Such is Camelford; such are some of the traditions which make it alluring to the pilgrim.
It was so alluring that I walked the whole way, and, upon my word, I declare you have done the neighborhood an injustice.
The fire shed a warm glow over the handsome, alluring face; he watched her with admiration.
But it was longer than he had thought, so still sat the contemplative mountaineer, so alluring were the details of the landscape.
Oh, fair and feigning prospect, what wide and alluring perspectives!
At such moments she decided God had designed her to be only a daughter, and wifehood had no alluring charms, no rosy glamour.
Joutel gives a very alluring account of the situation and structure of this village.
Elsie, less secure of manner, followed her with the pitcher of milk, while the young men bruised each other's shins beneath the table in their zealous efforts to diminish the joy each one took in the alluring presence of his cup-bearer.
It was worth years of hardship and hunger and cold to stand side by side with a woman who had not merely beauty and wealth but talent, and a mysterious quality that was more alluring than beauty or intellect.
Much could be written about this interesting group of men, and their alluring employment.
There was to him something alluring and quaint about her earnestness.
Later, as she softened and warmed and gathered grace with the years she was likely to seem more alluring and approachable to the gregarious male.
The wider became the watery expanse between him and Spain, the farther receded Isabella's memory, the less alluring and delightful grew the thought of possessing her hand.
I don't go so far as to forbid it, you understand, to those who know me, but I recognize it as being as seductive and alluring and dangerous as any delightful but deadly drug, and I usually flee from it accordingly.
The prediction was always in my mind, alluring and tantalising as a teasing girl who puts her pretty face near yours, safe that you dare not kiss it.
Unable to withstand the alluring temptations, they drank to excess without forfeiting the respect of their people.
The alluring promises of gain drew volunteers from all the neighboring country.
The room which the happy pair finally entered was indeed of a more pleasant, and alluring aspect than any Mary had yet seen.
And that profession became doublyalluring to its members, because it proffered to the priests an authority in serving the oracles which they could not obtain in the general religion of the people.
There was something alluring and suggestive in the soft, smothered radiance.
She had an expression, a light of eye and face, finely alluring beyond mere outline of feature.
The final period for the death of day and earthly glory was advancing, but Nature in her last throes displayed some of her most alluring phases.
Although this happy season meant little to me as a holiday of gift-giving and feasting, it came with auguries for success in the thing my heart most dearly desired, and compared to which earth had nothing more alluring to give.
She succeeded in alluring him to come half way to meet her in conference.
But at the same time France made a still more alluring offer, in case they would choose John Casimir, a prince in the interests of France, as their sovereign.
All along this road she planted villages, and, by the most alluring offers, induced settlers to establish themselves on all portions of the route.
But still the bait the pope presented was too alluringnot to be caught at.
Throw off your foibles and your sorrow; and call up those alluring graces of your mien which are so irresistible.
Alas, it was an alluring theme, and I talked with more ardor than discretion of its abounding delights.
The alluring visions set forth in his letter of February 2nd were as visionary as ever; and Romantzoff expressed the wish of his countrymen in his remark to Champagny: "We have come to Erfurt to set a limit to this conduct.
To this claim he had perhaps been encouraged by some alluring words of Napoleon that thenceforth the Vistula must be the boundary of their empires.
To repair this false step, Napoleon now wrote the alluring letter quoted above; and the Czar exclaimed on perusing it: "Ah, this is the language of Tilsit.
The strange appearance of the night was so alluring he felt tempted to make a wider circuit before fastening up his boat.
It has been a grim, sad adventure in which it would be hard to find one alluring feature.
Throughout the ages it has been conundrums like these that have taxed human ingenuity and made of life such an alluring adventure.
Christopher, when on a day trade was light, he stood listening to thealluring adventure of a string of black pearls.
But we are very desirous of alluring back to their country as many as possible of those we have lost, and the plan we have now proposed to your Excellency appears to be one probable means of doing it.
Won either by her superior attractions or by her alluring bribe, Paris no longer hesitated, but placed the prize in her extended palm.
At last he joined his companions, having resolved to fly from alluring Carthage; and he bid them secretly prepare their fleet for sailing.
Even Rome paid homage to its power and beauty, and Roman emperors thought it not beneath them to seek alliance with the illustrious sovereign of this alluring realm.
Possessed of striking and alluring beauty, she yet won more admirers for the beauties of her intellect, rather than for her bewitching face and stately form.
Marriage to a rich woman could alone snatch him from the social abyss, and the prospect became doubly alluring when it took the guise of Cynthia.
