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beguiles

vb. (en-third-person singular of: beguile)

Usage examples of "beguiles".

When dim, dark clouds enshroud our memory And pass ’tween us and heaven’s gracious smiles, ’Tis sadder far to wake to misery And feel that Pleasure now no more beguiles, That sin has left nought but the wounds of its base wiles.

An OUTSIDE INFLUENCE beguiles it into the Bessemer furnace and refines it into steel of the first quality.

He is at the bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without talents, without education, without morals, without character, without any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts.

Whereas, still according to Bruno, your male nurse takes conscientious care of his patient and sometimes cures him, his female counterpart, woman that she is, beguiles the patient, sometimes into recovery, sometimes into a death pleasantly seasoned with eroticism.

For my part you are quite free to indulge any pose of eccentricity that beguiles you--as long as you observe the amenities-- MILDRED--[Drawling.

He circles, he hides, he beguiles, he cajoles, but he never looks the larger predators in the eye as he waits for his turn at the kill.