The little John may or may not have dreamed of being a priest; he did already dream of a greater, more enticing life beyond the barriers of use and wont.
Then was the time to turn to the back of the play-book and to study that enticing double file of names, where poetry, for the true child of Skelt, reigned happy and glorious like her Majesty the Queen.
Something happens as we desire to have it happen to ourselves; some situation, that we have long dallied with in fancy, is realised in the story with enticing and appropriate details.
He is represented deeply engaged with his studies amidst a number of massy volumes, and a huge trunk is there before him crammed with rough old fashioned large clasped tomes, quite enticing to look upon.
Hints that slaveholders would be very unsafe in Canada, should they be foolish enough to visit that country for the purpose of enticing slaves back.
Here it may be well to state that, whilst the Committee gladly received and aided all who might come or be brought to them, they never employed agents or captains to go into the South with a view of enticing or running off slaves.
But however entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?
In those taverns where prostitutes are not actually kept for the purpose of enticing customers, they are always to be found in the evenings, at the time the workmen go there to drink.
In a great number of these taverns and pot-houses of the manufacturing districts, prostitutes are kept for the express purpose of enticing the operatives to frequent them, thus rendering them doubly immoral and pernicious.
As I raked it through my fingers the sand ran in strange, enticing curves, each pouring stream finely lined, as if it was woven of curious fibres, making a wonderful design of interlacing columns.
A father had a right to his child's services, and could sue a third party for abducting, enticing away, or injuring the child, just as he could for his servants.
There are sometimes ordinances against enticing away servants bound by agreement to serve another.
That, however, which especially surprised the beautiful Norman in these revelations was the discovery that she had been quite mistaken in supposing that she was enticing a lover away from handsome Lisa.
As a matter of fact, she had simply gone through the fruit market for the purpose of enticing La Sarriette to go with her.
And when the others praised the fisherman that evening at supper for supplying their camp table, they little dreamed how near their hard-working chum had come to disaster in his efforts to land the enticing finny beauties of the river.
The daring cowboy had held out until the very last second, meaning that nothing should balk his design of enticing the enemy under their refuge, where Frank could get in his work.
Their size was marvelous, and enticing to the eye, those rocks.
He was enticing Penelope behind the barrier of his fat, oily prosperity where I could not reach her.
Eager to try my luck in that enticing pool, I leaped from the massed roots to the little beach without troubling to see what others might have come here to enjoy with me a bit of open day.
A presidential appointment, the alluring word 'consul,' a foreign residence, all sound very enticing and important to a young country man.
That makes me an enticing infant of three or four, flourishing like the green bay tree on a diet of bread and milk with an occasional soft-boiled egg.
He was cropping at a particularly enticing clump of grass when Eloise alighted.
The gradations towards vice are almost imperceptible, and an experienced seducer can strew them with such enticing and agreeable flowers, as will lead the young sinner on insensibly, even to the most profligate stages of guilt.
She laid her white hand upon his shoulder, and said in her most enticing tones: "Be the friend of Potemkin.
He drifted lightly across the pasture, alert for any adventure which the night might present, and brought up beside a rude building from which came an enticing odour.
Much to his disappointment he found the building protected against four-footed marauders and, though the same enticing odour drifted to his nostrils, he was unable to gratify his appetite.
Her lips were the same rich, moist, enticing lips he had pressed to his in those past moments of passion.
The children were with him, playing unconcernedly upon the muddy banks of the creek, with all the usual childish zest for anything so deliciously enticing and soft as liquid river mud.
She held the bowl to his lips with an enticing smile.
The woman glanced across at him open-eyed, with her enticing look.
As reasonably might you place enticing liquors before a man struggling against intemperance.
Repeating her endearing cooings, she scratched the soil, enticing to some hidden mystery.
The young lady fairly chucking herself at him in the punt he could not forbear to contrast with the enticing reserve of Mary.
The cat Mr. Marrapit had lifted from her lap sprang back to that enticing cushion.
