Quinsey was known as a mesmerist, a ventriloquist, an illusionist, a prestidigitator and a master of the Black Art, and occasionally in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference

They are likely a charlatan, a mesmerist, or a dolt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

And I am, without modesty, quite an accomplished mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripping Time]

Is Obama, who proclaims that the people don't want ideology, a mesmerist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krugman: Obama's Centrist Economic Appointments "Unavoidable"] Reference

The man's a physician, actually, an accomplished mesmerist, Dr. John Lachley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripping Time]

The heritage that prepared a native of the East for submission to the mesmerist was not his.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown of Conan]

The mesmerist types are always foreign and mysterious in the Madame Helena Blavatsky mold and usually women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

As if she were some mesmerist, she curled and uncurled her fingers several times, working them over the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Soul to Keep] Reference

I knew Kathulos was a mesmerist -- that he understood fully the secret of dominating another's mind and soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon of Skulls]

Aylmer was leaning forward, and looking at him with a strange intensity that was almost like that of a mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

The stranger looked at the engineer, and seemed to be under his power, as a subject under the influence of a mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

Tarascus lifted his hand in salutation, but his expression was not pleasant to see as he looked after the departing mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Dragon]

The persecuted mesmerist was at last enabled to witness the startling phenomena of a science he had long treasured in his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ursula] Reference

Do you think that this is a performance in a booth, and that I am to be taken in by all the humbug of the professional mesmerist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

He stood still, his sword dangling from nerveless fingers, on his face the expression of a man bound by the spells of a mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

He did not know he was by his own boast a mesmerist and a mystagogue; a destroyer of reason and will; an enemy of truth and liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [G.K. Speaks - The Bluff of the Big Shops] Reference

It's The Cabinet of Caligari here, with the mesmerist (O'Reilly) sending out a mass suggestion to its suggestible somnambulist audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Weber: Bill O'Reilly: Culture Terrorist] Reference

As was to be expected, Lola, having a healthy appetite and objecting to short rations, gave the mesmerist the slip and hurried back to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

Dr. Messinger, the well-known medium and mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference

I am the greatest mesmerist in the world and he is in my net.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Eternal] Reference

Come on and let's see what your mesmerist frauds have to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference

I tell ye, ye hadn't ought to have sassed that mesmerist feller.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference

Priscilla by her magnetic powers and enslavement to the mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference

His talent is even less acceptable than Leona's as he's a mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosario's Reading Journal] Reference

The exorcist then became a mesmerist, probably also a deluded impostor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference

"Oh!" she answered, "that is Madame Riennes, the noted mesmerist and medium.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Eternal] Reference

At the first attempt to induce the magnetic somnolency, the mesmerist entirely failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3] Reference

I don't think he knew anything about medicine, but he was certainly a remarkable mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking Backward 2000-1887] Reference

Page 235 teaching and influencing others that some of the envious have called her a mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction Compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown 250 p., ill.] Reference

The oftener the victim yields to the will of the mesmerist, the stronger will his power become.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weapons of Mystery] Reference

A mesmerist believed the old man, who was a sort of traveling mummy, to be the famous Balsamo, also known as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference

He professed to heal every disease, to abolish wrinkles, to predict future events, and was a great mesmerist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference

We speak lightly of mesmeric influence, but, after all, there is only one mesmerist for youth -- a good woman or a good man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Dead] Reference

If the mesmerist can put you in the trance condition and then hand you over to trustworthy spirits to control you, well and good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers] Reference

Is it not he that is reported to be a cruel mesmerist who sacrifices everybody -- yes, even his own sister, to his medical experiments?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Romance of Two Worlds] Reference