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.

Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

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.

Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

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.

Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

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.

Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

I would almost be tempted is not for the contempt she has shown for her readership.

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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.

Prison Progress 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.

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882

The expression tempted me to address her, and I said I hoped she was quite well.

A Traveller in Little Things 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.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 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.

Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848