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Usage examples of temptation.

Take away the opportunity of the individual to accumulate wealth for himself, and you remove the temptation for fraud, theft and numerous other crimes, for there is then no incentive left for them.

Shifting her weight to the balls of her feet and resisting the temptation to crack her knuckles, she waited for Barth to handle the situation.

I was so hungry and thirsty that, towards noon, I nearly succumbed very suddenly to the temptation offered by the bason of congealed porage and the jug of cloudy water.

If a person is weak-minded and susceptible to temptation, to theft, for instance, no doubt a familiar acquaintance of a similar character might hypnotize that person and cause him to commit the crime to which his moral nature is by no means averse.

Lo Manto always felt it was best to resist the temptation, that to stray too close, even to such an alluring flame, would only lead to a bad burn.

I was obliged to tell this lie to avoid the temptation of marrying her, and to prevent Armelline thinking that I was courting her with that intention.

Yes, and I was even mean enough to wish that I had broken my word to Panda and gone off with John Dunn when he invited me, although now I thank goodness that I did not yield to that temptation and thereby sacrifice my self-respect.

But behold, I had not been long a partaker at that ordinance, but such fierce and sad temptations did attend me at all times therein, both to blaspheme the ordinance, and to wish some deadly thing to those that then did eat thereof: that lest I should at any time be guilty of consenting to these wicked and fearful thoughts, I was forced to bend myself all the while, to pray to God to keep me from such blasphemies: and also to cry to God to bless the bread and cup to them, as it went from mouth to mouth.

But wealth and lassitude have their temptations as well as penury and toil.

The wild temptation to sell her Plummer birthright for a kiss assailed her.

He was like a man gloating secretly over a jewel that he knew everybody was trying to steal and he even stared at Prew calculatingly suspiciously, as if he had learned the hard way that even friendship was suspect before so great a temptation.

So as he and Waco rode along, Longarm was just as glad to see the Flint Hills offered few temptations to anything but cows, although back in the Shining Times of the Kansa he suspected the pronghorn and other browsers had kept down the encroaching brush a bit better.

However, when the sorrow of his life reassailed him, and the thoughts and recollections of Angele brought the ache into his heart, and the tears to his eyes, the temptation to return to the garden invariably gripped him close.

The worthy lady, of course, could not resist the temptation of informing Mr Sheepshanks of what her bankers had said about the investment he had so earnestly urged upon her, and the vicar seemed greatly surprised.

Then she went into her usual speechifying on the dangers of her son, Jeremiah falling into the temptation of sin and its equal danger of the hell fires of the god of the nether world, the Moloch.