There's something wistful in Attlee's mission, a lost-boy desire to return to a darker state of grace before street-lights or wind chimes stripped away the night's beguilements, leaving us, "condemned to simmer in our own electronic bouillabaisse". ❋ Unknown (2011)
"Ay me, and I will endure being simpering little Charina a bit longer, and continue casting my beguilements and love-spells on the boy." ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1992)
For the devil always favored those he sent to do his work with charms and beguilements. ❋ V.C. Andrews (1989)
I am well aware that mourning carries its own voluptuous beguilements the cocooning, the reveries, the delicious recitations of memories and guilts. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)
Moreover, developing rationality, like developing civ - ilization, has seemed to bring burdens along with benefits; and the more advanced the development of either, the more some men, longing for an earlier, simpler, more natural state, have experienced the beguilements of the uncivilized and the irrational. ❋ WALTER KAISER (1968)
I shall not deny but this also may befall a true believer, it being chiefly implied in Rom. vii., but yet with a wide difference from the condition of other persons, in their being under the power of the deceits and beguilements of sin; for, — 1. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
And the first fine careless rapture of the Tracts for the Times, their aspiration that the Church of England could be protected against all its encircling enemies: Romish beguilements, Low Church aridity, Broad Church liberalism (i.e. impiety). ❋ Ricks, Christopher (1964)
His neatly-clad form and constant eye-glass were in great request at all tea-parties and carpet dances that took place in the social circle to which he belonged; but, beyond such slight beguilements of "life's dull weary round," his existence was uneventful. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Lawrence family tree -- Eulalie was fully blown, and quite alive to the beguilements of dress and the desirability of beaux. ❋ Various (N/A)
Very clearly, as in ali temptations, the devil's beguilements are an inextricable tangle of truth and falsehood. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)
We have merely the final chapters of what would seem to have been the first half, or perhaps the first third, of the complete narrative; so that this manuscript account of Melusina's beguilements breaks off, fantastically, at a period by many years anterior to a date which those better known versions of Jean d'Arras and Thuring von Ringoltingen select as the only appropriate starting-point. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
So Alianora goes out of the story, to bring long years of misery and ruining wars upon the English, and to Dom Manuel no more beguilements. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
And I obediently would watch her wriggling beguilements, and the man's smirking idiocy, with bewilderment. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
If, as a German thinker says, every woman is a courtezan or a mother, it is obvious that the artists and thinkers who refuse alike the beguilements of the one and the ironic tenderness of the other, are not people to be "loved." ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
It was a violently rainy day -- an early March day, to be exact -- the sort that refused to be softened even by the beguilements of California. ❋ Charles Caldwell Dobie (1912)
"My grace is sufficient for thee"; sufficient amid the beguilements and fascinations of the serpents; sufficient amid the plausible refinements of the angel of light; sufficient amid the apparently destructive forces of the lion of violence and persecution. ❋ 1817-1893 (1910)
