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Usage examples of charmed.

As a dinner guest at Fairhill during the First Congress, Adams was charmed.

Cordoba Avenue in Buenos Aires, the very place where the Russian Trade Minister Gregor Komoyedov had charmed the jackboots off the two Argentinian officers.

It will be an excellent test no matter what, and we might just eliminate Boolean in the process, although I fear he leads a life as charmed as that girl we have been chasing.

And so she smiled and charmed, and asked nothing in return of Cedra, neither word nor nod.

Charmed with the prospect of doing the honours of the table, Tonine only asked me if my friends would go away after supper.

My feet were motionless, but mid the glooms Darted my charmed eyes--1834.

She welcomed her with great amiability, as charmed by her beauty as by her intelligence, for the Morisca was exceptionally endowed with both, and all the people in the city, as if summoned by a pealing bell, came to see her.

Every time he snuggled down in his favorite position to dish the dirt, elbows on workbench, hindquarters stuck out and usually bristling with tools shoved in his pockets, furry chin in scarred hands, Anna was charmed and tickled.

Someone had charmed a bagful of chocolate-raspberry cream puffs from the palace pastry chef.

He was charmed with the scenery and solitude about Rhyaider Gowy, in Radnorshire, which lies amidst romantic mountains, and in immediate vicinity to a cataract of the Wye.

Rassigart was charmed by this candid young ingenue, and Shina had already adored the Prince for weeks.

Yet though he was sensible of sinking health, hope did not at once desert him: he continued to pour out such tender strains, and to show such flashes of wit and humour at the call of Thomson, as are recorded of no other lyrist: neither did he, when in company after his own mind, hang the head, and speak mournfully, but talked and smiled and still charmed all listeners by his witty vivacities.

If his Tartuffe has charmed him so, why let him Just marry him himself--no one will hinder.

Indolence, their wildest ire is charmed into the torpor of the bat, slumbering out the rigours of winter, in the chink of a ruined wall.

Instead of going downstairs I went into the next room, and two minutes after who should enter but my sweetheart, who looked charmed and yet puzzled at my appearance.