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Sentences ending with tempted

He had offers without number to take service in foreign armies, but he was not to be tempted. [11]
You will be sorely tempted. [6]
She remembered a saying of Mrs. Brice, "Blessed are the ugly, for they shall not be tempted. [9]
There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. [11]
And he wondered if man were ever more tempted. [9]
But A---- and I strolled together through the Palais Royal in the evening, and amused ourselves by staring at the glittering windows without being severely tempted. [6]
Had she ever done aught to shame the best that was in herself--and had she not been sorely tempted? [11]
People oughtn't to be tempted. [12]
I felt my anger growing big within me, until I grew afraid of what I would do if I were tempted. [9]
I was tempted. [11]

More example sentences with the word tempted in them

It's kind of you to take it like this, sir, seeing you've never been tempted and mightn't understand. [11]
When Orion tempted you to perjure yourself, did he behave as my friend or as my foe, my bitterest and most implacable enemy? [10]
The South flushed with triumph and tempted to excess; the North, betrayed as they believe, brooding on wrong and burning for revenge. [7]
Face to face with the man who had tempted him to crime, Lygon had a new sense of boldness, a sudden feeling of reprisal, a rushing desire to put the screw upon him. [11]
We tempted him with the delicacies of the season, but it soon became impossible for him to eat, and for two weeks he ate or drank scarcely anything. [4]
Thick cushions, covered with lion and panther-skins, tempted fatigue or indolence; and when the hero of the hour joined his guests, after his progress through the precincts, every couch was occupied. [10]
Woe to those who allow themselves to be tempted on board by the magnificence of its decorations! [10]
There was little which an artist would be tempted to sketch, or a traveller by the railroad would be likely to remember. [6]
Even Mr. Holt, when not munching his dried bread, was tempted to make some inquiries about the market. [9]
But on the way thither the evil angel tempted him and he got drunk again. [5]
If Mark Twain was tempted, we get no hint of it in his answer. [5]
And though I was often tempted to climb it, I felt that disobedience was disloyalty to my father. [9]
More than once was I tempted to blurt out the whole wretched business, for I well understood there was some deep game between him and Grafton. [9]
But as he walked languidly along, some ladies saw him across the street, and seeing, were moved with pity, and pitying, spoke such soft words that he was tempted to accept their invitation and rest awhile beneath their hospitable roof. [6]
The Italian of to-day does not willingly emigrate, is tempted by no seduction of better fortune in any foreign clime. [4]
He felt tempted to throw himself down in the road and sleep, but remembered the frozen people of whom he had heard, and dragged himself on to the nearest village. [10]
He felt that to stay near the man was to be tempted to murder. [9]
I was tempted to say: "You and Mr. Allen should know these roads rather well, Miss Thorn. [9]
Her vain attempts to rouse the sleeper, though somewhat pathetic, had in them at the same time something irresistibly ludicrous, and Pollux felt sorely tempted to laugh. [10]
I was tempted to present myself at Sir Edmund's door as one who knew something about the Lechmeres in America, but I did not feel sure how cordially a descendant of the rebels who drove off Richard and Mary Lechmere would be received. [6]
Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. [7]
She was tempted to go out on the balcony, and she sat down there on a rocking chair. [10]
He was tempted to go home and tell his wife what had happened, and begin his preparations for the future at once. [8]
He tempted her to express her opinion on all points, and he laughed so amiably at the boldness and humorous vigor of her ideas that she was delighted with him. [8]
If sometimes tempted to exercise it, the impulse was roused far more frequently by those of her own station, who were base in mind and heart, than by the sufferers in the hospital. [10]
He invited me to eat, and the food they brought might have tempted a full man to excess, but I could only swallow a few mouthfuls. [10]
With Barouche's death to Carnac it was as though he himself had put aside for ever the armour of war, for Barouche was the only man in the world who had ever tempted him to fight, or whom he had fought. [11]
One was tempted to ask: "What forlorn hope have you led? [6]
From time to time the offer of one office or another tempted him, but he wisely, or luckily, resisted. [5]
It was as though Fate had deliberately tempted him and arranged the necessary conditions, for Soolsby's feet were in a little pool of liquid which had been spilled on the floor--the experiment was exact and real. [11]
But, unfortunately for those who are tempted, issues are never put quite so plainly by the heralds of destiny and penalty. [11]
Among other witnesses, there is one who had a 'jumping toothache,' which several times tempted her to 'believe that there was sensation in matter, but each time it was overcome by the power of Truth. [5]
