52 examples of enticement in sentences

Thyroid poverty is a splendid enticement to the universal microbe.

How far remote from mortal vanities, Baits to the soul, enticements to the eye!

"The great point, however, in this case is this,By the judge's instructions, enticement must be proved.

The object of this testimony was, to lead to a conclusion of enticement or persuasion on my part, and so to bring the case within one of the judge's instructions already stated.

It irritates and dries the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, producing an unnatural thirst which becomes an enticement to the use of intoxicating liquors.

Ay, girl, I know thou shalt be offer'd wealth, Which is a shrewd enticement in sad want, Great honours to lift up thy low estate,

And well do I mind how she stood there in her bridal dress, on that day, so slender and lovely as may Love have stood in the Dawn of Life; and the beauty of her eyes that had such sober sweetness in them, despite the dear mischief of her nature; and the way of her little feet, and the loveliness of her hair; and the dainty rogue-grace of her movements; and her mouth an enticement, as that a child and a woman smiled out of the one face.

And 'tis as great an enticement as any of the rest, [4980] "subrisit molle puella, Cor tibi rite salit.

Nakedness, as I have said, is an odious thing of itself, remedium amoris; yet it may be so used, in part, and at set times, that there can be no such enticement as it is; "Nec mihi cincta Diana placet, nec nuda Cythere, Illa voluptatis nil habet, haec nimium.

Philocharus, a gallant in Aristenaetus, advised his friend Poliaenus to take heed of such enticements, [5004]"for it was the sweet sound and motion of his mistress's spangles and bracelets, the smell of her ointments, that captivated him first," Illa fuit mentis prima ruina meae.

11. are lascivientium delicicae, the chief delight of lovers, must needs be a great enticement.

They will deny and take, stiffly refuse, and yet earnestly seek the same, repel to make them come with more eagerness, fly from if you follow, but if averse, as a shadow they will follow you again, fugientem sequitur, sequentem fugit; with a regaining retreat, a gentle reluctancy, a smiling threat, a pretty pleasant peevishness they will put you off, and have a thousand such several enticements.

For the Panic of the Wilderness had called to him in that far voicethe Power of untamed Distancethe Enticement of the Desolation that destroys.

The joys which spring from virtue are an adornment of it, not an enticement to it; they are its result, not its aim.

Why not yield to the enticement of this current, fleet and clear, and gain a few beautiful miles before nightfall?

and do you not hold it forth as a bait and enticement to accede to your new opinions?

This, however, is to be understood as spoken of the male sex, because it has enticements which actually inflame it; but not of the female sex.

To those who have the special knowledge that is requisite, the caverns of the Causses de Sauveterre and Méjan offer great enticement, for only a few of their secrets, covered by the darkness of incalculable ages, have yet been brought to light.

But so far as the black snake is concerned, it seems to be nothing more than an enticement or allurement with which the snake is endowed to procure his fowl.

Bemoin here saw his ruin approaching, and, hoping that money would pacify all resentment, borrowed of his friends a sum sufficient to discharge his debts; and finding that even this enticement would not delay the departure of the Portuguese, he embarked his nephew in their ships with a hundred slaves, whom he presented to the king of Portugal, to solicit his assistance.

Enticement, by Clive Arden [pseud.]

Enticement, by Clive Arden [pseud.]

We shall drive away serpents; the enticement of the senses are these serpents.

For on the one hand lay the fierce enticement of Skale's heaven, with all that it portended, and on the other the deep though temporarily submerged human passion of his love for the girl.

It was under this spell that, dwelling upon the enticement of fruit good to look at, and pleasant to the taste, the Serpent denied Death, and thought of Good as separate from Evil.

52 examples of  enticement  in sentences