And he opened his watch-case as he spoke, and displayed a small miniature in enamel, of marvellous beauty and captivation. |
Certainly, he reflected, no preparations were in progress in this quarter for his captivation. |
The stakes that seduction holds between two or more individuals is twofold : captivation and pleasure. |
Indeed, all of Graham's proud, flawed characters are stunningly and utterly flawed, and they steal the reader's captivation. |
She was not, it is true, of the ordinary type of beauty, whose chief ornament is an effort at captivation. |
If all the varied hues of captivation her changing humor wore were but the deep practised lures of coquetry? |