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blandishments
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n. (plural of blandishment English)
Usage examples of "blandishments".
Although necessarily much weaned from the caresses and blandishments that had rendered his child so dear to him during the first year or two of his widowerhood, he had still a strong but somewhat latent love for her.
But because this man listens and that man scoffs, and most are enamored of the blandishments of vice rather than the wholesome severity of virtue, the people of Christ, whatever be their condition-whether they be kings, princes, judges, soldiers, or provincials, rich or poor, bond or free, male or female-are enjoined to endure this earthly republic, wicked and dissolute as it is, that so they may by this endurance win for themselves an eminent place in that most holy and august assembly of angels and republic of heaven, in which the will of God is the law.
Inexperienced and new to such blandishments, we shall be received into unwonted bliss.
She was seeking the Ramahan of the abbey who had been lost to the sauromi-cians' pernicious blandishments.
Thrusting his face into Gul Aluf's, he said, "Did you really think that anything—your sexual blandishments, your clumsy attempt at coercion—would get me to assist you in this obscenity?
But then neither was her acquiescing to his blandishments, which was motivated by her desire to infiltrate to the heart of the Sintire mission there on the northern continent.
It did not occur to him that his lordship had yielded to the blandishments of a persistent urchin.
He had allowed himself to yield to the blandishments of Felix (detestable imp!
Dolph was a child, but it might not be wise to leave him too long to the blandishments of such a creature.
She tasked all her sprightly powers and tender blandishments to win him back to happiness.
She carried with her an inward woe that mocked at all the blandishments of friendship, and "heeded not the song of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
He's resisting the Murgo blandishments, but I think he's starting to waver.
I would therefore suggest blandishments, rather than direct pursuit, next time.
No matter: Vassily, watched by an increasingly irritated Hugo, was still calling blandishments and imprecations in vain through the locked door.
But he sooned learned that such bribes and blandishments would not help his case.