lodestone , also: loadstone

The girl's own soul was like a lodestone for such men.

Her eyes went to the view of space again, like iron to a lodestone.

It pulls at the mind and heart like a lodestone.

From the way all eyes swung toward him, he might have been a lodestone.

He got up and turned slowly, like a bit of lodestone searching out the south.

In an instant, he remembered what he'd been trying to remember about lodestones.

The process by which lodestone is created has long been an open question in geology.

Lodestone was used as an early form of magnetic compass.

All at once, as if drawn by a lodestone, his head swung to the left, toward the south.

He was convinced that it would be his lodestone, drawing him back.

As would a map and a lodestone if we could find one."

In the only true sense of the word power, it applies with equal force to the lodestone as to the human will.

He only knew that she had become his lodestone.

It was like feeling a knife twist in her hand toward a lodestone.

I was working like a human lodestone, following the compulsion that pulled me east.

He had a bad feeling that he might be short on lodestone.

When he had taken no more than six paces, the last of the lodestone powder ran out.

On top of these, they placed powerful lodestones, or magnets.

The rim of the full moon was appearing over the lodestone high above him.

"And what did the ancient world do with lodestones?"

Legends describe a lodestone on the top of the Sun temple.

He only knew he was being drawn here like a lodestone to north.

He was a lodestone to her eyes, and she was fascinated by him.

Soon his thoughts pointed like a compass to the lodestone of the white gold.

He has also worked on pieces that implemented the Earth's magnetic field using lodestones.