286 examples of decoyed in sentences

Some asserted that she lost her way among the tangled mazes of the swamp, and sank into some pit or slough; others, more uncharitable, hinted that she had eloped with the household booty, and made off to some other province; while others surmised that the tempter had decoyed her into a dismal quagmire, on the top of which her hat was found lying.

Stories that the fleet was decoyed by the Germans are sheerest nonsense.

Like a kid decoyed to its death, the stealthy panther lures, Mocking the voice of its dam, thus he led the innocent child Through her tenderness down to ruin, he is a friend of yours, And admired by all; as you say, "men will be wild.

At one time three young men, Corpro, Banna, and Marbrour, were decoyed on board a Danish slave-ship, under pretence of buying something, and were taken away.

From this retreat he was decoyed by consummate art to the mainland, to meet the Turkish general, who promised an important command and a high rank in the Turkish service.

This nobleman had declared his acceptance of the dedication in a manner so gracious, that Mickle was once more decoyed with the hope of having found a powerful protector.

It is believed she was decoyed away by a free coloured man, well known on several steam-boats, now in the city.

Hasten then, young man, hasten; take the good which comes to thee, and be not decoyed by idle fancies; wait not till to-morrow to be glad.

I then produced the slate which I kept for that purpose, and informed her how many days and half-days her child had been absent during the last month, when she again assured me that she had never kept the child at home for a single half-day, nor had he ever told her that I wanted to see her; at the same time observing that be must have been decoyed away by some of the children in the neighbourhood.

" On March 11, 1821, Morse answers thus: "Tell Mr. Silliman I have stronger magnets at New Haven than any academy can have, and, while that is the case, I cannot be decoyed permanently from home.

"Come!" Mr. Abel who was naturally timid, hesitated; for he had heard of people being decoyed into strange places, to be robbed and murdered, under circumstances very like the present, by guides very like the Marchioness.

" What appears manifest from this document is that Michelangelo was decoyed away from Florence by some one, who, acting on his sensitive nervous temperament, persuaded him that his life was in danger.

Certainly Crockett had been decoyed out of your ground, not taken by force, or there would have been marks of a scuffle in the cinders.

They catch many a northern negro, who, in pursuit of his own business, or on being decoyed by others ventures to enter the slave region; and who, of course, helps to augment the wealth of our southern brethren.

Even when one of these girls is decoyed from the peaceful dwelling of her parents, and left by her infamous seducer a prey to poverty and prostitution in a brothel at Philadelphia, her whole appearance is neat, and breathes an air of modesty: you see nothing in her dress, language, or behaviour, that could give you any reason to guess at her unfortunate situation; (how unlike her unhappy sisters so circumstanced in England!)

"A school master decoyed the children of the principal citizens into the Roman camp."Ib., p. 39.

The criminal is made to say that a few months ago he had been decoyed and sold to foreigners.

In that desperate state of mind, she was decoyed by a woman, who kept a disreputable house.

My reason is this after they let the Dellaway Indian at liberty they met with some Cherokees whom they endeavoured to decoy, but finding they would not be decoyed they fired on them but they all made their Escape with the Loss of their arms and ammunition and one fellow wounded, who arrived yesterday.

He was decoyed to that flat by some woman, probably, who knew that nobody was in it, and was there murdered.

So, charging this way and that; galloping wildly in pursuit of the man who seemed to be fleeing for his life, or wheeling to do battle with the rider who kept just so far in his rear, he was decoyed to the very outskirts of the camp.

Death is like the insect Menacing the tree, Competent to kill it, But decoyed may be.

Death is like the insect Menacing the tree, Competent to kill it, But decoyed may be.

That was why he had been decoyed aboard, and made prisonerto keep him silent; to get him securely out of the way.

Faint and shadowy in our memory are certain ruined structures lingering Stonehenge-like on the Cambridge "Delta,"and mysterious pits adjoining, into which Freshmen were decoyed to stumble, and of which we find that vestiges still remain.

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