How To Use Bewitching In A Sentence
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Her dreamy, cinematic songs were bewitching, her jerky dance moves beguiling.
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He almost laughed aloud when she mentioned his bewitching her into sleep.
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Thus Helen of Troy may have been a bewitching casus belli — and her elopement with Paris may have led to the deaths of thousands — but in fact she was acting with aret é ; she showed herself to be in close attunement with Aphrodite, who demanded an obedience not only to herself but to the imperatives of the heart.
The Gods Return
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It is surrounded by parkland, including a bewitching rose garden.
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The witch doctor poisons a chicken, and, from the way the chicken staggers before dropping dead, the witch doctor determines that the rash has been caused by the client's sister-in-law bewitching him.
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Other marketplace standards that made the ‘Workspheres’ cut include bewitching Apple computer products, such as a translucent, sculpturesque G4 Cube computer and a highly desirable, wafer-thin, oversized monitor.
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She also reported that the malefic cleric had confessed bewitching other people and recruiting a teenager into the ranks of the witches.
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Folk and country, romance and ruefulness, innocence and experience are all conjoined in their bewitching vocal harmonies.
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In her second novel, Desai is even more perceptive and bewitching ....
The Inheritance of Loss: Summary and book reviews of The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
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Without having first made this diversion, he would have found it impracticable to leave the house with tranquillity; but, when this bewitching philtre grew into an habit, her attachment to Ferdinand was insensibly dissolved; she began to bear his neglect with indifference, and, sequestering herself from the rest of the family, used to solicit this new ally for consolation.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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Moors, whose feats were quoted by Mrs. Elliot to her grandsons; and, accordingly, is generally represented as bewitching the sheep, causing the ewes to keb, that is to cast their lambs, or seen loosening the impending wreath of snow to precipitate its weight on such as take shelter, during the storm, beneath the bank of a torrent, or under the shelter of a deep glen.
The Black Dwarf
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There was something bewitching about Maurice.
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Many are carried away with those bewitching sports of gaming, hawking, hunting, and such vain pleasures, as [4526] I have said: some with immoderate desire of fame, to be crowned in the Olympics, knighted in the field, &c., and by these means ruinate themselves.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It combines bewitching dancing and gorgeous music with a timeless story and what must be the best flying ever to grace a stage.
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To attract male wasps to pollinate them, the orchids not only look like an insect Marilyn Monroe, they exude a fragrance even more bewitching than the real sexual attractant of the females they're mimicking.
Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature
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Suddenly, the potential of reality TV and its raw emotions are revealed in this wonderful, bewitching, heart-warming documentary.
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Thereupon Narayana called his bewitching Maya (illusive power) to his aid, and assuming the form of an enticing female, coquetted with the
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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The story is told by Shankar himself, against a bewitching backdrop of Indian scenery.
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She was bewitching, enchanting, graced with an unearthly elegance.
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In 1667 three men were hanged at York for the murder of a Wakefield woman suspected of bewitching a man.
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According to James, ‘These photographs express the charm and bewitching nature of contemporary Chinese women’.
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Laura's glowing face was fairly radiant with beauty, and her figure was unconsciously displayed in such a variety of bewitching attitudes and dainty postures, that even a pair of frisky kittens, that had been chasing each other round the grassplot and up and down the stems of the cherry-trees, ceased their gambols and lay still, crouching in the grass, and watching her graceful motions, as if taking heed for future imitation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
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Whatever grand claims spin-doctors make of their fabled and bewitching powers, they can no more teach a dunce to run the Department for Education than make a marquee the most exciting destination of the new millennium.
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Jane Seymour does an excellent job with the deceptively difficult role of Solitaire, who must be a bewitching beauty but also one who is convincingly sheltered and innocent.
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An animal that can make its own light: what an incongruous and utterly bewitching thing.
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Among the more famous pictures is a Peg Woffington by Hogarth, not here "dallying and dangerous," but demure as a nun; also the "Modern Midnight Conversation" from the same hand; three or four bewitching Romneys; a room full of beauties of the
Highways & Byways in Sussex
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Both movies share a bewitching visual style - lots of washed-out blues and greys, and the inscrutable narrative stylings of the best European art house fare.
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Yet there's something bewitching about it.
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The sandwich was unremarkable, but so much else was unforgettable: boeuf bourguignon, for example, admirably yielding in an earthy, wine-dark sauce of bewitching intensity; and peppery grilled onglet (hanger steak), an appropriately virile partner for a posse of supermodel fries
The Seattle Times
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The mood that it captures is as bewitchingly changeful, as mesmerisingly beautiful, as sublimely powerful as the sea itself.
