“Over and over again, the song was played until the syncopations of her voice induced a sort of trance.”

“People sitting in the big top were in trances, distracted by the cracking of peanut hulls and dazzled by spangled spandex wardrobes.”

“They organise dances and gatherings to whip up the spirits, then go into trances.”

“He was a big, burly, baldish man, patient and good-natured, but given to blank trances of absence of mind.”