The devil tempted him to quench the sacred fire which the monks had in the kitchen.
Later, the pioneer was tempted to continue still further into the Golden West, always with the rainbow of promise luring him onward toward the setting sun.
They were feeling tired, and the chance for a fine camp tempted them to stop long before dark came on.
So, although Roger was greatly tempted when he discovered a trio of big elk feeding in a glade not a quarter of a mile to windward, he shut his teeth hard and told himself that on another day his chance would come.
If Jasper only discovers a big colony of beaver in a stream, I think he would be tempted to camp near by and start trapping.
This passage should be hung up in the cabinet of every cultivator of science who is ever tempted to pronounce a fact impossible because it appears to him inconceivable.
It is very important for us to observe, that these controversies have never been questions of insulated and arbitrary definitions, as men seem often tempted to imagine them to have been.
I was sorelytempted to say something of that kind to him myself, but as one grows gray one realizes that one can only speak in a spirit of love.
It was a momentary cowardice that tempted her to yield to her fatigue.
Thus we are disturbed about our lack of sensible fervor, whereas in reality we never pray so well as when we are tempted to think we are not praying at all.
God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able: but will even make with temptation an issue, that you may be able to bear it.
Why not rather accept as a penance the deprivation of that consolation we are so tempted to seek?
She said once to Aunt Hattie that she was almost tempted to write and thank him.
Her father is the most popular portrait painter in the country, I am almost tempted to say that he is the most popular man, as well.
He got as far as the corner and was tempted to turn into an alleyway and do a brief but sprightly dance on his own; but decided that he would lose no time in finding the telegraph office.
A Bishop's Writing going more by itself amongst the Clergy, and other Friends to his Side of the Question, he is tempted to misrepresent his Adversaries, knowing his prejudiced Readers will take his Report of them, and credit it.
Or did they Marvel at his Conversation with a Whore, for fear of his being temptedby her?
If I could have gotten to the certain Knowledge of the Author, I should have been tempted to have had a Bout with him; and to have expostulated with him, both with Regard to his Arguments and good Manners.
I must also sometime take into Consideration the Story of Jesus's Abode in the Wilderness, forty Days, in Company of the Devil, who tempted him.
I dare not, I say, so much as hint at one of these Absurdities, lest I should be unwarily temptedto crack a Jest on it.
For this Reason the Tryal of the Witnesses was pass'd by, or I should have been tempted to have made some Remarks on it.
And since in our days the pursuit of politics leads much more quickly to fame than that of literature, even poets were tempted to mount the political platforms.
We are at times tempted to call him "wise"; and few indeed are the critics who tempt us to apply this adjective to them.
And when he seated himself at his desk to work out his idea he was constantly tempted to throw away his pen in despair.
Tempted into Smuggling from Canada in Embargo times, and makes a Fortune, by the aid of the desperate and daring Services of Gaut Gurley.
In truth, we are temptedto pity this eunuch struggling with omnipotence.
At certain moments one is tempted to believe that, having no warning voice within, any more than the tiger, you have no more sense of responsibility.
Art thou a devil, that has tempted me to ruin, or a god, that has lifted me above the earth?
I felt my cheek burn in a manner unbecoming my years while Simon with some touch of malice repeated this; and I made a vow on the spot, which I kept until I was temptedto break it, to have no more to do with such trifles.
Whatever be his character, he is never tempted to attribute to himself a value less than his real worth.
I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love.
It is this want in our economic literature that has tempted the author to publish the present essay, although he is fully aware of its many defects.
The shopman, however honest, might be suddenly tempted by Satan, and take the next train to Liverpool.
How marvelously providential that Father Coleman should have been in the vicinity, and tempted to visit the great ruin that very night!
But the Savior, in response, only questioned Satan as to why he had suddenly become so solicitous for the salvation of the Tribes when he himself had once tempted David to number Israel and had thus brought pestilence upon them.
Such was Job, oft tempted by Satan; such was Socrates, who suffered unjust death for teaching truth.
When morning dawned on Eden, a morn of unimaginable beauty, Adam waked Eve from her restless slumbers, and heard her troubled dreams, in which she had been tempted to taste of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
His intercession was accepted, but since they had lost the two gifts of Happiness and Immortality, they must leave the garden lest they be tempted to taste next of the Tree of Life and make their woe eternal.
Industrious though he had been before, Copenhagen social lifetempted him to idleness.
The Louvre and the Luxembourg, the Théâtre Français and the Gymnase were immense treasuries that tempted me.
One was continually tempted to call out to the ladies, in Holberg's words: "Hold your peace, you good women!
Bröchner, offered instruction in the study of Philosophy to any who cared to present themselves at his house at certain hours, I had felt stronglytempted to take advantage of his offer.
Really, most of them looked so bloodless and wretched that one was tempted to think they went with the rest for the sake of the franc a day and uniform.
The Eternal will weigh your poverty against your sin; that is if you do not take the money with which bad people tempted you.
If I reveal the whole truth, they will not only punish Kamionker, but also those poor wretches he tempted with his money.
Others more light and graceful, combining some features of the antelope with those of the Tapir (Anoplotherium) ran in herds over the drier ridges, or sometimes timidly approached the treacherous clay, tempted by the saline waters.
Such a personality, we are tempted to say, is beneath our honest contempt.
All this tempted Erasmus to give him some good advice; but then, on the other hand, he reflected that good advice is seldom acceptable and generally harms the adviser.
That Erasmus had any such honest side one is tempted to doubt when one reads his defence against the charge of trifling with the truth.
After the weapon had been found, instead of throwing it aside as its finder was tempted to do, Peleg had taken it for himself.
You will not be driven, like the tempted Ithacan, to tie yourself to a mast, or to flee for safety from the enchantment of these Sirens.
I will, however, suppress the answer I was tempted to make you, because I should not think it prudent or respectful to utter before company what, I am persuaded, your good sense would permit me to say were we alone!
It never occurred to them to allude to it; and once or twice when I was tempted to mention it, my imprudence was repressed by a look of the most significant gravity from Lucilla.
I was instantly tempted to go and open my heart to him, but seeing a book in his hand, I feared to interrupt him, and was turning into another walk till I had acquired more composure.
I desire not a more explicit comment on a text which I was once almost tempted to think unjust; I mean, the greater facility of the entrance of gross and notorious offenders into heaven than of these formalists.
They were tempted to consider the Almighty as a hard master, whom however they were resolved to serve, rather than as a gracious father who was not only loving, but LOVE in the abstract.
I added that I should have been tempted to doubt his being in the favor of God, if he had totally escaped chastisement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tempted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: desirous; eager; hoping; lascivious; libidinous; lustful; needing; wanting
