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Sentences starting with temptations

Temptations to conspiracy had been few since the day George Fournel, wounded and morose, left the Manor House secretly one night, and carried back to Quebec his resentment and his injuries. [11]
Temptations to Pierre's greatest weakness--the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the Lodge--were so strong that he could not resist them. [2]
Temptations lay all about him, and sometimes he was about to yield, but he would think of some precious lesson he learned in his Sunday School a long time ago, and that would save him. [5]

Sentences ending with temptations

And he had yielded at the first temptation, and the commonest of all temptations! [4]
If its increase was small its temptations were smaller, and that is no little recommendation in this world of temptations. [4]
He argued and thought--as every intelligent man in his position would have done--until he had come into the old life again, and into the presence of the old advantages and temptations! [11]
The first idea that flashed upon her mind was flight, instant flight; dragging him from that place, and rather dying of want upon the roadside, than ever exposing him again to such terrible temptations. [12]
They gave him special attractions and laid him open to not a few temptations. [6]
You will have sore temptations. [11]
You nor I, Miss Penniman, must not be the judges of any man or woman, for we know nothing of their problems or temptations. [9]
Well, I know life, and I know man and man's follies and temptations. [11]
He better knew its temptations. [4]
How powerless she is against these subtle invitations, these unknown and all-encompassing temptations! [4]

Short sentences using temptations

What struggles, temptations, sins? [11]
Her temptations had been few. [11]

More example sentences with the word temptations in them

You don't know, you can't know, what temptations you subject me to. [9]
Mr Swiveller, who was perfectly ravenous, and had had, all night, amazingly distinct and consistent dreams of mutton chops, double stout, and similar delicacies, felt even the weak tea and dry toast such irresistible temptations, that he consented to eat and drink on one condition. [12]
And temptations come to them in places where they don't look for them, and from persons they never thought of as tempters. [6]
Yet he seems to have been mainly intent upon society and the amusements of the passing hour, and, without the spur of necessity to his literary capacity, he yielded to the temptations of indolence, and settled into the unpromising position of a "man about town. [4]
There are temptations to all, and to them as often as to any, Susan Posey. [6]
Such placidity as theirs would never understand the nature of my temptations, and I pictured to myself their horror and despair at my revelation. [9]
He said that Thackeray described men from the inside, as it were; through his strong power of dramatic sympathy, he identified himself with certain characters, felt their temptations, entered into their pleasures, etc. [14]
Vast wealth has temptations which fatally and surely undermine the moral structure of persons not habituated to its possession. [5]
To see him, talk to him, feel his eyes on her now that her whole soul was overflowing with those dreadful, wicked temptations, was a torment of joy and terror. [2]
I had known such a woman, older, but with the same characteristics, the same struggles, temptations, and suffering the same restriction of her life and movements by the prejudice in her veins--the prejudice of racial predilection. [11]
Warming with his subject, he dilated with wonderful unction on the temptations springing from personal attractions. [6]
Holder's doubts were stilled, he had gained power of his temptations and peace for his soul, and he had gone forth inspired by the reminder that there was no student of whom the dean expected better things. [9]
These were temptations of the devil and Princess Mary knew it. [2]
Thoughts that had not entered her mind for years--thoughts of a life free from the fear of her father, and even the possibility of love and of family happiness--floated continually in her imagination like temptations of the devil. [2]
He thought it might be well, also, if he would say a few words to Myrtle Hazard, for whom a new life, with new and untried temptations, was about to open. [6]
He knew young men, their perplexities and temptations, and he dealt with them personally, like a father. [9]
Occasionally amid these memories temptations of the devil would surge into her imagination: thoughts of how things would be after his death, and how her new, liberated life would be ordered. [2]
The deeper into life and its labours and experiences he had gone, the greater had been his temptations, born of two passions, one of the body and its craving, the other of the heart and its desires: and he had fought on--towards the morning. [11]
His foster-brother, to his sorrow, was unable to resist the temptations which Satan scatters in Paris as the peasants elsewhere sow rye and oats, and the young knight was soon attacked, by a severe illness. [10]
Even in the highest places are temptations. [4]
Unless a thing has seized a man, has obsessed him, and he feels that it excludes all other temptations to his talent or his genius, his book will not convince. [11]
Careful watching can guard them from the transgressions to which there are many temptations, but not from the strong and varying impressions which life is constantly forcing upon them. [10]
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. [5]
The pastor, a fine-looking man of middle age, entered, and though I no longer remember his text, I recollect perfectly that he spoke of the temptations which threaten to lure us from the right paths and the means of resisting them. [10]
Without concealing her father's scruples, he added the assurance that he felt perfectly secure against the temptations of which there would certainly be no lack while he was in the service of a Protestant magistracy. [10]
He liked to dine and drink well, and though he considered it immoral and humiliating could not resist the temptations of the bachelor circles in which he moved. [2]
So he frankly confessed that he was well aware how few temptations his invitation offered a man endowed with Wolf's rare advantages, but he came by no means with empty hands--and he now informed the listening musician what he could offer him. [10]
So young, and burdened with such riches--to what temptations he will be exposed! [2]
But nothing must be expected from them if we are ill and thirsty; and what is to become of them when temptations and trials come, and to whom do they not come? [10]
The first function at which Margaret assisted in the long drawing-rooms of the Arbusers was a serious one--one that combined the charm of culture with the temptations of benevolence. [4]

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