There will be nothing to attract these poor children to one centre. . Should a man of quality incline to sport there was ever something to attract him. Finally Number Thirteen cracked his long whip to attract their attention. However little one desires to attract, one may at least wish one's hat to be straight.
You are boasting of your merits, Sir: let merit be your boast; nothing else can attract me. People like a fight, and it will attract attention to the mine. And, if we do, it is doubtful if we can attract their attention. But this daring hypothesis has ceased to attract the attention it once received. Do you want to attract the attention of everybody on the deck? Whatever the motive for his masquerade, it was not to attract anything feminine.
Of the ability of people or animals to draw others to them, it is attested from 1560s; of physical forces magnetism, etc. Originally a medical term for the body's tendency to absorb fluids, nourishment, etc. . . . . .
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