"Hypnotize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... kill you dead to see a fool boy side up to a hyena cage and try to hypnotize a hyena by kind words and a pious example, saying soothing words like: "Soo, boss," or "O, come off now, and be a good fellow," and see the hyena snarl and show his teeth like an anarchist that a multi-millionaire might try to tame so he would take a ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck
... himself—mostly with an air of reserve, backed by intimations calculated to lead a man to believe he was really hearing something, and counter-questions skilfully dropped into the gravity of the occasion. Those who could not be put off by Sawdy were turned over to Lefever, who could hypnotize a man by asking questions, and send him away satisfied, but vacantly speculative as to whether he was ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... great thing to paint a beautiful picture, but 't is a more difficult feat to hypnotize the public into accepting ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard
... he thought I was hurting the institution. See what they did to poor little Combes, who mildly claimed to be able to hypnotize people." ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... far away, as of distant, dull beating on thick metal, is suddenly audible. Falder shrinks back, not able to bear this sudden clamor. But the sound grows, as though some great tumbril were rolling towards the cell. And gradually it seems to hypnotize him. He begins creeping inch by inch nearer to the door. The banging sound, traveling from cell to cell, draws closer and closer; Falder's hands are seen moving as if his spirit had already joined in this beating, and the sound swells ...
— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman
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