Murder in the city casts a peculiar spell, a mixture of horror, fascination and relief.

Another moment and Suffolk might have tried to break the peculiar spell by a sharp remark addressed to Troy.

She is also looking back from a distance of many years, recalling the opera they composed together and the peculiar spell it cast.

Maybe living by herself-without a man-had something to do with these peculiar spells.

They were both coming under the peculiar spell and this wasn't trickery.

He was silent, studying her, as if she had flung some peculiar spell over herself- "You would walk into a strange land to search for her?"

A peculiar spell was on them, wrapping them within themselves.

But Long Island seems to have cast a peculiar magnetic spell over the compass.

She liked the cottage as much as he did, it cast its own peculiar spell, but it wasn't something out of Grimm.

But I had not gone much farther when I realized the peculiar mental and emotional spell which the far-off sound was beginning to exert upon me.