spell-bound

“My warlord escaped Mount Meru two days ago with eight more soldiers, then we went to South America to free Tristan from a spell-bound cage.”

Blood Trinity Sherrilyn Kenyon 2010

But what took my eye was the dense throng of people watching, hardly more than a long stone's throw away - there were hundreds of 'em, among the armoury sheds and outside the gates on the open ground towards the railroad tracks, militia mostly, but many townsmen, and women and children, too, all spell-bound in a strange silence broken only by the steady tread of the two approaching officers.

THE NUMBERS 2010

The Republicans stirred at first, murmuring with approval of the words of Barack; and then they too were silent, as men spell-bound.

We Shall Never Surrender…We Shall Never Yield. | RedState 2010

“My warlord escaped Mount Meru two days ago with eight more soldiers, then we went to South America to free Tristan from a spell-bound cage.”

Blood Trinity Sherrilyn Kenyon 2010

Right now she's on a virtual-reality journey to South West Africa, sitting spell-bound at the feet of her master, John McDottard, learning all about international geography.

David Frum: Palin "Makes Barack Obama Look Like George C. Marshall" 2009

I was constantly encouraged to read the series and when I finnally did I was completely spell-bound.

A Defence of Dragons, Part 1 Adam Whitehead 2009

I knew too well the power of female charms not to be sure that I should be spell-bound, if I made my appearance before I had seen the extraordinary curiosities with which this insular spot abounds, and been taken for a very stupid fellow.

The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

It looks so obvious now, but it seems that for six years we were so spell-bound by the WHO and the WHY and the HOW of 911 that we have mostly omitted to begin by a close forensic examination of WHAT happened!

Honouring the Real Truth of Ground Zero 2008

Aroused by the imminence of the danger, Arthur, by an instinctive attempt at self-preservation, drew cautiously back from the falling crag into the tree by which he had ascended, and turned his head back as if spell-bound, to watch the descent of the fatal rock from which he had just retreated.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Am I spell-bound? — or have I till now been under the influence of a spell, that I feel as another being, yet am conscious of remaining the same?

The Monastery 2008