Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "charmed circle".
Beyond this charmed circle, for miles on every side, stretches a weary desert of sand and gravel, which produces a gray bunchy shrub like sage-brush.
Although her parents had made every effort to draw her into their charmed circle, she chose to remain standing outside, too shy to accept their invitation.
If he did believe in the authority of the Church, of institutions, then perhaps four years of sitting sequestered, outside the suspension of peace, which had lately convulsed the rest of the Old World, this quarantine might have brought him to some belief in Malta as a charmed circle, some stable domain of peace.
Laughing, she held out a hand for Deanna, as if to invite her into the charmed circle.
Gisela was enraged when she discovered the father of her sister's child did not intend to bring us into his charmed circle, and rather than accept the substantial sums he offered her to help raise me, she proudly, and foolishly, refused all subsidy.
I sat and watched and listened to that charmed circle and I swear there was no seduction on earth that would have persuaded me to leave it.
All her life she had yearned to be included in the charmed circle of a rich girl’.