"mesmerised" them, she told reporters: "We have not been mesmerised, but we love him very much.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

She was like a helpless rabbit mesmerised by a hawk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desire for Revenge]

Mimette followed its peregrinations as if mesmerised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvage for the Saint]

Tistou's slow thoughts were mesmerised by the motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

I was mesmerised with it till I finally looked upwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [yanxious Diary Entry] Reference

He pressed nose and hands to the glass display, mesmerised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fleshmarket Close]

Leading Afrikaans women might not be mesmerised by President.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

All those with vision had been mesmerised by the Seyyeds/Theocrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran: Defending vs Defining] Reference

"People are mesmerised by the rebel advance," said a Council diplomat.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Mason's book, has the eyebrows, eyes, and mouth of a much mesmerised man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference

Now they appear to have fallen into the same mesmerised trance over Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [The winning Tory strategy of hope'n'change. Oh, wait...] Reference

He got up, mesmerised, not yet believing, a long way still from believing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]

Mel turned to look at me with those amazing blue eyes and I was mesmerised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mel Gibson Has Baby Girl, Possibly Names It Sugartits] Reference

He stares, mesmerised, as if seeing an ethereal faerie creature come to life.    From Wordnik.com.  [beneath an opal moon]

She'd not yet mesmerised it with her caress, but the bird was already cooperating.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traitor to Memory]

But Yvette was abstracted, agitated, hardly heeding: in one of her mesmerised states.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference

But I was so mesmerised that I only managed to squeak “why, on account of your name?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Fox Rampant] Reference

Mrs Bracken gaped at me mesmerised when I relayed the suggestion, and said 'Yes' faintly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come To Grief]

The opposition were as mesmerised as the spectators by the interweaving passes of Arsenal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cesc Fábregas and Arsenal hit Braga for six in Champions League] Reference

As if she were mesmerised, Lindsay lifted her hand slowly and took the book from the shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadline for Murder]

It was in the dusk of the evening, so that the room where he was mesmerised was nearly dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

All this was three months ago, when the snow first mesmerised the earth and put it to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

It seemed to a mesmerised Becca that there was a flame deep in his eyes as he looked at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carides Pregnancy]

Ditto with the dozens of perfect promises which mesmerised a Bush-traumatized American public.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying] Reference

Within the space of two steps, I came to a frozen halt, mesmerised by the sight before my eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter of Mary]

With these hands I mesmerised millions into believing in me - let me do the same for you... please.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama meets British leader] Reference

"You mesmerised her, you say, eighteen years ago, and you pretend you can still bend her to your will?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference

Itis everyones choice, vote as a hypnotised mesmerised slave or vote as a thinking and committed citizen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superdelegates WILL Decide: Will They Allow Clinton To Take the Scorched Earth Path?] Reference

Brown had chanced upon Rumer on walking into an open-mic night and says "after 10 seconds I was mesmerised".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rumer: 'If Burt Bacharach says you're good, it's time to start believing in yourself'] Reference

He drew his chair closer towards her and their eyes met, hers held by his like the eyes of a rabbit mesmerised by headlights.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guilty Thing Surprised]

I pity the gullible American public who have become mesmerised by the radical charms of Obama's rhetoric of 'economic justice'.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

He was smiling a little, but there was no laughter in the half-closed eyes, which studied her with frank intensity, as if mesmerised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count's Blackmail Bargain]

He travelled to the US with Brown and, like De Tocqueville, returned mesmerised, in particular by Clinton's use of political charisma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism] Reference

Mrs. Caldwell looked as if she were being mesmerised to sleep by the two pairs of bright eyes so resolutely and patiently fixed upon her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

'Mark'll Sink Us' comes closer to confession: A message mesmerised on all English breath The crux pretty grasped but. mostly misunderstood.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles] Reference

Villagers may be mesmerised by new roads and electricity cables, but they have seen little tangible improvement to their squalid lifestyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference