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Penelope threw out the captivations of her wit and her literature; while

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Madame, though she had no taste for such conversation, and whose coarseness and selfishness sometimes exhibited a ludicrous contrast to their excessive refinement, could not remain wholly insensible to the captivations of their manner.

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As I grew up, I heard nothing talked about but conquests, and lovers, and captivations.

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

He interrogated the prisoner with official fierceness, but could obtain no other reply than the general declaration, that he was a traveller come to see the captivations of Italy.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) Various

The Prince of Wales, then under all the captivations of Whig balls and banquets, and worshiping at the feet of Fox, was no sooner to be master of the state by an unlimited Regency Bill, than Fox was to be master of every thing.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

To accept her situation as a decree of fate, to fawn upon the mistress like a patient slave, and, if the lord were to tire of her in the end and give himself up to other captivations, to submit unmurmuringly to the unavoidable necessity?

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Perhaps the young soldier did not yield himself the less readily to these captivations that Kate Kearney's manner towards him was studiously cold and ceremonious.

Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

Italy, therefore, presented to him manifold captivations -- he thought of fiddling, but he talked only of his wife's health.

Godolphin, Volume 4. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Italy, therefore, presented to him manifold captivations -- he thought of fiddling, but he talked only of his wife's health.

Godolphin, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Still less could you deem it to be of the nature of an experiment, (which implies uncertainty,) to make the attempt with ideal forms of nobleness or beauty, with intellectual, poetical, or moral captivations.

An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806