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The iron thus burnt is more brittle even than glass, and is easily reduced into powder, and is still attractable by the magnet, though not so powerfully as it was before combustion.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

Many are influenced because they vibrate similarly and many are influenced because they are attractable or weak.

From The Colored Girl Beautiful by Hackley, E. Azalia

Betty, even in the brown hat, attracted the most attractive of the porters—also, of course, the most attractable.

From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)