What is "attractions"

Usage examples of "attractions".

Her slender figure, her prominent hips, her beautifully-modelled bosom, her large eyes, from which flashed the sparkle of amorous desire, everything about her was strikingly beautiful, and presented to my hungry looks the perfection of the mother of love, adorned by all the charms which modesty throws over the attractions of a lovely woman.

Her story had been told with too much simplicity not to move me, especially when I had her before my eyes, for she possessed all the attractions which a woman can have, and I almost forgave her father for forgetting she was his daughter and falling in love with her.

This visit had added to her other attractions the charm of a good manner, which always counts for so much.

That when my old face was gone from me, and I had no attractions, he could love me just as well as in my fairer days.

I will see what I can do, and I have good hopes of doing you a considerable service and of rendering you well content with the attractions of Soleure.

Its vast wings produced by the outburst are twisted into spirals by their rotation and the contending attractions exercised upon them, as the two suns, like battleships in desperate conflict, curve round each other, concentrating their destructive energies.

The sanguine temperament rendered me very sensible to the attractions of voluptuousness: I was always cheerful and ever ready to pass from one enjoyment to another, and I was at the same time very skillful in inventing new pleasures.

It may be objected that it would be unfair to add this opportunity to the already, overpowering attractions of woman, and that man would be put at an immense disadvantage, since he might have too much gallantry, or not enough presence of mind, to refuse a proposal squarely and fascinatingly made, although his judgment scarcely consented, and his ability to support a wife were more than doubtful.

On the other hand, all this may go for nothing with the girl herself, who is conscious of the possession of quite other powers and attractions in a varied and constantly changing toilet, which can reflect her moods from hour to hour.

Women with their attractions, not to speak of their wiles, can do anything they set out to do.

One might end his days here in serene retrospection, and more cheaply than in other places of fewer attractions, for it is all Past and no Future.

But however delightful the scenery of the country might be, its aesthetic attractions did not sufficiently counterbalance its agricultural disadvantages.

While my companion was thus amusing herself, Noce, unconscious of her panegyric on his personal attractions, joined us.

He is ceremonious, stately, most polite on every occasion to my Lady, and holds her personal attractions in the highest estimation.

The effects of their attractions upon one another can only be inferred from their clustering, because their relative movements are not apparent on account of the brevity of the observations that we can make.