Noun : Our blandishments left him unmoved. We succumbed to the blandishments of tropical living. From Dictionary.com.
'Every little bit helps' as the blandishment has it. From Wordnik.com. [Coalition to propose automatic charity donations at cash machines] Reference
But prophesied to you oracles of delusion and blandishment. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
No one, especially a woman, has to accept a blandishment to. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT OF THE ANC NATIONAL DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE IN THE CASE OF MBULELO GONIWE] Reference
Every blandishment was used to soothe him, and it had its effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference
All the tried and true methods of threat or blandishment had no affect. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Justice] Reference
I see the mulch and fork and barrow ply the beds to cheerful blandishment. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
They will employ every blandishment and deceit imaginable to draw you outside. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Games]
But the other two were still older the blandishment of his child-like innocence. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IV] Reference
These men, who had bravely faced persecution, were at last overcome by blandishment. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
He tried every persuasion and blandishment in his power, but she still remained obstinate. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
This blandishment, however, is not the cause of the critical backlash against Remember Me. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Still Too Soon? | Obsessed With Film] Reference
It would be great deal easier to resist both bullying and blandishment with Caryo behind her. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Valor]
Not the kind of places that one typically needs to use much blandishment to cajole people to visit. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2008 » August] Reference
A Vietnam hero and national security pro, The New York Times calls him in a typical media blandishment. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: McCain-As-War-Hero Myth] Reference
A Vietnam hero and national security pro, The New York Times calls him in a typical media blandishment. '. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: McCain-As-War-Hero Myth] Reference
With Mr. D'Arcy's help he was welcomed at Harvard College with every blandishment the admissions team could muster. From Wordnik.com. [Harbinger Hall] Reference
The familiar chamber revolted him; its warring colors jarred; the nymphs of his favorite picture were devoid of blandishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Elsie and I could no longer resist the blandishment of the blue mountains ever beckoning us westward through the rocky portal of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The aristocracy which could survive such conditions had to do so by indirectness and courtier-like flattery, by blandishment and deceit. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
He spurned the blandishment of soft-shelled crabs. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
His heart was proof against every female blandishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
To any other inducement or blandishment he was adamant. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Not to be moved by blandishment or argument from this position. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 18, 1893] Reference
"So do I," said Amberley, casting about for some new blandishment. From Wordnik.com. [Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book] Reference
Mrs. Molineux was proof against this blandishment, and Bella had to go. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day] Reference
With shelter now, and with blandishment, since the winds have had their way. From Wordnik.com. [New Poems] Reference
Katherine, advancing to her guardian, with an air of blandishment and pleasantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilot] Reference
"Come near; I will not hurt you," urged Caius, helpless to do aught but offer blandishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Mermaid A Love Tale] Reference
He salutes her with soft blandishment in his voice, but to his dismay discovers that she is. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
But no perfumed blandishment of doubtful goddesses won Longfellow from his sweet and domestic Muse. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Social Essays] Reference
In a tone of blandishment he expostulated with her upon her unkind behaviour and unreasonable aversion. From Wordnik.com. [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference
It was his belief in the absolute newness of blandishment to Elfride which had constituted her primary charm. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
Kennedy is, if anything, as impervious to blandishment as a stone, as the Blarney Stone is itself, for instance. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
And the rich ruins of her handsomeness adopted new and softer lines in the overpowering sickly blandishment of a smile. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
Methought thy favours might be bought and thou to give consent To union won by gifts of gold and grace and blandishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II] Reference
But Mr Andrew, proof against blandishment no less than against suspicion, met the advance by holding his hands behind his back. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Strathearn] Reference
It was in vain she tried every artifice of female blandishment and cunning to discover what was really in the heart and mind of Bigot. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
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