I blessed their loquacity, which beguiled for me the weary, helpless hours.
Here reading, worsted work, and conversation beguiled the time until dinner was announced.
One night they longer stayed the tale to hear, And Ruth that night "beguiled him of a tear, 490 Whene'er he told of the distressful stroke Which his youth suffered.
Then came another song, like lullabies Of ocean, mingled with the airs of night: Whilst a mother's only child 430 Rests in short and sweet repose, All her troubles are beguiled When its placid eyelids close!
A little child, By me beguiled But yesterday From busy play, This morning hurried from these eyes-- He could not look where courage dies!
Your words are wild And far from holy faith; Your reason is of one beguiled By some infernal wraith-- "Do you not know the written Word Tells of our father's fall?
It is not permissible for any but the very young and innocent to be so easily beguiledas you and Van Dyke have been.
To-day there is not a person in your community who could be beguiled to touch a penny not his own--see to it that you abide in this grace.
The god-like form he wore Beguiled him to believe none like to him, And he alone desirable, and things Unlovely, to be slighted.
But the watchful Venus perceived the peril of her Lusians, and calling her nymphs together, beguiled the storm gods until the storm ceased.
But if she had never so many friends, she might have been beguiled by him.
The Serpent said one thing and meant another, when he beguiled Eve; and so did Mr. Badman when he beguiled his Creditors.
If thou shalt live to marry, take heed of being served as I was; that is, of being beguiled with fair words, and the flatteries of a lying tongue.
The Serpent beguiled Eve with lying promises of gain; and so did Mr. Badman beguile his Creditors.
Marry, she says that the very same man that beguiled Master Slender of his chain cozened him of it.
Marry she ses the very same man that Beguiled maister {S}lender of his chaine, Cousoned him of it.
Put at ease by the commissary's conduct toward her, Janice entered eagerly into the gaiety with which the army beguiled the tedium of winter quarters.
While all was doing, they beguiled the time with conversation.
The Dragon which kept the golden apples was the serpent that beguiled Eve.
Our progress was necessarily slow, and beguiled by Scott's telling many stories and amusing anecdotes, as was his custom.
The bookseller refused to be beguiled from his just cause of complaint into the flowery meads of literary reminiscences and speculations.
I give you honor, Tula,--I give you honor for the thought; but forgive me if I think you beguiled by your love.
With such loving converse, the brother and sister beguiled the homeward way.
They were rather the chief's sycophants and handy men, who mended muskets, and beguiled his leisure by telling stories of far-off lands.
The women are beguiled to the trysting-place, and yield rather from feebleness of will than from appetite for vice.
Some time afterwards, a child with whose companionship Winckelmann had beguiled his delay, knocked at the door, and receiving no answer, gave the alarm.
She had ever been healthy-minded as a child; even the pure imaginings of love had not beguiled her.
He had put it there so that his father might bebeguiled into resting after work.
Jeff was roaming on, beguiled by his new thoughts and the sound of his own voice.
Somebody had broken in (an incredible happening here) and was beguiled by loneliness and silence into an absurd security.
It showed how she had unconsciously beguiled him, how she had impressed him with her curious implication of belonging to things afar from this world of homespun usages.
And indeed Grinnell had much ado to defend himself against the sneers and rebukes with which the party beguiled the way through the wintry woods.
Even the head of a horse could be seen thrust in at the window, while the brute, hitched outside, beguiled the dreary waiting by watching with a luminous, intelligent eye the gossips within, as if he understood the drawling colloquy.
They again listened breathlessly, wondering whether their own hopes had beguiled them.
They knew that one of the Thorntons could not be won by money, but they were rather surprised to find out that he could not be beguiled by other inducements.
A few little happeningsbeguiled the period of waiting.
