It was very reposeful (when one felt one could get away for a little while), but I think the absolute calm and monotony would pall upon one, and the "Call of the World"the struggling, living, joyous world outside the wallswould be an irresistible temptation.

The Boy stopped and hesitated; it was a sore temptation to climb up and see what they had in that cache.

"The danger of sudden temptation to indulge the lawless appetites with which heredity has endued usme from the nameless forebears whom I never knew, you directly from parents both of whom boasted criminal records.

Moreover, the possession of such splendid machinery of warfare is a constant temptation to employ it and so vindicate its staggering expense.

" "The men of science have," I replied, "like every other class, their especial bias, their peculiar professional temptation.

From that time forward he had burnt with a fierce fire of godliness which, together with a natural incapacity for seeing two sides to anything, had carried him safely through the manifold temptations to unbelief and heresy which beset a modern college education.

You see what a poor weak rogue I am, and what a criminal I might become with a little temptation.

The power which a concurrent knowledge of two separate kinds of science had given to a very few Terrestrials, and which all the science of a far more enlightened race had failed to attain, was in my conscientious conviction a Providential trust; withheld from those in whose hands it might be a fearful temptation and an instrument of unbounded evil.

Again, Lancelot quite agreed with his uncle, that though covetousness might be idolatry, yet money-making could not be called covetousness; and that, on the whole, though making haste to be rich was denounced as a dangerous and ruinous temptation in St. Paul's times, that was not the slightest reason why it should be so now.

Best of all, he has resisted the subtle temptation to be even momentarily too clever for his audience (you know the devastating effect that may be produced if a grown-up pauses on the edge of the circle and reminds the story-teller that he has a reputation for wit).

Just think of the awful temptations to which unmarried students are exposed in that sink of profligacy, Calcutta!

It was a wicked, horrible, temptation of the devil.

if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!

But, where the predisposition so indubitably exists, it is inevitable, soon or late it must come to you, my dearthe time when the will is too weak, temptation too strong.

"You look like an uncommonly honest, straightforward young woman," Mr. Woods added, handsomely, "and I don't believe you'd purloin under the severest temptation.

Choleric he is not by nature so much as his art, and it is a shrewd temptation that the chopping-knife is so near.

It is very doubtful whether any of these contrivances satisfy all the conditions required in a plan for feeding furnaces of the ordinary form by self-acting means, but the problem of providing a suitable contrivance, does not seem difficult of accomplishment, and will no doubt be effected under adequate temptation.

Why should not they be asked to think how these striving girls have to pray daily, 'Lead us not into temptation,' while temptations innumerable stand everywhere about them?

We are not in the least infallible; we come face to face with fierce temptations; we have heart-breaking sorrows; we are burdened with anxiety and perplexity.

Well, my friends, and the very danger of these spiritual temptations is that they do not look like temptations.

There are many most deeply taught Christians here, many whose faces shine, but I should say, comparing my home life (but few have such a home) with that of the deaconesses here, I should say that, in many positions here, there are more, not only daily but hourly temptations.

Oh, how bitter this temptation was no creature can understand but such as feel the grief of such darts as Satan casts at the tender conscience of those that gladly would rest and repose in God, and in the promises of His mercy.

It wouldn't have been the slightest temptation even" he smiled a little sadly"even with Carlotta thrown in.

They are incessantly exposed to multiplied and powerful temptations.

Full many a slice of apple I have lifted from a pie Before the upper crust went on, escaping Mother's eye; Full many a time my fingers small in artfulness have strayed Into some sweet temptation rare which Mother's hands had made; But eager-eyed and watery-mouthed, I craved the greater boon, When Mother let me clean the dish and lick the frosting spoon.