One day the devil came to tempt this old man, but, as soon as he heard him, he opened his sack and said: "Artchila murtchila!
He tells her then how that a merchant had come to tempt him; how he had made a bet, and that he had come back with her gold chain, and then, having got into a passion, he had thrown her into the sea in a chest.
But, if we no more tempt you, We will tempt some one else; And we will even take down To hell some soul.
Yet not for this, if wise, will we decry The spots and struggles of the timid Dawn; Lest so we tempt the approaching Noon to scorn The mists and painted vapours of our Morn.
How by the desultory breeze caressed, Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover, It pours such sweet upbraiding, as must needs Tempt to repeat the wrong!
To mix with Kings in the low lust of sway, Yell in the hunt, and share the murderous prey; To insult the shrine of Liberty with spoils From freemen torn; totempt and to betray?
Nothing is more evident to us than that men tempt and corrupt one another.
The dungeoned prisoner in Bungay Castle cries, "Were I at liberty to speak I could a tale unfold would tempt you to curse the world and even detest those claims which bind man to man.
They appear as the visible embodiment of Macbeth's thoughts, and by their mysterious suggestive utterances tempt him to put his unlawful dreams into action.
And Peter said to her: Why is it that ye agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?
But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said: Why tempt ye me, hypocrites!
Now therefore why do ye tempt God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them: Why temptye me?
Defraud not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and come again together, that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.
Nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents.
Jesus said to him: Again it is written, Thou shalt not temptthe Lord thy God.
Nay, temptme not, Arab, again to stay; Since I crave neither Echo nor Fun to-day.
The good old Code, like Argus, had a hundred watchful eyes, And each old English peasant had his good old English spies, To tempt his starving discontent with good old English lies, Then call the British yeomanry to stop his peevish cries.
Maurice was as pale as she, long before she had finished; the crisis had come, and he must either lose her or tempt his fate.
He would have told her that he loved her, but that he loved honor more; that he would neither sin himself nor suffer her to tempt him from his sense of right.
We can readily understand that such small results did not tempt the East India Company to continue their efforts in these latitudes.
His sole cause of complaint was the repeated endeavour of the Portuguese to tempt his sailors to desert.
Gold and silver to tempt cupidity were not to be found, and the stern, though not inhospitable character of the Northern tribes was very different from the imbecile effeminacy of the Southern races.
If I deny them I am not to be believed, and the denial would only bring down upon my head additional insult; then why tempt so hard a fate?
We can even tempt ourselves, as well as be tempted by another.
How long will Christians tempt the Lord in seeking signs, and will not rest upon his only word and promises?
Laying hold on God himself makes a man’s duties acceptable, because he speaks and asks; believing that he shall receive, he trusteth God and doth not tempt him.
Nay, many of us are ready to tempt temptations, to provoke the devil to temptations; we cast ourselves open to temptations.
But there are also, very special reasons why the three great constituents of religion should, each in its own way, tend continually to tempt the soul to retain only it, and hence to an impoverishing simplification.
And to refuse to exercise oneself in goodness, and to insist upon simply awaiting what God might send, would be simply to tempt God.
Take example from that impertinent devil, that got leave to tempt Job; he persecuted him, beggared him, covered him all over with scabs and ulcers.
Really you tempt me to fancy you already regret your rash proceeding!
He knew too well how easily he could persuade himself: words from without might tempt him and quite extinguish the spark of honourable feeling that tortured him, and that he clung to in desperate self-vindication.
Astonishment never shook the foundations, nor did envy of greater heightstempt him to relinquish the security of his stronghold, for he saw none.
No, I'll not wander with the bee, So tempt me not, variety.
The pangs of hunger, however, might tempt many to leave the security of their hiding-places, and Monckton determined to gather in as many more as possible.
But, finding none which they deemed suitable, they decided to tempt fortune at Poutrincourt's domain of Port Royal.
Who can tell whether danger will allow us to tempt and tease her with impunity.
If life could tempt me, now, to return to my former vigour and strength, it need only hold up to my dying eyes the picture of your unselfish heroism.
Even Conrad the Corsair, whose type is sketched from a ferocious race, and who is placed in circumstances that tempt to inhumanity,--Conrad is yet far removed from cruelty.
How many young men, in a similar case, would not without a scruple have thought that he had only to cull this flower which seemed voluntarily to tempt him?
Would make that breast with indignation burn, And all the glittering snares to tempt thee spurn.
Lilies have no sin Leading them astray, No false heart within That would them bewray, Nought to tempt them in An evil way; And if canker come and blight, Nought will ever put them right.
But Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?
Oh, why did the foul fiend send her here to tempt me to the damnation of this deed?
Look here, Toby, you don't really mean to say that if you had those silly old wings along with you, anything'd ever tempt you to take such chances as to jump off that high place?
And if the food for any reason did not tempt them, or if it egregiously failed to coincide with their aspirations, they considered themselves aggrieved.
Gold and jewels would probably not tempt a Sophia of these days to read Experience of Life; but to Sophia Baines the bland story had the piquancy of the disapproved.
You need not doubt that God's will looks so much better to us than our own, that nothing would tempt us to decide our child's future.
I hope it will make you laugh--a lady told me she never confessed her sins aloud (in prayer) lest Satan should find out her weak points and tempt her more effectually!
I do not mean that I really love anybody better than I do Him, but that human friendships tempt me.
