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  • We have heard of swoons and hysterics along the more impressionable audiences of La Scala, during the performance of the ballet of "La Vestale;" and have witnessed with admiration the striking effect of the fascinative scene in "Faust."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

  • I found the article fascinative, as Lewis writes about what he knows (always a welcome approach).

    Maggie's Farm 2008

  • This prophecy, however, it seems proper to remark -- the author having no desire to encourage the growth of superstition, or to degrade the dignity of historical research by dazzling weak powers of perception with the fascinative influence of the marvellous -- was considered, at the time of it's being pronounced, as nothing more than a mere harmless Hibernicism; originating in the zeal of Father M'Cormick, a very honest and worthy Irish priest, who had come from Rome to Naples, disgusted at the enormities of the French.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

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