fascination

“But what was the meaning of it all?” said Mowgli, who did not know anything of a python’s powers of fascination.

“You’ll have to learn to resist the fascination of Idle-whatever-you-call-it.

It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla.

Franz, who seemed attracted by some invisible influence towards the count, in which terror was strangely mingled, felt an extreme reluctance to permit his friend to be exposed alone to the singular fascination that this mysterious personage seemed to exercise over him, and therefore made no objection to Albert’s request, but at once accompanied him to the desired spot, and, after a short delay, the count joined them in the salon.