One of the greatest of sex allurements would be lost and the extreme importance of clothes would disappear at once if the two sexes were to dress alike; such identity of dress has, however, never come about among any people.
Thus, and thus only, shall man overcome the allurements of these lower endowments and receive the rewards of "him that overcometh.
She put him to the test; she measured his worth by his power of recognition, his power of discrimination between her mother's instinctive allurements and her own high demand.
She had none of the winningallurements of the siren; Mary had realized that and was now realizing that genuine interest, even if reticent, may be the most fragrant of compliments.
Now, when reason does not yield to the allurementsof external sense, all is well; but when it permits itself to waver and consent, the fall has taken place.
So, then, we are to understand by "evil days" the allurements that lead us away from God's Word and his will.
With the same firmness that he resisted the allurementsof love, he sustained the hardships of war.
The allurements of plenty engaged them to seek a permanent establishment on the frontiers of the empire.
Certain men are almost invincible against the onslaughts of the many base allurements which wreak such misery on all sides of us.
And yet what an ingenious device was that of the ancient, who, knowing the powerful allurements of Hope, put on the front of the magic shield "Be bold!
In this state he gave them two Odalisques[120] of surpassing beauty, but all whose blandishments and allurements proved ineffectual, for the two holy men came forth from the ordeal as pure as the diamond of Bejapore.
There are divine music, divine beauty, divine objects of gratification in Svarga Loka -- allurements enough for a man of desire.
If the Karma Kanda holds out the allurements of Svarga life, it lays down rules and restrictions at the same time, that regulate life and beget temperance and moderation.
All great sinners find their excuse in the fatal allurementsof passions.
The regulation of the mere domestic police of a State appears to me to hold out slenderallurements to ambition.
The allurements of pleasure were powerful over the enthusiastic and impassioned temperament of Henry; it was love that most frequently prevailed over the claims of duty.
She sailed up the Cydnus in a gorgeous bark, with a fantastic and brilliant equipage, and brought all her allurements to bear on the heart of the voluptuous Roman.
Most of the young men and women who are lost in our cities are ruined because of their inability to say "No" to the thousand allurements and temptations which appeal to their weak passions.
The favor of his prince, the caresses of faction, and the allurements of popularity, seduced him into enterprises which exceeded his capacity.
But Charles, notwithstanding all allurements of pleasure, or interest, or safety, had the generosity to protect his injured consort.
These labours, of which the simple enumeration of his books gives us an inkling, even the most fertile mind could have performed only by utilising every moment of his time and by renouncing all the allurements to distraction and repose.
Thus it was that he gained so uncanny an influence over the hearts of his Germans, that, by caressing and flattering and using the allurements of the Divine Word, he could make them believe whatever he pleased.
Everything facilitated the allurements and the commerce of crime.
Prisoners are safe amidst scenes which present no allurementsadapted to their former habits: the pickpocket is perfectly trusty as a shepherd; the housebreaker makes a confidential dairy-man.
The poor should know how to resist seduction, and the rich the allurements of avarice.
These convictions, however, were weakened and at times entirely overcome by the overpowering allurements of a life wherein glory was offered at the price of honor, and power was purchased in the surrender of moral restraints.
His mother dying during his infancy, he became the protege of an abbe who had abandoned the duties of his sacred calling for the allurements of the world.
With the aid of the Countess Ida von Hahn-Hahn he founded refuges for their kind, and looking then toward those others to whom the allurements of the world had proved too fascinating, he established a House of the Good Shepherd.
The great business man is fortified by experience against forms of treachery and he is, therefore, not so susceptible to the allurements of any "promotion," be it mining or otherwise.
There are not the allurements for getting rich quickly in coal mining that are so beguiling to the class of investors generally approached by the promoters of mines(?
Somehow, there weaves throughout the history of mining a sort of magnetism rendering us unduly susceptible to the allurements which are presented with every mining proposition.
A thousand years, as Castilio conceives, "will scarce serve to reckon up those allurements and guiles, that men and women use to deceive one another with.
The allurements of emendation are scarcely resistible.
He avoided all kinds of dissipation, and up to the age of thirty-five years had resisted the numerous allurements of this voluptuous city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "allurements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
