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- adverb So as to
lure ortempt ;enticingly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He does not look down where the earth holds out her green arms luringly, he does not look up where from the procession of clouds in the sky the fatal giddiness may drop down on his steady eye.
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It will be evident to them that the actor made love luringly and died effectively, that he was capable of lyric reading and staccato gasconade, that he had a burly humor and that touch of sentiment that trembles into tears.
The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
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She couched it in luringly affectionate tones and apologized lavishly for scratching his face when he called.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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In the breeze her heavy masses of hair stirred luringly.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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It was the call, the many-noted call, sounding more luringly and compelling than ever before.
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It was the call, the many-noted call, sounding more luringly and compelling than ever before.
Chapter 7 1903
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A day had hardly passed, after the second rejection of Mr. Canning at her door, before the thought of whistling him back again flashed luringly across Carlisle's mind.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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He knew, as he sat with clenched hands and staring eyes, that chiefly he was longing for a woman -- a woman whose eyes and lips and sunny hair haunted him after months of forgetfulness, and whose face smiled at him luringly, now, from out the leaping flashes of fire -- tempting him, calling him over a thousand miles of space.
Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police James Oliver Curwood 1903
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But again from his bed he raises his eyes and sees once more the world beyond the river, nodding luringly at him; and even there, in the midst of the new life, he falls palsy-stricken, "the paralytic of the river bank."
Life Immovable First Part Kostes Palamas 1901
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The Five howled mockery and derision, the cards danced and beckoned luringly in the mellow lamplight, the Judge pulled his coat-tail, the Major Premise tugged.
The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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