enchantment

• By these, every sort of magic, enchantment, and witchcraft was forbidden; and the punishment of death decreed against those who in any way evoked the devil, compounded love-philters, afflicted either man or woman with barrenness, troubled the atmosphere, excited tempests, destroyed the fruits of the earth, dried up the milk of cows, or tormented their fellow-creatures with sores and diseases. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• He is the god freed from enchantment, the offspring of the God who was hidden by a spell. —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
• Owwwwwwww!" said the scream As though waiting only for that one signal to break the spell of their enchantment, the Canary leaped upward and grabbed the Bengal Tiger by his muslin nose,--the White Rabbit sprang to "point" on the cooling turkey, and the Red and Green Parrot fell to the floor in a desperate effort to settle once and for all with the black spot that itched so impulsively on his left shoulder For a moment only, in comparative quiet, the Concerned struggled with the Concerned. —  Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
• Elsa asks her fateful question, and the enchantment is gone. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
• When a man begins to discover flaws in his ideal the enchantment is weakening He saunters up to her, and she blushes, while a touch of delight gleams in her eye Do you know," he begins, in a melancholy tone, "that I have sold my birthright, but not for a mess of cabbages, as the camp-meeting brother called it They both laugh,--Polly with a mirthful ring, Eugene lazily And now I must take my bag of gold on one end of a stick and my best clothes done up in a bundle on the other, and go out to the new Territories. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor

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