He specialized in mesmeric, often nightmarish visions of scenes from Shakespeare, Milton and Norse mythology.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn] Reference

You are aware that I possess in rather a remarkable degree what we have agreed to call the mesmeric power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference

The sense of touch is also brought into play in hypnosis; Richet set great value on the so-called mesmeric strokes or passes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

I was immediately conscious that in his eyes there was, in an especial degree, what, for want of a better term, one may call the mesmeric quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

From the Jesuits, in childhood, he received religious impressions which might almost be described as mesmeric or hypnotic in their influence upon his nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

I was conscious, but I was in a kind of mesmeric sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Ghost Stories] Reference

She assumed with a kind of mesmeric force all the propositions that Ann Veronica wanted her to define.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference

The youth in a kind of mesmeric trance took down a battered, dog's eared book and turned over the pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference

The third is your wife's sleep-walking propensities, which would have made it quite easy for her to be drawn ashore under some kind of mesmeric influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ivory Child] Reference

Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill hailed a "mesmeric" performance from winger Ashley Young as his side salvaged a point with a 2-2 home draw against Wolves.    From Wordnik.com.  [icLiverpool] Reference

(Shröter 160-61), which Judith Norman loosely translates as "mesmeric" and not magnetic sleep (W2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)'] Reference

Eleanor stares in mesmeric terror at its fiery eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

He makes a few sham mesmeric passes over it, but still it falls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

There was something mesmeric in his touch that overpowered Ideala.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

The same rule applies to gesture, tones of the voice, and mesmeric passes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference

At this juncture Frank willed the parson to awake from the mesmeric trance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference

And a vision of mesmeric eyes with a smile, sweet as a woman's came to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference

On looking towards her brother she saw he was making the mesmeric passes with his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference

There is something mesmeric about you, I think, something inimical to disease at all events.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

Yet her eyes were closed, and there was no doubt of her being still under the mesmeric influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference

'I can only suppose that through all those weeks she had kept me there in a state of mesmeric stupor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

Knowing this, you can place any person in a mesmeric sleep, and then be able to do with him as you will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference

A grave yet tender look met in the mesmeric eyes of Lionel and the soulful eyes of Vaura, as she said softly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference

At last, and his handsome face and mesmeric eyes are lit with happiness, her voice comes to him from a music-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference

Psellus describes a mode of divinition among the Assyrians by a basin, which smacks strongly of the mesmeric practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

Then his limbs relaxed, his breath became calm, the face lost all trace of weariness, and he passed into a deep, mesmeric sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference

The Baiga cures ordinary maladies and the bites of snakes and scorpions by mesmeric passes fortified by the utterance of charms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

One is tempted to ask, in view of such a result, why waste time on the color-cure when the mesmeric system succeeds so admirably?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

Out before him, painted in the vivid mesmeric colours of evening, lay a vista dear to him -- a new railway built in silent places.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

(2) Hypnotic and so-called mesmeric phenomena were subjective in origin, and both were excited by direct or by indirect suggestion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference

It may be a drug prescribed by a physician, imposition of hands, mesmeric passes, the touch of a relic, or visiting a sacred shrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

The mesmeric or magnetic fluid which emanates from man to man, or even from man to what is termed an inanimate object, is far greater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference

It requires the keen vision and the genius of the artist to give him a realization of the mesmeric influence nature frequently exerts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

Madame was recklessly abandon, and Sir Lionel had asked her with his mesmeric eyes, or she would not have disobeyed the pressure of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference

The use of water in communicating an ecstacy similar to the mesmeric lucidity, is largely dwelt on by the mystical writers known as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference