he gave her mind what no one else gave it, that he was the being who knew the song her spirit sang.... [11]
- How can a person be attached to a house that has no center of attraction, no soul in it, in the visible form of a glowing fire, and a warm chimney, like the heart in the body? [4]
- Partly from restlessness, partly from an attraction she hardly avowed to herself, she followed her usual habit and strolled listlessly along to the school. [6]
- The camp was on a fair plain, girdled with hills, spacious, well kept apparently, but did not present any peculiar attraction for us. [6]
- He soon wearied of the civil and religious ceremonies, that might be witnessed nearly every day, and which always exerted the same power of attraction to the inhabitants of Madrid. [10]
- But the Rose of Sharon, with all her beauty, would have had no attraction for Austen Vane. [9]
- The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness. [2]
- A good part of its attraction lies in the fickleness of its aspect. [4]
- But she did not connect the attraction for Austen Vane with her misery. [9]
- He no longer needed to fear her power of attraction, though, now that he had seen her again, he better understood the spell which she had exerted over him. [10]
- It was the music, a hackneyed theme of Schubert's played heavily, that seemed to arouse the composite emotion of anger and hatred, yet of sustained attraction and wild regret she had felt before, but never so poignantly as now. [9]
- Why the hotel-keeper's mind along the coast regards this grotesque structure as a summer attraction it is difficult to see. [4]
- A particle of matter cannot tell us that it does not feel the law of attraction or repulsion and that that law is untrue, but man, who is the subject of history, says plainly: I am free and am therefore not subject to the law. [2]
- Although not having mastered yet the German language, he exercised a marked attraction by a conversation sparkling with wit, humor, and originality. [6]
- She had so many qualities that are better than beauty that we had not credited her with the more obvious attraction. [4]
- Some cranks have maintained that the theory of gravitation alone does not explain the universe, that repulsion is as necessary as attraction in our economy. [4]
- The attraction in London seems to have been the theater, where he saw John Kemble, Cooke, and Mrs. Siddons. [4]
- If she had known how Maurice trembled as he looked upon her, in that conflict of attraction and uncontrollable dread,--if she had known it! [6]
- And yet she keeps coming here--of course you are a sufficient attraction, Brooks. [9]
- A generation ago it was the centre of attraction, and it was understood that going to the Catskills was going there. [4]
- People go--and it is presumed the music is the attraction in ordinary apparel. [4]
- But the court is not the principal attraction that draws me to the capital. [10]
- There was an irresistible attraction about that room, and apparently very little law read there, though sometimes its occupant arose and pushed the visitors into the hall and locked the door, and opened the window at the top to let the smoke out. [9]
- Next is the inner ring of attraction. [6]
- There had been, indeed, a strong and strange attraction which had drawn her to him; even now she was glad to have been of service to him, and to have helped him to endure the sufferings laid upon him by a cruel fate. [10]
- The chief attraction, however, this night was within; for the men whose duties were exercised on the dead had displayed the finest and best of what they had to offer to their customers. [10]
- He, too, had his human sympathies, but in the distance his imagination pictured the final ceremony, and how he himself should figure in a spectacle where the usual centre piece of attraction would be wanting,--perhaps his own services uncalled for. [6]
- He had not hesitated; he had yielded himself to the sumptuous attraction, and the fire in his eyes was only the window of the furnace within him. [11]
- This prospect offered her the greatest attraction, and yet she desired nothing, nothing more from him except to be permitted to watch his destiny. [10]
- She realized that he was drawn to her, and that the attraction was not alone due to his having saved her at Carillon; that he was not taking advantage of the thing which must ever be a bond between them, whatever came of life. [11]
- She would fain have started up to get it back again, and a strong attraction drew her towards the window to ascertain whether Heinz Schorlin had really come and was awaiting her greeting. [10]
- We may never have considered the attraction for us of the disagreeable, the positive fascination of the uncommonly ugly. [4]
- I think he has found an attraction that will call him down from the celestial luminaries to a light not less pure and far less remote. [6]
