The tempter was very near.

" Bubble regarded the tempter with scornful amazement.

Put this tempter out of the way, and it will mean Ham's safety.

Well, I was tempted to lie, and say it was not our cousin; for Andrew was nothing akin to us; but I resisted the tempter, and said I could say nothing, but that I was heartily sorry,'and

In an evil hour he lost his head and listened to the voice of the tempter, and having succeeded in getting himself put in charge of the stronghold of the Hudson, he secretly negotiated with Clinton for its surrender.

The Bulgarians, intoxicated by their victories over the Turks and seduced by the promptings of the Austrian tempter, turned a deaf ear to the arguments of their Serbian allies, and insisted upon their pound of flesh.

Dead for love; and how passionately Albine and Serge loved each other, in the great garden their tempter, in the bosom of Nature their accomplice!

The words of the tempter are in his earmadness and hatred are in his heart.

Then came the tempter; in the strength of the spirit of the baptism, he resisted the temptation, and was victorious over all its forms.

[ILLUSTRATION: The Tempter and the Tempted Mephistopheles Butler.

"'And when in its prison,' he continued, leaning forward eagerly, 'didst thou face a tempter who offered thee deliverance at a dreadful price?'

For a time the Tempter left her, but returned ere long, and creeping into her heart sung to her beautiful songs of the future which might be were Hester's baby a lady.

Book v. GILES FLETCHER, in Christ's Victory, pt. ii. makes the Tempter seem to be "a good old hermit or palmer, travelling to see some saint, and telling his beads!!" LODGE, in The True Tragedies of Marius and Sylla (1594), mentions "the razor of Palermo" and "St. Paul's steeple," and introduces Frenchmen who "for forty crowns" undertake to poison the Roman consul.

In the Tempter's subtle snare, The chains of an evil habit He bowed himself to bear.

It is worthy of remark, that many painters, the greatest of them (Raphael) at their head, have represented the tempter of Eden as a beautiful woman, whose body terminates in a serpent.

" Robert's confidence in this tempter's work of his was well founded, but a little premature.

In April and May of the following year, 1337, he granted to Robert of Artois, his tempter for three years past, court favors which proved his resolution to have been already taken.

EPHRAIM THE TEMPTER.

"Back from me, tempter!" cried he, proudly.

You give it to me?" "I give it to you, and with it a curse on the tempter of my honor!"

He thought on the years that were passed, on their last interview, when every word had graven itself upon his heart, on the devotedness of his orphan sister, the misery he had once occasioned; he thought on these things, and stood firm,the tempter fled.

There are many to say she loved, and believed, in the fond trust of devotion, all that the tempter said.

Are you, according to the promise of the serpent-tempter, 'gods, knowing good from evil?' of such clear omniscience, that you can hurl an unprepared soul before the tribunal of its Maker, in the full assurance that you have rightly loosed the silver cord which he had measured, have justly broken the golden bowl which he had fashioned!

The chimneys are twisted in the most approved style of the Dutch Brabant, and, although wanting the stork's nests on their summits, it seems as if there might be that woman's tempter, comfort, around the hearths beneath.

he half fled from the tempter; but Monckton followed him up and laid his hand upon his shoulder.