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Up came the bewitching Ferdmand, glorious, too, but old and ebriose.
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bewitching smile
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There are recorded instances of them being beaten or even lynched: in 1667 three men were hanged for the murder of a woman suspected of bewitching a man.
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This habit of taking tobacco gradually extended from the extremities of the north to those of the south, and, in one form or other, seems to be equally grateful to the inhabitants of every climate; and by a singular caprice of the human species, no less inexplicable than unexampled (so bewitching is the acquired taste for
Confederate Prisoners at Roanoke Island
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Akin to eye-of-newt and other alchemic substances, it acts as a hypnotizing agent, bewitching the common Muggle to protective service and a general disregard of social protocols.
Kenya (Robinson): The Crying Game
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Next is the Sardinian city of Cagliari and its bewitching blend of modern and medieval.
The Sun
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He accused the goodwife of bewitching his daughter.
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Suddenly, with banging tampani and the crash of cymbals, rattle of tambourines and beating of tomtoms, the barbaric Ethiopians of the dancing orchestra began their syncopated outrages against every known law of harmony -- swinging weirdly into the bewitching, tickling, tingling rhythm of a maxixe.
The Voice on the Wire
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The mood that it captures is as bewitchingly changeful, as mesmerisingly beautiful, as sublimely powerful as the sea itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was incrusted with a frostwork of glittering crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were supported by many fantastic pillars which had been formed by the joining of great stalactites and stalagmites together, the result of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Frank was a quiet young man with bewitching brown eyes.
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The night went on without a hitch, but an hour had past, twelve midnight, the bewitching hour.
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Of course, I've been with my modiste - this year's hats are so bewitching!
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The singer's scratchy voice and world-weary acoustic songs are nastily refreshing, and his lyrics are positively bewitching.
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So bewitching is this exuberance that public opinion occasionally overshadows artistic instinct.
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Down by the green meadows of Sudbury there dwelt a bewitchingly fair maiden, the musical dissyllables of whose name were often upon the lips of the young men in all the country round about, and whose smile could awaken voiceless poetry in the heart of the most prosaic Puritan swain.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
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He is quick to reassure: his twin rejoinders could scarcely be more tender, his cadential harmonies more ravishing, or the intervening scintillating cascade more bewitching.
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It should be ugly, vast and monolithic, crude after the bewitching vagaries of the old town, but instead is a streamlined example of aesthetic integration, beautiful in its own right.
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Thankfully, this bewitching musical is as much about sight as sound: the glittering costumes and breathtaking sets are among the chief pleasures.
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Just take the word "bewitching," remove a few letters, and add a "Y," and you'll have a pretty good idea of what she's like.
The WritingYA Weblog: Fall into Mystery: Gratz and McClintock
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Next is the Sardinian city of Cagliari and its bewitching blend of modern and medieval.
The Sun
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The Kraken depicted on its bewitching, double-handled jug is a giant octopus, but the word also refers to a giant squid -- in fact, to any colossal sea monster.
Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival
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An animal that can make its own light: what an incongruous and utterly bewitching thing.
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He accused goodwife Elizabeth Gregory of bewitching his daughter.
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There was something bewitching about Maurice.
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The mood that it captures is as bewitchingly changeful, as mesmerisingly beautiful, as sublimely powerful as the sea itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was something bewitching about Maurice.
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‘Uh, uh, yeah,’ he stammered, a bit mesmerized by her bewitching presence.
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The woman at the centre of it all, is certainly bewitching in the flesh.
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The idea of tracking evolution in order to anticipate its future course is bewitching.
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Yet there's something bewitching about it.
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He kept the book open at the bewitching portrait.
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Light of God! but she is a bewitching bundle of femineity.
The Doomsman
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As one critical commentator said, they will probably "go into adulthood associating great music - the most bewitchingly lovely sounds on Earth - with a punitive slap on the chops.
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The way she clasped the stalks, her slouchy but upright posture, even her incessant munching were all banal facts of her life that instantly became bewitching to me.
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Her murals include a bewitching lovelorn village belle sitting near a pond with a lotus flower in her hand.
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All the treks have their own bewitching features that instigate you to move ahead while knowing them.
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The major landmarks of Paris are a bewitching sight from the various levels of the tower.
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Ask any gourmet and he will swear by the bewitching biryani about the place being an epicurean's nirvana.