- His face was grey and lined with wrinkles, like pumice-stone, but large bright eyes lent meaning and attraction to the withered countenance. [10]
- Thoughts of home grew stronger the nearer he approached it--far stronger, as though this feeling of his was subject to the law by which the force of attraction is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance. [2]
- The Quaker element gives an irresistible attraction to these benignant Philadelphia households. [6]
- I am far from denying that there is an attraction in a thriving railroad village. [6]
- Nobody troubles himself for a common striped snake or a petty thief, but a cobra or a wife-killer is a centre of attraction to all eyes. [6]
- The law of fluid pressure divide the different forms of organized bodies by the form of attraction and the number increased will be the form. [5]
- Others, again, have felt the attraction of remarkable genius, even when displayed on grim and terrible criminals. [14]
- She continued to experience in his presence waves of antagonism and attraction, revealing to her depths and possibilities of her nature that frightened while they fascinated. [9]
- Everything connected with either the past or the present of the country had for him an attraction. [4]
- He had married early, at that happy period when interested motives are least apt to influence the choice; and his single idea of marriage was, that it was the union of persons naturally drawn towards each other by some mutual attraction. [6]
- Dr. Lind had died a year since, and with his death Windsor must have lost, for Shelley, its chief attraction. [5]
- He wished to devote himself to theology, and Neander, De Wette, Marheineke, Schleiermacher, etc., must have exerted a great power of attraction over a young man who desired to pursue that study. [10]
- Any unusual attraction detected in a first glance is a sufficient apology for a second,--not a prolonged and impertinent stare, but an appreciating homage of the eyes, such as a stranger may inoffensively yield to a passing image. [6]
- I do not deny the attraction of walking. [6]
- What was this curious attraction that roused the interest of all who came in contact with him? [9]
- Her father's money counted in this; she divined that Beaton was poor; but that made no difference; she would have enough for both; the money would have counted as an irresistible attraction if there had been no other. [8]
- In passing the chapel she could and would not resist its strong power of attraction. [10]
- There is a certain exhilaration in the lights and music and the lively crowd, and always an attraction in the freedom of intercourse offered. [4]
- She was the center of attraction for the envy of all the ladies. [5]
- The closer you came to him, the more compelling was he--a devilish attraction, notably selfish, yet capable of benevolence. [11]
- We are very busy with our own affairs, but there is always something going on out-doors worth looking at; and there is seldom an hour before sunset that has not some special attraction. [4]
- But on occasions, before he himself somewhat tardily departed,--drawn thither by a morbid though impelling attraction, Hodder occasionally walked through Dalton Street of an evening. [9]
- It may have been nothing but the common charm of bright eyes; but he had never before experienced the same kind of attraction. [6]
- His wife was beautiful, a creature of various charms, a centre of attraction. [11]
- And when that attraction ceases, what is left? [9]
- At last the attraction became too strong to resist any longer. [6]
- She looked again at the cable and Phil Boldrick's eyrie, which seemed to have a wonderful attraction for her. [11]
- The events described and the characters delineated in these two volumes had, perhaps, less peculiar interest for English and American readers than some of those which had lent attraction to the preceding ones. [6]
- The old dreams and legends of danger added to the attraction. [6]
- He felt antagonism and attraction in almost equal degree --the situation transcended his experience. [9]
- These, therefore, have always made the lands about the eastern Mediterranean an attraction to cultivated men and the interest of the subject accordingly reinforced the skill of the writer. [4]
- True, there dwelt also those who had the greatest power of attraction for her. [10]
- One must not allow himself to be flattered into an overestimate of his powers because he gets many letters expressing a peculiar attraction towards his books, and a preference of them to those with which he would not have dared to compare his own. [6]
- It may be agreeable or otherwise, a source of attraction or repulsion, but its influence is not less real, though far less obvious and less dominant, than in the lower animals. [6]
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