Among other witnesses there is one who had a "jumping toothache," which several times tempted her to "believe that there was sensation in matter, but each time it was overcome by the power of Truth. [5]
I have declined them all, just as usual, though sorely tempted, as usual. [5]
The shadows of the houses and palm-trees lay like dark strips of carpet across the road, which was nearly empty in spite of the evening coolness, which usually tempted the citizens out into the air. [10]
It seems incredible that, after that experience and its attending disaster, he should have been tempted again. [5]
Others again averred that since her flight Carmen had become a loose woman in Montreal; but the New Cure came down on that with a blow which no one was tempted to invite again. [11]
I was strongly tempted, but I could not go there with propriety, because one goes in a boat. [5]
He often felt tempted to send Coello his ducats and tell him he had been hasty, and cherished no desire to wed his daughter; but perhaps that would break the heart of the poor, dear little thing, who loved him so tenderly! [10]
Wetherell was almost tempted to mention his trouble to this man, as he had been to Ephraim: the fear that each might think he wished to borrow money held him back. [9]
Madame Chalice was tempted to go and speak to her, and started to do so, but turned back. [11]
At last he spoke: "Verily, Croesus, I the great god, the 'sun of righteousness,' 'the son of Neith,' 'the lord of warlike glory,' as the Egyptians call me, am tempted to envy thee, dethroned and plundered as thou art. [10]
These men are so thoroughly acclimatised to their cold and lofty abode, that when formerly carried down by the Spaniards to the low eastern plains, and when now tempted down by high wages to the gold-washings, they suffer a frightful rate of mortality. [1]
Sirona was now sitting at her loom in the front room, whither she had been tempted by the sound of approaching hoofs. [10]
I ought to say that I fixed the wages after the work was done, or I might have been tempted to do as some masons did who worked for me at four dollars a day. [4]
If I could report a dinner-table conversation, I might be tempted to say something of my talk with Mr. Oliphant. [6]
The idea was put away from me, and yet it was a fresh accent of Doltaire's character that he tempted me in this way. [11]
These last are prompted by Douglas going there; and I am really tempted to make a flying trip to Columbus and Cincinnati. [7]
She tempted the poor fellow to her ship, only to cast him off at the end of a month for another. [10]
They sweep round on foraying excursions, ride the salt waves in ships, and know no loved and fixed home; they settle down wherever they are tempted by rapine, and when there is nothing more to be got they build a house in another spot. [10]
The cash sum offered looked very large to Mark Twain, and he was sorely tempted to accept it. [5]
But the virus of commercialism was in us, too; it forbade us to make the best of a divine institution, and tempted us to make the worst. [8]
Detricand still would not be tempted out of his composure. [11]
Not a plant, not a creeping thing, showed itself against the weird forms of the barren grey and brown rocks, and no soaring bird tempted the oppressed wretches to raise their eyes to heaven. [10]
The `good' soldier never tries to distinguish right from wrong, he never thinks, he never reasons, he only obeys--" "But," Janet was tempted to say, "your syndicalism declares that none of us should think or reason. [9]
He lacked the necessary reticence, and arsenic had not availed him, though it had tempted Billy Wantage to forgery; and because Billy hid himself behind the dismal opportunity of silence, had ruined the name of a dead man called Charley Steele. [11]
I took one myself, drawn by an old man, to see how I liked it, and found it very convenient, but I was tempted to ask him to change places and let me drag him. [6]
For one brief moment he, too, had been tempted to doubt her innocence. [10]
And for the moment (let one confess it who knows), Virginia was almost tempted to lay her arm in his. [9]
Twichell, in the mean time, told the story to Clemens, who was delighted with it and strongly tempted to write it at once, while he was in the spirit, without waiting on Chew. [5]
That seems to me so dear that I am not tempted into any speculation, but stroll back to the Tramontano, in the gardens of which I find better terms. [4]
Some of the mansion-house people obtained rare flowers which they sent her, and her table was covered with fruits which tempted her in vain. [6]
She had taken leave of her grandfather and was returning to the other waggon, when she was tempted by the coolness of the night to linger for a little while in the air. [12]
He liked that laugh, and though he was tempted to look at her, he did not want to show his surprise or his pleasure. [13]
Nothing of the jungle had been in their thoughts, though they had been tempted, and love and the moment's despair had stung them to take revenge in each other's arms; yet they had kept the narrow path. [11]
