Tempted

Trouble was, I had an old black crow roosting in my brain as well, telling me such a name tempted fate to do its worst. ❋ V.C.Andrews (1985)

I would almost be tempted is not for the contempt she has shown for her readership. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If the man is sane, healthy, and merely a trouble-maker, he should be paddled until the impression left upon his memory will be sufficient to deter him when he is again tempted to take advantage of his superior strength, to injure another. ❋ Unknown (1922)

He said many thought the word tempted out of place amid so many horrors, but that it held its true position, since few things could cause such anguish to a Christian heart as even a suggestion of infidelity to its Lord. ❋ Prentiss, George L (1882)

The expression tempted me to address her, and I said I hoped she was quite well. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Every man, when tempted, is so through being drawn away of (again here, as in Jas 1: 13, the Greek for "of" expresses the actual source, rather than the agent of temptation) his own lust. ❋ Unknown (1871)

[96] The word tempted here includes, of course, all trials of soul and body, such as sorrow, pain, anguish, as well as what we commonly call temptation: but it is to this last that we will now confine ourselves. ❋ 1808-1892 (1848)

What would become of me if I should be again tempted? ❋ Unknown (1721)

I'm not even tempted, which is weird because I'm the type of person who actively goes in search of spoilers for my favorite tv shows. ❋ Stephanie (2007)

And yet, everytime I walk into Kalustyan's I'm tempted, which is why I've got four unopened bags of rice in my cabinet. ❋ Mercedes (2007)

Invitations flowed in from all the great capitals, but no terms tempted him to leave his native soil. ❋ Walter Rowlands (N/A)

Perhaps in one respect the man is more fitted to be a confessor than a woman, because he has a deeper experience of the ardour and the pleasure of temptation; and yet the deeper tenderness of the woman gives her a sympathy for the tempted, which is not even communicated by a wider experience of sin. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Nothing so much entitles a tempted person to relief from above, as a steady, composed, and unwearied looking up for it; a qualification always attended with such a peculiar greatness and firmness of mind, as the goodness of God never yet did, nor will, nor indeed can desert. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

For certain it is, that no degree of piety whatsoever could ever yet absolutely privilege the very best of men from being tempted, that is to say, either from first entering into, or for some time continuing under a temptation; as several in all ages, who have been most remarkably pious, have found and felt by sad experience. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

So what is it that drew me back in so immediately, that made me actually kind of tempted to watch it a third time directly after that second viewing? ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)