inthralling

It is not impossible that you may regard as very nice people or even as quite fascinating and inthralling people, certain people whom I regard as intensely disagreeable.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

It was all a strange, unusual, inthralling romance to them.

Wayside Courtships Hamlin Garland 1900

These low hillocks and shallow dells, running one into another, became a kind of cloak of darkness for my inthralling, but perhaps dishonorable, pursuit.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

Varieties, for Mr. Oakhurst's especial benefit, as she had often assured him; nor yet as a douceur to the inthralling Miss Montmorrissy, with whom Mr. Oakhurst expected to sup that evening; but simply for himself, and, mayhap, for the flowers 'sake.

Tales of the Argonauts Bret Harte 1869

Such tempting suspense, such strange discoveries, such wild fancies, such inthralling terrors, all belonged to that life.

The Queen of Hearts Wilkie Collins 1856

The windows and doors of Major St. John's cottage were open, and as he mounted the piazza the group around the whist-table was in full view -- the major contracting his bushy eyebrows over his hand as if not altogether satisfied, Mrs. Mayburn looking at hers with an interest so faint as to suggest that her thoughts were wandering, and Hilland with his laughing blue eyes glancing often from his cards to the fair face of his partner, as if he saw there a story that would deepen in its inthralling interest through life.

His Sombre Rivals Edward Payson Roe 1863