My companion got up, giving him a thin glance which I caught in its passage, and which expressed a strange commixture of resignation and fascination,-a sort of perverted exaltation.
"Four Meetings"
Henry James
The stupefying events that have recently revolutionized the Russian state have given the world an inkling of the secrets of the Slavic type of temperament, so mystifying in its commixture of simplicity and strength on the one hand with grossness and stupidity, and on the other hand with the highest spirituality and idealism.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
Though foiled for a time, he never lost sight of the hoped-for alliance, which, with a deft commixture of force and persuasion, he gained seven years later after the crushing blow of Friedland.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose