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.
Ishaq: 442 "By Muhammad's order we 'beguiled' them.". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Gordon Brown has been 'beguiled' with his ambitions into making London the global centre of Islamic banking. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
His wealth, and some false tale, has beguiled her. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
"By sports like these are all their cares beguiled.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Jamie beguiled the next drift by reminiscences of Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Avoid all fancy rods, and do not be beguiled into buying them. From Wordnik.com. [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference
Its preparation has beguiled me of many a monotonous hour at sea. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Long, tedious hours are beguiled in the perusal of their contents. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
It tickled Paul's ear, and to get more of it he beguiled the boy to talk. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The ambassador to be sure was late, but Pepys beguiled the time with dinner. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
My temper grew readier to bite out at him, my amusement less easily beguiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.] Reference
The performance commenced, and lo! we found we had been beguiled into a puppet-show!. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
But Padre Ignacio, with his plausible tongue, had beguiled them ashore into his power. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Sarah Crown is beguiled by an elegant debut preoccupied with loss and the passage of time. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flesh by Adam O'Riordan] Reference
"Yes -- though goodness knows how she has beguiled any one into buying one of her daubs!". From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
The author of the "Talk" item, Francis Wheen, said Shawcross had been "beguiled" by Murdoch. From Wordnik.com. [When Harry Met Willie] Reference
Or they are beguiled into it by a desire to say something, and be pleasant and entertaining. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Percivale humility, and Merlin the power of the intellect, which is too easily beguiled by treachery. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
He robs you, and leaves you hungry, thirsty, and alone in the wilderness to which he has beguiled you. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Instead, he was grudgingly beguiled by what he found below the Mason-Dixon line, and in turn he beguiled me. From Wordnik.com. [Literature: A Voice For Dire Times] Reference
If that lady could not be beguiled into retaining her at Oakley, she must resort to a more hazardous scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
But such expectations, if any of us were beguiled into entertaining them, were destined to be rudely dissipated. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
At any rate, she came to my room one night, and there, in the way that mothers have, she beguiled my secret from me. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Gathered in their cheering circles of warmth and glow, the boys beguiled the hours preceding Taps, with jest and song. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Lazarus to my people, my friends, my children, my congregation to whom I preached, and whom I beguiled through my folly. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
With them they had brought a prisoner, whom they had first beguiled into drink, and then easily handcuffed while asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Do not be beguiled into keeping late hours, for no one can fish well next day if he has not had a sufficient amount of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference
In default of other entertainment, they beguiled the time by indulging in various practical jokes at the expense of the Boers. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
So we turned the conversation, and I beguiled him into telling me once more the history of his connection with the Epioux lakes. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
When cast into prison, she beguiled the time, and soothed the repentant anxieties of her mind, with the companionship of her needle. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
"Postponed, merely postponed," assured Hippy, and devoted himself assiduously to his dessert, refusing to be beguiled into further conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
Their king's name was Polyphemus, a huge giant who beguiled Ulysses and a portion of his crew into a cave, where he killed some of the crew and devoured them for his supper. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
Reading this adaptation in bed the other night, I felt both horrified and beguiled, just as before – and closing it, I worried, just a little, that I would not be able to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, David Zane Mairowitz and Catherine Anyango] Reference
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