entranced

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But if you were too entranced, the words of Marine Mammal Stranding Center director Bob Schoelkopf would have jolted you back to reality.

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  • But if you were too entranced, the words of Marine Mammal Stranding Center director Bob Schoelkopf would have jolted you back to reality. —  Press of Atlantic City: Editorials
  • Another member of the circle--a young man--became entranced, and proceeded to impersonate lost souls, 'earth-bound spirits,' in the manner of our friend Mrs. Harris, and wailed and wept and moaned in most grewsome fashion. —  The Shadow World
  • However, it was not long before my disappointment gave way to delight; for the air that blew in through the open window was so sweet, so richly scented with heather and honeysuckle, and the view of the broad, sweeping, thickly wooded grounds so indescribably charming, that, despite my inartistic and unpoetical nature, I was entranced--entranced as I had never been before, and never have been since. —  Scottish Ghost Stories
  • For my part, I feel relaxed in such a delicious rapture as I have never either felt or dreamt of before--entranced, as it were, in a sense of your wonderful beauty and goodness. —  The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • The image evoked by Almayer; the picture of Willems ranging over the islands and disturbing the harmony of the universe by robbery, treachery, and violence, held him silent, entranced--painfully spellbound. —  An Outcast of the Islands
 

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