Seduced

Bell told how his captain seduced two of the 11 daughters of a Liverpool doctor named McGowan and that a gang of prostitutes made the voyage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Six Nations, seduced from the English interest after the destruction of the forts at Oswego, i. ❋ Benson John Lossing (1852)

Arrived there, his numbers were increased by one hundred men of the Tobacco customs, (brought him by Señor — —, who, with a rich Spanish banker went out to meet him,) forty horsemen seduced from the escort of Codallos, and a company of watchmen! ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

I use the word seduced because molested may not be the most appropriate word for a person of 17 years of age, unless they were the victim of clergy rape. ❋ TexasFred (2010)

By such temptations, I have been sometimes seduced from the rigid duty even of a pleasing and voluntary task: but my time will now be my own; and in the use or abuse of independence, I shall no longer fear my own reproaches or those of my friends. ❋ Unknown (1206)

“Lady — —,” he began gravely (and I could not but notice that the mere title seduced him to conventional, poetic language), “moves like a lily in water; I always think of her as a lily; just as I used to think of Lily Langtry as a tulip, with a figure like a Greek vase carved in ivory. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That, I think, is needed for them (1) to better educate their own children (whom they’ve presumably raised to have at least some respect for Christian leaders), (2) to diminish the chance that their fellow parishioners will be seduced from the righteous path by this Christian leader’s cachet, and (3) to make clearer to the non-Christian world that the Christian mainstream does not endorse this interpretation of Christian scriptures. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Lady ” ”,” he began gravely (and I could not but notice that the mere title seduced him to conventional, poetic language), “moves like a lily in water; I always think of her as a lily; just as I used to think of Lily Langtry as a tulip, with a figure like a Greek vase carved in ivory. ❋ Harris, Frank (1916)

"Lady ----," he began gravely (and I could not but notice that the mere title seduced him to conventional, poetic language), "moves like a lily in water; I always think of her as a lily; just as I used to think of ❋ Frank Harris (1893)

This essay will examine how sentimentality and its valorization of virtue spread through one particular intersection of opera and literature; that is, the seduced maiden narrative is enacted in these operas, once as a comedy of sorts, once as a tragedy. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But no -- base coin seduced him, did the trick and -- here it is. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

God has of his own people with this related here; only this was to secure them from being destroyed, that from being seduced, which is equivalent. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The Republican politicians that these financial interests own -- and the corporate Democrats they have "seduced" with campaign money -- have been their willing instruments. ❋ William S. Lerach (2010)

I don't know that it requires we believe a mass audience has been "seduced" by media into a state of pathological inattention to text in order to explain why books seem less appealing to this audience. ❋ Unknown (2010)