Dying of impatience, ennui, and love, Croisilles one morning took his two hundred louis and went out, determined to tempt fortune with this sum, since he could not have more.

What a green cloth, on which to boldly tempt fortune!

Thus kindly tempt the famished swarm to eat, 340 And gently reconcile them to their meat.

This only law the victor shall restrain, On these conditions shall he reign; If none his guilty hand employ To build again a second Troy, If none the rash design pursue, 110 Nor tempt the vengeance of the gods anew.

The prostrate wretch lifts up her arms in prayer; 110 Her arms grow shaggy, and deformed with hair, Her nails are sharpened into pointed claws, Her hands bear half her weight, and turn to paws; Her lips, that once could tempt a god, begin To grow distorted in an ugly grin.

If, on the other hand, he be a man of but moderate piety, ability, and firmness, the importunity of friends at a distance, who may wish to provide for dependents or connections, and other considerations which need not be enumerated, may tempt him to lower the standard of ministerial qualification, of which he is, of course, the sole judge.

He even tried to tempt me by unrolling my shadow on the heath.

The devil, in the character of Mephistopheles, asks permission to tempt Faust; he boasts his ability to get entire possession of his soul and drag him down to hell.

And, in truth, she put up her lips to me, very sudden, and with a strange naughtiness, that she have her own way with me to tempt me from mine anger, that yet she did half to like.

And in a while, I saw that she gave attention to her garments, in the way of nattiness; and afterward, she took down her hair, and made it up then very loose and pretty upon her head; so that she did be very lovely, and to tempt mine eyes that they look alway at her.

But in 1651, when the Cardinal Mazarin had been banished from France, it was resolved by Cromwell, who had recently won the battle of Worcester, to tempt the fidelity of d'Estrades, the governor of Dunkirk and a dependant on the exiled minister.

So we enter the kitchen, nothing loath, where a couple of pullets browning on the spit, kettles bubbling on the fire, and a pasty drawing from the oven, filled the air with delicious odours that nearly drove us mad for envy; and to think that these good things were to tempt the appetite of some one who never hungered, while we, famishing for want, had not even a crust to appease our cravings!

"Eh," whispers her father in my ear, "you see how luxuries do tempt the poor child, and what kind of a bed she is like to lie in if our hopes miscarry.

If I have the good fortune to kill him, I think it will tempt the president to retract his vow against venturing any more on the field of honor.

Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter sips.

He thought that such a pretty loaf might tempt even the sick.

Then I went 'round the little star of men, and warned them not to be frightened whatever happened; but to trust to the 'Defense'; and to let nothing tempt or drive them to cross the Barriers.

He knew that something was trying to tempt him alone into the darkness and that the girl had never left the boudoir.

"If I did it would be an indication?" "Granted it's your custom, what is there to tempt you to-night?" Bobby answered, half jesting: "You've not forgotten Robinson on the library sofa.

Dante is the greatest poet for intensity that ever lived; and he excites a corresponding emotion in his readerI wish I could say, always on the poet's side; but his ferocious hates and bigotries too often tempt us to hate the bigot, and always compel us to take part with the fellow-creatures whom he outrages.

And though with zealous spite we strove To blast each other's fame above, Yet here, as neither bay nor laurel Can tempt us to prolong our quarrel, I hope the hand which I extend Will meet the welcome of a friend.

nor tempt my brain With thoughts of madness brought from Hell!

The people proclaim, with one voice, that emancipation is a blessing, and that nothing would tempt than to revert to slavery.

"I would suggest," said Dunwody, "that before we tempt the gods of fortune we should first pour a libation for their favor.

Perhaps my fall has been hard enough not to tempt me to go on with my sort of luck.