Verb (used with object) : They decoyed the ducks to an area right in front of the blind. From Dictionary.com.
Concklin had decoyed them away, they coming unwillingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
Pennsylvania, was decoyed into the house of one Thompson. From Wordnik.com. [The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18] Reference
Had she been decoyed away by the evil genius of the place; was she in danger?. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
Radar can be spoofed, and even heat-seeking missiles can be decoyed by flares. From Wordnik.com. [On Yankee Station]
Next evening William called on the Heavies 'commander and decoyed him up to dine. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917] Reference
He was subsequently decoyed on board a French vessel, kidnapped and deported to Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Oroetes, who decoyed him to the mainland by an offer of treasure and then crucified him. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
The latter was decoyed out of the town by the Persian general, seized and sent prisoner to. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
They had been decoyed by the fulsome promises of their ruler into the trap which he had laid. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The criminal is made to say that a few months ago he had been decoyed and sold to foreigners. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.] Reference
These two quarrelled, and Pudsey was decoyed to London by Longchamp, and committed to the Tower. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
He himself had been adroitly decoyed out of the way to steady the railing of the rickety bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
Lona, whose own handwriting had decoyed me, had most basely betrayed me into her husband's hands?. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
In his sixteenth year he was decoyed into a ship of war at Greenock, and compelled to serve on board. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Brian, it was plain, had been decoyed by bromidic tales of cub reporters and "record-smashing beats.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
I notice that Pennant mentions that the lapwing is decoyed into nets by the twirling of looking glass. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Some geese decoyed us into an attempt to ambush them, but they kept always just out of reach of our guns. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
American vessels were subsequently decoyed into the harbour, where they fell into the hands of the conquerors. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Had she decoyed him to the rendezvous in the dark but to betray him to the bandits with whom she was in league?. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
Shin had decoyed the boy away by means of his assistant, but he was inclined to believe that such was the case. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
She hoisted English colours, and decoyed us within gun-shot, when she substituted the tri-coloured flag, and took us. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Away flew Urad like lightning from the hut, and ran till she had again reached the road from which she had been decoyed. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
But the cloth being at once flaunted near him he immediately attacks it instead and is thus decoyed to another part of the ring. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Neither of us, while love decoyed us on step by step, dreamed of the terrible necessity towards which it was hourly conducting us. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Of the prisoners of war thus long detained in durance vile nearly a thousand were decoyed into a special train the night before the. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
We have heard of laymen, too, taken to Rome by force, or decoyed thither under false pretences there to be punished by the universal. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
This castle was impregnable, but the Earl was decoyed from it, and after going again to Tynemouth, he was wounded and taken prisoner. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
But before she died she emphatically declared that Mr. Tom and his son had decoyed Roger out of the country to make away with him; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
Hood indefinitely, without much prospect of overtaking and overwhelming his army, would be for Sherman equivalent to being decoyed out of. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
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