Several times, in its progress, I was tempted to do as Adam did, who abandoned his garden on account of the weeds. [4]
I'd have scorned it, if they had tried and tempted me for twenty years. [12]
What I mean is, that the fascination of using this hoe is such that you are sorely tempted to employ it upon your vegetables, after the weeds are laid low, and must hastily withdraw it, to avoid unpleasant results. [4]
She was tempted into staying longer. [9]
The things I intended to say to King George for the good of himself and his kingdom, which I had thought out on the steamer Lubeck and rehearsed to my guide a few hours before, would not be tempted forth. [11]
Again and again I was tempted, but was never convinced that his time had come; yet through all the years he was gaining strength, securing possession of my mind, and gathering to him, magnet-like, the thousand observations which my experience sent in his direction. [11]
Manny's the time I was tempted to dhrink it myself, and manny's the time something said to me, 'Not yet. [11]
At this point I strike out some other praiseful things which I was tempted to add. [5]
He even asked how I, whom he had believed to be a serious worker, had been tempted into such "side issues. [10]
Are there no homes where the tempter does not live with the tempted in a mush of sentimental affinity? [4]
The rain tempted him into the open air. [10]
She was too high-minded to blame him for having tempted her to her failure with them by his talk about them; but she was conscious of avoiding them in her talk. [8]
To-day Kasana expressed her delight at the Hebrew's return with such entire frankness and absence of reserve that the quick-tempered man rushed out of the house lest he might be tempted into some thoughtless act or word. [10]
Think not that he tempted me. [11]
Nay, if Semestre had tempted her with the sweetest cakes, she would not have left her favorite nook by the spring now. [10]
At length, he gave the matter up, as hopeless for that night, and suddenly breaking into a run as though to force himself away, scampered off at his utmost speed, nor once ventured to look behind him lest he should be tempted back again. [12]
Then he had fled because the pleasures and joys of life had tempted him forth--then he had sinned indeed; but now the love, the anxious care that urged him to quit his prison were the same as had brought him back to it. [10]
But her passionate feeling is so strong, and the change in her whole being so great, that sometimes I too am tempted to believe in the use of supernatural influence. [10]
Such miseries must fall on thy innocent head without it, that I cannot believe but that, being tempted, it will come at last! [12]
They are thus exposed to early death during war, are often tempted into vice, and are prevented from marrying during the prime of life. [1]
Madame Lavilette had encouraged, had even tempted, the spontaneous and jovial Farcinelle. [11]
After reading what Emerson says about "the masses," one is tempted to ask whether a philosopher can ever have "a constituency" and be elected to Congress? [6]
I have set down the titles of a hundred or more, and I have often been tempted to publish these, for according to my idea, the title of a book very often renders the rest of it unnecessary. [6]
She closed the door a little more, and I felt tempted to put my foot in the crack. [9]
These and the delight in nature with which I here renewed my old bond tempted more than one of us to write, and very different poems, deeper and with more true feeling, than those produced in Kottbus. [10]
Here it was dark, but at the end of the alley the sea shone and sparkled in the moonlight; the splashing of the waves tempted him onwards and he loitered clown to the stone-bound shore. [10]
The furtive hangers-on, cut- throats, mendicants, followers of Boonda Broke, and haters of the English, lurked in the Bazaars, and Gis-yo-Bahim should be tempted for the first and the last time. [11]
A college periodical, conducted by friends of mine, still undergraduates, tempted me into print, and there is no form of lead-poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the young author through mental contact with type-metal. [3]
There was something comic in his rueful bewilderment to March, who was tempted to smile, but he said to himself that he had as much reason to be unhappy as Fulkerson, and he did not smile. [8]
He himself had been tempted to speak of it in their terrible interview that morning; but he had refrained. [11]
Ulrich might have been tempted to occupy the palace of Baron de Hierges, but passed it by, selecting as a home for his mother and himself a pretty little house on the market-place, which reminded him of his father's smithy. [10]
His mother had been tempted from her duty while her noble and generous husband was alive, and this husband was supposed to have been poisoned by her and her paramour. [4]
Had it not been so abominable, it would have tempted her to laugh. [10]
I have not been in the habit of making predictions, but I am almost tempted now to hazard one. [7]
It will be as well to stop that young screamer though, in case I should be tempted to do him a mischief. [12]

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