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She was not yet purged of her uncleanness, and yet you tempt her to an assignation, not even in the stranger's quarters--but in the holy house of this pure Divinity. [10]
The keen tradesmen who tempt us are like the fishermen who dangle a minnow, a frog, or a worm before the perch or pickerel who may be on the lookout for his breakfast. [6]
Did he merely want to tempt her from the vessel so as to clear the way for his young master? [10]
You may trust to what I say, no power shall tempt me to betray confidence. [5]
This brute dared to tempt her with money. [9]
If you're' willin' to take the risk, you tell 'em ten thousand dollars wouldn't tempt me. [9]
No choice remained to her; she must go at once to the hall of the Muses and see what had happened to her father, pick him up, give him help or--if he still were feasting--endeavor to tempt him back by any excuse she could find. [10]
If you want to catch mice you must waste bacon, and if we are to tempt men into a snare we must know what their notions and ideas are, and begin by endeavoring to confuse them. [10]
I have seen those of to-day: fine and tall, with breasts like apples, and a cheek to tempt a man like you, m'sieu'; no grease in the hair--no, M'sieu' Tybalt. [11]
They can tempt the men whom they prefer, and can sometimes reject those whom they dislike, either before or after marriage. [1]
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil had shaken its fruit into her lap, and, without any serpent to tempt her, she took thereof and did eat. [6]
Could he think that she would make advances to tempt his honour, and risk his good opinion and her own? [9]
It seems curious that Canton should make a second mistake and refuse it again, but publishers were wary in those days, and even the newspaper success of the Frog story did not tempt him to venture it as the title tale of a book. [5]
He should not tempt our Government too far. [11]
We tried to tempt him with the offer of a piece of toast: it was no temptation. [4]
What motive would tempt any set of men to go into an extensive survey of a railroad which they did not intend to make? [7]
Virginia, who had talked but little, disappeared with a tray on which she had placed with her own hands some dainties to tempt the Judge. [9]
But to measure stone, to batter defenceless blocks with a mallet and chisel, or to join the squares with accurate pains--that does not tempt me. [10]
No slight occasion should tempt us to touch it. [7]
He may have said them the time that he tried to tempt her to soil her honor, but after that he mentions her usually with a sneer. [5]
Since she had resolved to build the tomb, granting it became impossible, yet Octavianus made every effort to tempt her to the base deed. [10]
It was inherited predisposition, the unregulated passions of her forebears, the mating of the fields, the generated dominance of the body, which was not to be commanded into obscurity, but must taunt and tempt her while her soul sickened. [11]
None of the people must learn the message he brought, lest it should tempt them to turn aside from the dangerous path they had entered. [10]
Here was the old passion awakened again in her grandfather's breast, and to what further distraction it might tempt him Heaven only knew. [12]
Neither by birth nor education were the travelers fishermen on Sunday, and they were not moved to tempt the authorities to lock them up for dropping here a line and there a line on the Lord's day. [4]
They have the name of stealing from each other now and then, it is true, but many of their priceless possessions would hardly tempt a beggar. [6]
It might tempt me to satisfy your curiosity less speedily, but, after the delightful entertainment you gave us, my Lord Burgrave, one becomes merciful. [10]
We did not know whether to smile or to drop a tear, as we contemplated these baits hung out to tempt the coins from the exiguous purses of ancient maidens, forlorn widows, withered annuitants, stranded humanity in every stage of shipwrecked penury. [6]
The false prophet invented it to tempt his followers to force his lying creed, by might of arms and in mad contempt of death, on nation after nation. [10]
In his eyes, in the eyes of Framley, it had been the brew especially prepared by Sheitan to tempt to ruin the feeble ones of the earth. [11]
He said to himself that if he had strength enough to get back to the spring he would stay there, and nothing should tempt him to run the risk of meeting Injun Joe again. [5]
I can tempt him to speak of it, I think. [11]
Her sister gave her a frowning glance, and Margaret did not tempt her to explain. [8]
They had emerged from their isolation to tempt popular favour, had contrived many designs and ambitions, and in the midst of their largest hopes were humiliated, and were followed by resentment. [11]
The "Dutch Herodotus, Diedrich Knickerbocker," to use the phrase of a toast, having come out of one such encounter with fair credit, did not care to tempt Providence further. [4]
Possibly I may come and see how she is getting on if you do,--won't that tempt you, Mrs. C. [6]
We found no bait To tempt us in thy country. [6]
A word and a smile now and then from an acquaintance did not tempt him to come out of his seclusion. [4]

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