beguilings

Through numberless beguilings I passed into the glade.

The Isle of Apple-trees 1918

Forerunner, indeed, and twice caught in a second-rate woman's net of beguilings!

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

The one thing was, that Theodore, first worried, and then alarmed at his friend's long stay, finally started in search of him, and took care that their ride down town should be in the same car, and by coaxings and beguilings, and also by force of a stronger will, enticed him home, and petted him tenderly through the fiery headache which the one glass and the tremendous excitement had induced.

Three People 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

Now, he was roiled by the enchantments of the Queen, caught in the snare of her beguilings; and he let her lead him to a seat beside her on the throne, and sat there awhile in the midst of feastings, mazed, thinking,

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

Now, he was roiled by the enchantments of the Queen, caught in the snare of her beguilings; and he let her lead him to a seat beside her on the throne, and sat there awhile in the midst of feastings, mazed, thinking,

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Now, he was roiled by the enchantments of the Queen, caught in the snare of her beguilings; and he let her lead him to a seat beside her on the throne, and sat there awhile in the midst of feastings, mazed, thinking,

The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

It is but beguilings to bring the Quest to nought; wherefore call to mind thy manhood and thy much wisdom!

The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865

That Satan's temptations are all beguilings, his arguments are all fallacies, his allurements are all cheats; when he speaks fair, believe him not.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721