dread fascination

Example Sentences

• "Fair was Eutelidas once, with his beautiful hair, But admiring his face in the stream, on himself he inflicted A dread fascination, and wasted away with disease."
• "Hence this charm, with its mermaid or siren and its pendant bells, must have been considered to possess the power of attracting to itself the dread fascination, and thus averting the evil eye from the person of its possessor."
• "The Etruscans, said to be the most ancient people of whom we have any preserved records in Europe, were evidently, like most primaeval races, strong believers in a future state, and took great pains to protect their dead; we may even suggest that precaution, lest the dread fascination should injure the bodies of their helpless departed, may have led to burning them, and thus we arrive at the ultimate origin of cremation, certainly not the earliest method of disposal of the dead."
• "It was an apt allusion to the then, and still, universally prevalent belief in that power of 'dread fascination' which the writer of the Epistle so well knew they [the Galatians] would comprehend."
• "Her heart beat so fast that it nearly stified her; she stared in dread fascination at that spectral figure, which was Hugo and yet which was not Hugo, for the face was pale and transparent, the eyes shone strangely — he looked altogether unearthly."
• "It appears to be in that strange mental condition which most of ourselves must often enough have experienced in the case of dreams — a kind of dread fascination, which enchains all the mental faculties, and causes, as it were, a failure of the faculties of the brain."