In New York every feature of the scene was beautiful in conception, harmonious in color, graceful in action, seductive as the composer intended it to be--as alluring to the eye as the music was fascinating to the ear.
When neither the pleadings of his tribal companions nor the seductive artifices of Asa suffice to break down Manru's sense of duty to his wife and child, the catastrophe is wrought by the music of a gipsy fiddler.
I am not aware whether my infantine movements were peculiarlyseductive or not; but I have been told that I went through my gamut at a key that even overtopped the laughter around me.
We missed you sadly, Mrs. Mansergh," said he, smiling his most seductive smile.
Satan, in the form of bad writing and good pay, is not seductive to me.
This seductive statue, awakening more and more, drew a lace mantle over her shoulders and held out her little foot for a slipper which, with its jewels, would enrich a woodcutter in her native woods had he found it.
In three-quarters of an hour, Lady Dubarry came forth from his hands more seductive than Aphrodite; for she had more clothes on her, and she was quite as handsome.
With infinite cleverness and inexhaustible flow of wit, he has exposed the sophistical subtilty, the rhetorical and philosophical pretensions, the immoral and seductive effeminacy, and the excitations to undisguised sensuality of Euripides.
The seductive arts of Cleopatra are in no respect veiled over; she is an ambiguous being made up of royal pride, female vanity, luxury, inconstancy, and true attachment.
The ideal of the female character in Antigone is characterized by great austerity, and it is sufficient of itself to put an end to all the seductive representations of Grecian softness, which of late have been so universally current.
Euripides was frequently condemned even by the ancients for his seductive invitations to the enjoyment of sensual love.
By his tragical pretensions he has injured himself: his powers were inadequate to support them, and the seductive movingness at which he aimed was irreconcileable with overpowering energy.
He has also perfectly at command the seductive sophistry of the passions, which can lend a plausible appearance to everything.
The manner in which this treacherous beauty excites while she refuses, and converts the virgin modesty which she pretends, into a means of seductive allurement, is portrayed in colours extremely elegant, though certainly somewhat voluptuous.
Through intercourse with the city, the rustic becomes acquainted with the world from an entirely new and more seductive side: he is seized with new ideas: he learns of the wants of civilization, thitherto unknown to him.
In the measure that men, willingly or otherwise, renounce marriage, and seek the gratification of natural impulses through illegitimate channels, seductive allurements increase also.
Only too readily do the trustful daughters of the people, untutored in life and experience, and generally joyless and friendless, fall a prey to the seduction that approaches them in brilliant and seductive guise.
Remembering the subtle, seductive beauty of the woman, I could well imagine Miles being led, even against himself, into a marriage or anything else.
The difference between the pure, sweet, high-bred English girl and the brilliant, seductive French woman never appeared to me so great as when they were at the piano.
When his erratic fancy flashed him into seductive meshes, she pulled a string and back he came.
He had no faith in the permanent resources of the intellect for a young and seductive woman, and he understood Rachael very thoroughly.
The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, whim) is one of the seductive forms of the devil.
The silence to which the most eloquent of us must all one day lapse came upon him like the sudden seductive twilight of the Tropics, and just when he had bequeathed to us one of his finest utterances.
He had no passion for the quest for seductive forms.
But for the fraud he disdains he substitutes a flow of seductive eloquence.
They attach far more importance to bottom, speed, and sobriety than to that conventional type of beauty which is so seductive in our eyes.
Your seductive friend, Kâramanèh, is arrayed in her very becoming national costume in his honour, I presume.
We find him there the elegant voluptuary, diffusing the seductive charm of sentiment over passions and propensities at which rigid morality must frown.
Hudson had a goodly store of seductive "schnapps," and offered them some in return for their hospitality.
When Philadelphia was founded, the fame of Newark spread down there as a producer of excellent cider and seductive Jersey apple jack.
Georgette was in her usual place, and seemed to him even more seductive than ever.
She was all dressed and ready, and probably less seductive in that guise than in her jacket and short skirt; but she was still very comely, because a young and pretty woman never becomes ugly in a stylish bonnet.
Mademoiselle Georgette is very seductive in this charming neglige?
He never now will leave my side, my legs, or my presence, but I cannot but think, alas, of that seductive piece of mutton!
There is more poison in aphorisms than in painted candy; but it is of a less seductive kind.
The benefit to our place was indisputable; it constituted the most seductive charm of the scheme.
There are other forms of intemperance that are more seductivethan this one.
It was scarcely decent, and I tried to rouse myself to rage over it, but somehow the seductive Martian contentment with any fate was getting into my veins.
I have heard that a pretty and popular soubrette must have her glass of brandy between the acts, and that an actor already at the top of the ladder is succumbing to the seductive and rosy liquid.
