charmer

"But anything suits you, my charmer!" she remarked.

"I told you he was a charmer," said Colin austerely.

It was not here that Charles Strickland lived in guilty splendour with the unknown charmer for whose sake he had abandoned honour and duty.

Lawson would become acquainted with some young thing and make an appointment; for twenty-four hours he would be all in a flutter and describe the charmer at length to everyone he met; but she never by any chance turned up at the time fixed.

And you shall see my poodle, too: a splendid little charmer imported from Paris: and two fine Italian paintings of great value--I forget the artist.

To say the truth, having seen but little of this kind of wit, he did not readily understand it, and for a long time imagined Mr Northerton had really mistaken his charmer for some other.

'Long banished Robinson Crusoe,' says the charmer, exchanging salutations, 'how did you leave the Island?'

She was talkin' 'bout the circus parade an' the snake charmer in a gold chariot, an' says she, `She was so beautiful beyond compare, Mr.

By the way, my charmer, have you seen me in my archer's ceremonial doublet?"

Carriages and opera-boxes, thought he; fancy being seen in them by the side of such a mahogany charmer as that!

'I told you, you rare charmer, you sweet witch, that you must stay and hear me, or do more harm than can ever be undone.

Even Mr Tappertit, though occupied as we have seen in gazing at his heart's delight, could not wholly divert his thoughts from the voice of the other charmer. Mrs Varden, to her own private thinking, had never been so improved in all her life; and when Mr Chester, rising and craving permission to speak with her apart, took her by the hand and led her at arm's length upstairs to the best sitting-room, she almost deemed him something more than human.