A phrenologist and a mesmerizer came — and went again and left the village duller and drearier than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
Your man may be a fancy mesmerizer, or mesmerize you, now that it is flying about like an epidemic, without knowing it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
In a sense this guidance had been present in 1813 in the mesmerizer (who is obliquely mentioned) and also in the "life-spirit" (W2 157). From Wordnik.com. ['The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)] Reference
The mesmerizer and his young friend knelt down also on the rug on either side of the tribades, and facing each other, embraced with the most apparent ardour across the bodies of the writhing and excitable girls. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference
But guidance suggests a potentially analytic rather than hypnotic relation, since the mesmerizer would simply have been a medium, whereas guidance cognitively organizes the flows with which Mesmerism deals electrochemically. From Wordnik.com. ['The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)] Reference
The mesmerizer sits at his head behind him, leaning over, making almost face-to-face contact, his right hand reaching down to the pit of the man's stomach, his left hand making passes close to the face, over and over again, for hours, sometimes for six hours a day. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Over Matter] Reference
However, never mind those trifling incidents; my subject is the mesmerizer, now. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters from My Autobiography] Reference
But here, there is no mesmerizer, unless the patient can be supposed to mesmerize herself. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
A phrenologist and a mesmerizer came -- and went again and left the village duller and drearier than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5.] Reference
A fourth, looking wild and dreamy, as if he had come out of the cave of Trophonius, and who is a mesmerizer and a mystic, thinks. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
It seemed to him that he opened his eyes to find himself on his bed in the underground chamber where the mesmerizer had put him to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Equality] Reference
The ensemble is a four-piece mesmerizer, full of sharp angles and featuring a flashy black-and-gray checkered pattern that pro-football fashion eccentric. From Wordnik.com. [Miami New Times | Complete Issue] Reference
This is what chiefly favored the early theory that a mesmeric fluid emanated from the mesmerizer by means of which he could act in his subject as he pleased. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] Reference
He conjectured that the actions of the mesmeric subject could be explained without a fluid by the suggestion of phantasms to him on the part of the mesmerizer. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] Reference
"But if a mesmerizer could so affect another living being, can you suppose that a mesmerizer could also affect inanimate objects: move chairs, -- open and shut doors?". From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
Nor, supposing it true that a mesmerized patient can respond to the will or passes of a mesmerizer a hundred miles distant, is the response less occasioned by a material being; it may be through. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted and the Haunters] Reference
Nor, supposing it true that a mesmerized patient can respond to the will or passes of a mesmerizer a hundred miles distant, is the response less occasioned by a material being; it may be through a material fluid -- call it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
Somewhat relieved on this point, I instructed Sawyer to rouse me at nine o'clock next morning, and, lying down on the bed in my dressing-gown, assumed a comfortable attitude, and surrendered myself to the manipulations of the mesmerizer. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Backward 2000-1887] Reference
I had a lot of people scattered about the globe who carried in their pockets something like the old mesmerizer-button, made of different metals, and when they wanted to call up each other and have a talk, they "pressed the button" or did something, I don't remember what, and communication was at once opened. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)] Reference
Brian the mesmerizer performs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Upon my life, I 'll go and talk to that French mesmerizer about it. ". From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
(Hannibal) was the arrival of the mesmerizer. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters from My Autobiography] Reference
And not discarding, as I own I should have been originally induced to do, the queries or suggestions adventured by Bacon in his discursive speculations on Nature, to wit, 'that there be many things, some of them inanimate, that operate upon the spirits of men by secret sympathy and antipathy,' and to which Bacon gave the quaint name of 'imaginants,' so even that wand, of which I have described to you the magic-like effects, may have had properties communicated to it by which it performs the work of the magician, as mesmerists pretend that some substance mesmerized by them can act on the patient as sensibly as if it were the mesmerizer himself. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
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