Noun : Our blandishments left him unmoved. We succumbed to the blandishments of tropical living. From Dictionary.com.
He was offered many blandishments which is to say. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
One of these jokes, a customary one, was that his wife was neither pretty nor young; one of the "blandishments," I suppose, was an epigram by Sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
In this manner protected from the insinuating blandishments of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Or we will say a wife succumbs to the blandishments of another man. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
Our greatest men, likewise, are susceptible to Luna's blandishments. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
To the blandishments of pushing diplomatists or acute promoters, the. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
Triple Entente was content with blandishments alone history will show later. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
What! can Alonzo realize the delicacies, the tenderness, the blandishments of. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Kirke strives with all her arts and blandishments to enchain him, to keep him. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Rhoda refused to yield to the blandishments of the railroad magnate's daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
The German Foreign Office employed alternately threats and blandishments upon her. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
It was seen, for the most part, lavishing blandishments on a somewhat ungainly puppy. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
She will see that the blandishments, without the possessions of life, must fade and die. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
I would not be successful, for the vicar was proof against all young ladies 'blandishments!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
She was exigent, and she showed herself to the school authorities as fertile in blandishments. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
At this Ryder shed some crocodile tears; and very soon, by her blandishments, obtained forgiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
The blandishments of Florentine society might have led captive a sterner soul than that of the Senator. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
She would give David Craigie the slip, and, listening to his blandishments, cast in her lot with George. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
For no wiles or blandishments of mine could move them or loose their hold upon the life most dear to me. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Without the least proneness to blandishments, he gained and held the affection and confidence of his men. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Oh! who but the ungrateful would not love a life so filled with blandishments and crowned with blessings?. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Her tender solicitudes, her enrapturing endearments, her soul-inspiring blandishments, -- gone, gone for ever?. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Franklin, who had been exposed to its immediate blandishments, and had so many personal reasons for confidence and hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Save the gracious words and courtly blandishments which Conchillos showered upon him, nothing resulted from the interview. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Laertes before his departure for France gives his sister Ophelia some advice and warns her against the blandishments of Hamlet. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
William Kiffin, on the other hand, an influential Baptist in the city, succumbed to the threats, if not to the blandishments, of. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
What the influence and the reasonings of the minister could not effect, was very speedily brought about by the blandishments of the queen. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
But all warnings and past experience were forgotten by Odysseus when Circe commenced to exercise upon him her fascinations and blandishments. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
For some time, Mr.. LaGrange had been conscious that Mr. Whitney was one of the few whose penetration could not be blinded by her blandishments. From Wordnik.com. [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference
His conversation, composed of ludicrous fancies and blandishments, was often intermingled with sound practical advice and displays of good sense. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Thy stars shall pale, and the sun and the moon shall illumine thee no longer, for the day approacheth when thy blandishments shall fail to allure. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
On the outbreak of the war I joined the Royal Fusiliers, uninfluenced by the appeal of wall-posters or the blandishments of a recruiting sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire] Reference
"Governments will respond to American advice, threats or blandishments precisely to the extent that doing so serves their interests, and no further.". From Wordnik.com. [Dubya’s Gift] Reference
France had just lost 2-0 to Mexico and the panel had just trotted out the usual blandishments about nobody being too good to go out of the World Cup. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Gary Lineker's no-holds barred inside view of 2010? Dream on] Reference
An error of judgment, for the austere citizens of Calvin's town, setting a somewhat lofty standard among visitors, were impervious to her blandishments. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
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