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The boy, in his belled spurs and "shaps" of goat-hide, was lounging disconsolate and sulky against one of the front counters; she wore a striped ulster, an enchanted garment his arm had pressed, and a pink crocheted tam-o'-shanter cocked bewitchingly over her dark eyes.
In Exile and Other Stories
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On a misty morning, it's a bewitching sight -- an abandoned Scottish castle with a soaring tower and crenelated battlements rising from a forested, six-acre island.
Fortress on the Hudson
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she was bewitchingly beautiful
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But Willis's easygoing, dancing phrasing warmed up the chamber-sized dimensions of the playing, and once the intonation settled, in time for the bewitching Siciliano of the E-major concerto (BWV 1053), the group began to exude more confidence, and the closing Allegro had a happy brio.
Archive 2009-06-01
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It's sometimes more bewildering than bewitching but the landscape and haunting soundtrack forge a chilly atmosphere.
The Sun
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While accessible to boaties, hikers, campers and kayakers, Hinchinbrook Island is a bewitching haven that stands alone as one of the last truly wild lands of the tropical far north.
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Wherefore the mandrake is a bewitching plant, which enchants the eyes, and charms away pains, sorrows, and all passions by sleep.
Treatise on the Love of God
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As I wore it, what I later came to know as immortelle became bewitching: alternating between toasty caramel and deep, peaty smoky scotch.
Archive 2007-04-01
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And there emerged from the inner room a trim, lithe, almost boyishly slim figure attired in a bewitchingly skittish-looking garment consisting of knickerbockers and snug brassiere of king's blue satin messaline.
Roast Beef, Medium
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Babes in the Wood _en croupe_; and the bewitchingest Queen of Hearts coquets the Great Panjandrum himself "with the little round button at top" -- a land, in short, of the most kindly and light-hearted fancies, of the freshest and breeziest and healthiest types -- which is the land of
De Libris: Prose and Verse
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Next is the Sardinian city of Cagliari and its bewitching blend of modern and medieval.
The Sun
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It's sometimes more bewildering than bewitching but the landscape and haunting soundtrack forge a chilly atmosphere.
The Sun
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Taking, then, an agitating last view of a locket which circumstances had rendered inappreciable to her, 'Ah! not in vain,' she cried, 'even now shall I lose what once was a token so bewitching ...
Camilla
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Susan told her story clearly and precisely, using her bewitching charm to the full.
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Next is the Sardinian city of Cagliari and its bewitching blend of modern and medieval.
The Sun
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Yet there's something bewitching about it.
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It has been my no transfer fee bewitchingly monocot component footgear booking acceptant that one to get marlite and nevus landholding in merida.
Rational Review
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Frank was a quiet young man with bewitching brown eyes.
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The jazz soundtrack defines this oddity - often virtuosic and bewitching but slightly self-satisfied and overplayed.
The Sun
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What's bewitching, even hypnotic, about fly-fishing is the cast.
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Here's some interior art, to give you some idea of the "bewitching" effect these issues had on me:
Horror Hooked Me On Avengers
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One of Las Vegas 'most popular showmen has been cast in a bewitching role on CBS's The Defenders.
Keck's Exclusives: Which Magician Will Magically Appear on The Defenders?
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The DC ordered the immediate arrest of the woman who vehemently denied keeping ghosts or bewitching the girl.
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Germany, and the Lord knows where, may have changed her from a little bewitching, smiling, artless creature -- to a _vain, designing, haughty_, -- I could call a coquet by a thousand names; -- but Lady
Barford Abbey
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But Willis's easygoing, dancing phrasing warmed up the chamber-sized dimensions of the playing, and once the intonation settled, in time for the bewitching Siciliano of the E-major concerto (BWV 1053), the group began to exude more confidence, and the closing Allegro had a happy brio.
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An animal that can make its own light: what an incongruous and utterly bewitching thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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After which came bewitchingly beautiful nymphs, intoxicating drinks, great and speedy horse, auspicious elephant, wish granting trees etc.
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Next is the Sardinian city of Cagliari and its bewitching blend of modern and medieval.
The Sun
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Thereupon Narayana called his bewitching Maya (illusive power) to his aid, and assuming the form of an enticing female, coquetted with the Danavas.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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Her face was described as bewitching, and it was said that her mouth “supplemented the devastation that was caused by her eyes.”
Champlain's Dream
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This daughter, who is described as a bewitching beauty, was taken to wife by Lachland McGillivray, a Scotchman engaged in the Indian trade.
Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism
