You will magnetise the Queen as you have magnetised me. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
Orrin Smith the wood-engraver -- he who had previously tried to magnetise the idea of a "London Charivari" into life -- received many practical hints of the greatest artistic value. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
"It is important for these business owners to develop product offerings in the run-up to 2010 specifically to magnetise foreign arrivals to these sites and activities ... related opportunities also exist in transport and logistics, as well as accommodation". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I should like for instance to see anyone magnetise me! '. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
A doctor will magnetise water and cure his patient therewith. From Wordnik.com. [Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries] Reference
He will magnetise a cloth, and the cloth, laid on the seat of pain, will heal. From Wordnik.com. [Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries] Reference
He is immune to electric shocks and his body can magnetise objects better than a magnet. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But slowly your eyelids start to magnetise, and you wake up at 5am in a pool of your own drool. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
His two arms, chest and back can even magnetise such objects as spoons, forks, knives, and cellphones. From Wordnik.com. Reference
No cruel inhuman despot could magnetise with an enduring fascination multitudes of men and women as he did. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of St. Helena] Reference
We might also magnetise the car, say by surrounding it with a coil of wire excited from an accumulator on board. From Wordnik.com. [A Trip to Venus] Reference
He had heard Mesmer say that he could magnetise bits of wood: why should he not be able to magnetise a whole tree?. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
Again, if we magnetise a piece of soft iron we can destroy its magnetism by striking it so as to agitate its atoms and throw them out of line. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Electricity] Reference
I magnetise a very fine needle by rubbing it with my bar magnet; I retain only the slenderest part, the point, some five or six millimetres long. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
Iron-platinum is harder to magnetise than conventional media, so modifications will be needed to allow information to be easily recorded and read. From Wordnik.com. [ACM TechNews] Reference
The team investigated using a probe with a fine magnetic tip to magnetise and read each of the nanospheres instead of a conventional recording head. From Wordnik.com. [ACM TechNews] Reference
In process of time, the delusion so increased, that it was deemed sufficient to magnetise a sword, to cure any hurt which that sword might have inflicted!. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
No one of the family had been ill, I had not attempted to magnetise any one, or even dreamed of it, and, of course, the whole prediction was a complete failure. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Europe] Reference
In fact, Kriya Yoga is the core of that pyramid because it helps magnetise the inner spiritual spine, and thus bring everything into alignment with a higher reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
I was closely questioned, first, as to whether either of the family had not been ill, and secondly, whether I had not felt a secret desire to magnetise any one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Europe] Reference
Like the Voltaic current, the thermo-electric current can heat wires, produce decomposition, magnetise iron, and deflect a magnetic needle at any distance from its origin. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Like Valentine Greatraks, he found it hard work to magnetise all that came -- that he had not even time to take the repose and relaxation which were necessary for his health. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
Now take a second darning-needle like the first, and magnetise it in precisely the same manner: freely suspended it also will turn its eye to the north and its point to the south. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Can any eulogy exaggerate the services of a man who could so magnetise his fellow-men as to associate them at once with his nobility of soul, and elevate them to a standard little short of his own?. From Wordnik.com. [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference
And when in turn they, desired to send forth representatives would not they lay hands upon them, make passes over them and endeavour to magnetise them in the same way -- if that word may express the process?. From Wordnik.com. [The Vital Message] Reference
M. ----, one of the principal magnetisers of Paris, and from whom, among others, I have had an account of the whole affair, was engaged to magnetise this woman, while M. Cloquet operated on the diseased part. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Europe] Reference
Then again, the Lesser Asia; we should never lose sight of the Lesser Asia as the principal scene of our movements; the richest regions in the world, almost depopulated, and a position from which we might magnetise Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
About the same time, the Abbé Faria, "the man of wonders," began to magnetise; and the belief being that he had more of the mesmeric fluid about him, and a stronger will, than most men, he was very successful in his treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
They embraced the patient between the knees, rubbed them gently down the spine and the course of the nerves, using gentle pressure upon the breasts of the ladies, and staring them out of countenance to magnetise them by the eye!. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
A stone, a precious stone though, and you cannot magnetise him through his wife, for she has not an idea; but Madame Nassim is immensely mesmeric. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
"The education sector and other social services must advance more proactive intervention strategies that will magnetise the participation of our young people. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaica Gleaner Online] Reference
To riper life may magnetise. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
The youth continued to magnetise the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Wrath] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.

