"No audacity at all. I am sure of my welcome. How often must I tell you that we have mesmerized each other, that lady and I, and only waiting an opportunity to rush into each other's arms. It began with her singling me out at the opera. But I dare say that was owing, _at first,_ only to my being in full dress.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Still he did not propose to give up as yet. "Well, George," he said, after Albert had gone out with instructions that Stener would see Sengstack in a moment. "I see how it is. This man has got you mesmerized. You can't act for yourself now-- you're too frightened. I'll let it rest for the present; I'll come back. But for Heaven's sake pull yourself together. Think what it means.英文原著 · 《The Financier》
March did not answer; he was mesmerized by the strange stones that glittered on the strange sword hilt; and their possible significance was broadening upon him like a dreadful dawn. It was a curious Asiatic weapon. He knew what name was connected in his memory with curious Asiatic weapons. Lord James spoke his secret thought for him, and yet it startled him like an irrelevance.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Knew Too Much》
MOLLY BYRNE -- [who has listened half mesmerized, starting away.] -- It's the like of that talk you'd hear from a man would be losing his mind.英文原著 · 《The Well of the Saints》