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Example sentences for "beguile"

Lexicographically close words:
begrudge; begrudged; begrudges; begrudging; begs; beguiled; beguilement; beguiles; beguiling; begun
  1. My mother she's a mean woman, She nursed earl's children three; I learned it from their chapelain, To beguile such sparks as ye.

  2. My mother she's a poor woman, She nursed earl's children three; And I got them from a foster sister, 215 For to beguile such sparks as thee.

  3. For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness thorow the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors.

  4. This I say lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

  5. I seated myself in the corner, and after cutting and lighting a cigar with the care that such an excellent brand deserved, I prepared to beguile my wait by reading the D.

  6. He said that an invalid sister had indulged him in this habit, and he had tried to think aloud partly to beguile her weariness.

  7. I could there find abundant opportunity for varied studies in scenery, and at the same time beguile my idle hours at the hotel with this face of marvellous capabilities and possibilities.

  8. With me, however, there is a pursuit which helps to beguile a long voyage.

  9. The Elchee asked him to beguile the weariness of our road with a tale.

  10. Many an eye gazed upon the pretty girls, whose fascinating appearance helped to beguile the time of the idle and staring multitude, now growing impatient to witness the sight for which they were assembled.

  11. The daughter of the fifer, perceiving how the prolonged absence of her father distressed him, did her best to beguile the time by amusing him with her cheerful conversation.

  12. He endeavoured to beguile time by counting the boards in the floor, and the windows of the neighbouring houses, when the clear tones of a clock reminded him of having passed a tedious half hour.

  13. And who can beguile the Eye of a louer, specially of hir, whose Paragon for good minde, wisedome and gentlenesse is not?

  14. If your sorrow be so great ouer sir Bologna, and if you feare your childbed wil be descried, why seeke you not meanes to attempt some voyage, for couering of the fact, to beguile the eyes of them whych so diligently do watch you?

  15. And the woman, full Of shame and sorrow, daring not to raise Her face with conscious blushes all suffused, Answered: The serpent did beguile me; he Persuaded me to taste the fruit forbidden.

  16. Thus Matilda, regardless of the jeers of her friends, when they proposed having the small beast into the salon to beguile the tedium of a rainy day.

  17. Somewhat as prisoners beguile their days by taming a spider, the reformed drunkard makes an interest out of abstaining from intoxicating drinks, and may live for that negation.

  18. We had many fine-weather diversions to beguile the time.

  19. Having no fellow pupil to beguile me, I was the more industrious.

  20. On such a night,'" she quotes, with a smile that might beguile a man's soul.

  21. Why, she looks as if she could beguile any one.

  22. Madame Lepelletier was very sweet, but she did not consider it wise to rouse the child's opposition, since no one else could beguile favors from her.

  23. She wished to beguile Antony as she had sought to beguile Caesar, since they were the masters of the world, and had it in their power to crush her sovereignty and reduce her realm to a mere province of the empire.

  24. Wilt thou not, ministrel, out of thy good pleasure beguile the time by story?

  25. At last the seid woman aroused herself, and turned to the girl: "Let us beguile the journey by talk, my child.

  26. The deaf gentleman and I first began to beguile our days with these fancies, and our nights in communicating them to each other.

  27. She thinks to beguile us all--to beguile thee.

  28. Greatly to Jim Douglas' relief, for there was another voice difficult to keep quiet when the cool evenings came, and all Kate's replies in Hindustani would not beguile Sonny's tongue from English.

  29. It is also a sin that puts a man upon studying and contriving to beguile and deceive his neighbor as to the bent and intent of the heart, and also as to the cause and end of actions.

  30. So to beguile her they bury the stem of a young banana-tree with her body, cutting it short and laying it between her right arm and her breast.

  31. Tell me, O friend of my soul, why do women who have been unhappily married want to see other women victimized equally, like people who have been fooled in a penny show and come out laughing to beguile the other people?

  32. Meanwhile the musicians, with the trumpeters and conch-blowers, exerted all their noisy faculties to beguile the patient heir.

  33. This flattering distinction, though it did not immediately beguile him from his moodiness, for a time diverted his dangerous fancies into channels of activity, and he found a safe expression for his annoyance in a useful restlessness.

  34. O, for a present sleight now to beguile That, and deceive you but of one good smile.

  35. Clarence intended this to convey that his eyes were at last open to her designs, and that it would be useless for her to seek to beguile him any longer.

  36. Such mind as this, lo, have some of those who are not unlearned, and have worldly wit at will, who tell great men such tales as perilously beguile them.

  37. And let not the tale of love beguile you.

  38. Horne Tooke's Diversions of Purley were written to beguile his imprisonment occasioned by a libel; and his trial resulted in making parliamentary reports legal.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beguile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amuse; appeal; attract; bamboozle; beguile; betray; bewitch; bitch; bluff; bunk; cajole; captivate; charm; cheat; circumvent; coax; conjure; convulse; cozen; dazzle; deceive; defraud; delight; delude; detract; diddle; distract; divert; dupe; enchant; enliven; enrapture; entertain; enthrall; entice; entrance; exhilarate; exploit; fascinate; finesse; flatter; fleet; foist; forestall; fracture; gull; hoax; humbug; hypnotize; infatuate; intrigue; jockey; juggle; kill; lead; lie; lure; maneuver; manipulate; mesmerize; mislead; mock; occupy; outreach; outwit; overreach; pigeon; play; presupposition; refresh; regale; relax; seduce; slay; snow; solace; spell; tickle; transport; trap; trick; vamp; while; wile; witch