Verb (used with object), : to be beguiled of money. ,a multitude of attractions to beguile the tourist. ,beguiling the long afternoon with a good book. From Dictionary.com.
She was such an intriguing mixture of innocence and sensuality, guile and beguilement. From Wordnik.com. [Much Ado About Marriage] Reference
Soft and fem-inine, conniving and poisonous, at sunset she cast her nets of beguilement. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
Her enchantments to counter beguilement seemed as thin as silk veils, and about as protective. From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
Not by letting Carlotta think there was something wrong with her beguilement spells, that was sure!. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Of Deception]
Evidently beguilement was a two-way street, but Eagan preferred the solitude of his own dark alley. From Wordnik.com. [Weightlifting for Catholics] Reference
Then followed much similar feminine beguilement; the faculty for which seems to be rather increased by the Jordan bath. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
Court Exhibition, summer Blackpool and August-Bank-Holiday-Hampstead-Heath, which New York supports for its beguilement. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920] Reference
Don is especially receptive to Megan's beguilement after settling affairs at Anna's house and getting the ring from Stephanie. From Wordnik.com. [Finale Watch: Mad Men, Rubicon] Reference
In agony, he prays for death; when he learns of the decease of his wife and her beguilement by Nessus into an unintentional crime, his resentment softens. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
The most intriguing detail in the story of DE VALERA'S escape from Lincoln Gaol was the beguilement of the guards by two sweet girl-graduates from Dublin. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919] Reference
On the whole, beguilement by a teenage bad boy, however courtly his manner, doesn't lead to eternal love; nor is self-abnegation a reliable route to bliss. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight: the franchise that ate feminism] Reference
With its aroma comes beguilement of things forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchman and Other Poems] Reference
Crossjay was an agreeable beguilement to her in prospect. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
"The next question is, on whose shoulders shall the task of beguilement fall?". From Wordnik.com. [The Native Born or, the Rajah's People] Reference
Ministers in turn have defensively adopted the arts of beguilement, varied by an exercise of the police. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
An interesting couple for the beguilement of a voyage: she so beautifully moderates his irascible incisiveness!. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
The few sous spent upon such beguilement of long winter nights were most likely economized by some little deprivation. From Wordnik.com. [East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne] Reference
He made himself comfortable with morning papers and a novel -- not one of Mr. Stanhope's -- and began to seek beguilement. From Wordnik.com. [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference
Which proves how a few months 'self-beguilement by the wayside of a beaten track can become the subject of disquisitions without end. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
With the increasing cases of beguilement and identity theft cases, it is clear that people have become advanced when it comes to criminality. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Wullahy, thrice have I been saluted King; I whom fate selecteth for the shaving of Shagpat, and till now it was a beguilement, all emptiness. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference
It's all been a lie and beguilement and the time is at hand for rank and file evangelicals to part ways with those who promised all and delivered nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Blogger News Network] Reference
She had long since ceased dressing consciously for her husband, and dressing for other women was more a matter of perfect detail than attempted beguilement. From Wordnik.com. [Broken to the Plow] Reference
As on that first night when he had driven up to his father's house through the hills, Jinyo was conscious now of a sense of beguilement, almost of hypnotism. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage of Jinyo] Reference
A publisher, like another personage, has many shapes of beguilement, and it is not unlikely that this flattering deference is but another wile to entrap the unwary. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies] Reference
They were alone; the night was balmy; and there was a flood of secret joy in Doris's veins which gave her a charm, a beguilement Arthur had never seen in her before. From Wordnik.com. [A Great Success] Reference
Self-beguilement with what she had known all the time to be false had given her strength to come over half a mile that she would have been powerless to face in the lump. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
"You're back in the youth of the race -- back in the beguilement of the young world. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Road] Reference
Wall•E in its first half is a great silent film, with the occasional grunts, that focuses on a robot’s beguilement. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Review: Wall•E (3-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray)] Reference
Thomasina Twitchett, for it was she, threw him an inimical glance, rolled on her back at Alleyn’s feet and trilled beguilement. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
I shall yet find this to be but a dream of the night, or a beguilement of the day. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men] Reference
He, too, felt the beguilement of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Tiverton Tales] Reference
Never for another's dictation or beguilement. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
"beguilement.". From Wordnik.com. [A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.] Reference
A beguilement? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale] Reference
"So complete was his beguilement.". From Wordnik.com. [Enter Bridget] Reference
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