Princess! they are simple, and such as beguile tentmen and tentwomen shut in by the desert, their fancies tender as children's. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
Ye fieldsmen, look sharp, lest your pains ye beguile. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
How many weary hours of pain will a nice book beguile!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
So he thought he would beguile the time by walking about. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
She must depend absolutely upon her ability to beguile him. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Thus sang the minstrel Cormack, his anguish to beguile, vol. iii. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
To beguile his time he accepted another diplomatic mission to Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
"You must not let the Captain beguile you," interposed Mrs. Carrington. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
In his eagerness to beguile us with a good story, he squanders our trust. From Wordnik.com. [Back To The Future] Reference
The Circassians also beguile the way on their journeys with riding songs. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
To beguile the long hours, she often stood in the dining-room window looking out. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
I came hither, loving you not, but hoping to beguile you into receiving me again. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
I thought shame to beguile a poor old man that way, but, sir, I could not stop it. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Like Bill Clinton, he believed, not unreasonably, that he could beguile a whole nation. From Wordnik.com. [Pumping Iron, Digging Gold, Pressing Flesh] Reference
Sir Henry Drayton had no superb suavity with which to beguile those who made complaints. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
O cursed wretch, that ever thou shouldst beguile us thus, deceive us thus, flatter us thus. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
On the contrary, we sought to beguile the time with an interchange of courtesy on both sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
He was taken away, lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision] Reference
Lovely dances beguile the weary hours for Nero, lying on his couch, a prey to love and hatred. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Ah! a thought flashed to her relief, the family watch and chain would beguile the Hebrew gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The waiting unnerves me, and I beguile the time by examining all the little details of the building. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He was ready to allow the Pompeians to beguile him from his allegiance, and at last went over to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
He replied, "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels.". From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Let no reformer beguile you into a struggle which simply aims to secure a modification of the wage system!. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
But there's no point in trying to beguile myself: as time goes on it's getting more and more difficult for me. From Wordnik.com. [quo Murphy] Reference
Very different were the methods by which the majority of his fellow-passengers endeavoured to beguile the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
With such varied discourse did Geordie beguile our homeward way, which at last brought us to his dwelling-place. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
King Arthur, for my armour and horse will beguile all knights; they will believe it is I, and will be bold to him. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
She accepted the young man's offer; but if he made it in order to beguile the tedium of his way, he was disappointed. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
A North Carolina native and devout Methodist, she was taught to defer to men, even beguile them, but rarely challenge them. From Wordnik.com. [The Steel Magnolia] Reference
Her women try to beguile their mistress's sorrow by songs, and when they see her soothed to quiet, they retire noiselessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Sadly passed the hours that succeeded their departure, and few were the occupations that could beguile the tediousness of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
It was rather dreary waiting there at the fork of the trail, and to beguile the time Tom ordered fires lighted and chocolate made. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
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