It serves both as pantry and buffet, and was full of things tempting to a young palate.
They had just discovered an unusually large and tempting pin in a crack at the bottom of the gutter, when Keith heard his mother calling from the window above: "What are you doing, Keith?
Most of the water went to the stove, where operations of one kind or another were carried on from morning till night, tempting the boy with their mysteries or their promises.
The dining table, opened to its utmost length, groaned under the burden of innumerable cold dishes of tempting appearance, while from the kitchen came the odours of more substantial courses still in the making.
And the more he was thrown back on his own resources, the more tempting those games became.
But from a distance he could see that they were full of tempting things--paper and pens and pencils, red bars of sealing wax, glue-pots and rulers and glistening shears.
Ned was as good as his word, and the menu he set before the boys that night was a tempting one.
Ned found his keenest enjoyment in wandering over the country from farmhouse to farmhouse and bringing back tempting supplies.
Mrs. Zinn spread a huge table with all sorts of tempting food, and the starved boys attacked it with a vigor that made her open her eyes in amazement.
There was no slight risk that Moxley would shoot through the crevices if the moonlight afforded him a tempting chance.
Half a mile from camp the boys stopped by a deep pool that presented a very tempting aspect.
The boys drifted along leisurely, stopping now and then to explore some tempting nook.
Paradise anew Shall flourish, by no second Adam lost, No dangerous tree with deadly fruit shall grow, 445 No tempting serpent to allure the soul From native innocence.
Remember that this was the design of the devil in tempting religious people to sin, not only to destroy them, but to undo you and others by their falls.
If it was a sin by mutual consent, the party that you sinned with must by all importunity be solicited to repentance; and the sin must be confessed, and pardon craved for tempting them to sin.
It is less dangerous usually to go among Turks and heathens, (whose religion hath no tempting power to seduce men,) than among Socinians or papists, whose errors and sins are cunningly and learnedly promoted and defended.
It is an injurious insnaring the minds of others, and tempting them to erroneous opinions of us, and affections to us; which will be their sin, and may bring them into many inconveniences.
Be as little as you can in scandalous andtempting company.
Also the solicitations of seducers and of tempting people are scandalous, and tend to the ruin of souls; when people have no reason to draw a man to sin, they weary him out by tedious importunity.
Oppression further endangereth both the souls of men, and the public peace, and the safety of princes, by tempting the poor multitude into discontents, sedition, and insurrections.
Live in a constant watchful resistance of temptations yourselves, and you will have no mind to the drudgery of tempting others.
So it was not displeasing him only, but tempting him to sin, which is the scandalizing here reproved.
Its earlier and more common meaning is, 'tempting to the palate.
During several generations they maintained the dignity of their birth; and their Roman patriotism rejected the tempting offers of the Persian and Arabian powers, who recalled them to their native country.
Notwithstanding these threats, however, the fruit was too tempting to be so easily relinquished.
Stepan, however, alone partook of this tempting dish, but he merely sipped it, while our host and his wife drained the hot, oily mess as though it had been cold water.
Eagle City, although even smaller than Rampart, also boasted of a newspaper, the enterprising owner of which made me a tempting offer for the tiny silk banner which had shared our fortunes all the way from France.
On the wall was generally also a bill of fare, in faded ink, which showed how many generations of travellers must have been duped by its temptinglist of savoury dishes.
But although the offer was tempting I did not feel justified in risking the delay.
Oh, what tempting toast," she said, "and how nice that tea looks.
Ethel marched out of the room; but Nesta had no idea of putting the tempting subject out of her head.
She brought it up a few minutes later, steaming hot and tempting looking.
Enough corn should be provided to allow several ears to each member of the party, as mishaps are liable to occur, and the tempting ear of corn may be devoured by the flames, instead of the person for whom it was intended.
Soon the white cloth is laid and the tempting feast spread, when the hungry but merry maidens gather around to relish their repast in the forest, where, all about, are seen sure signs of coming winter.
The misfortunes of the first settlers, attributable in a great measure to flagrant mismanagement, deterred intending emigrants from tempting the like fate.
One bright andtempting morning the doctor and myself mounted our steeds, and leaving our affairs at the castle in the faithful charge of Meliboeus, wended our way towards the capital of the colony.
Who this race were, and whence they came, may afford a tempting theme for inquiry to the speculative antiquarian.
The treasure which the Spaniards had acquired afforded a tempting prize, and their own alarm was increased by the apprehension of losing it.
A banquet was provided, teeming with viands prepared in the style of the Peruvian cookery, and with fruits and vegetables of tempting hue and luscious to the taste, though their names and nature were unknown to the Spaniards.
These wombs are transverse, odoriferous and transparent, ever open for love and more tempting than all the flesh of women.
The teacher was tempting him to do the meanest thing in a boy's catalog of sins.
It offered a tempting course from garret to ground floor to any venturesome small boy.
The fat boy was a tempting subject for a joke, and he probably was the butt more often than anybody else.
You needn't think I don't know that you're tempting me.
Lexie dear, don't think of your old pal Maggy as a she-devil taking you up on top of a mountain andtempting you.
His soft, insinuating voice had a peculiar, tempting charm which seemed to give the objects a special value.
Too feeble to break his bonds, he would stretch his head out toward the tall, green, tempting grass, so near that he could smell, and yet so far that he could not touch it.
According to his belief, God had created woman for the sole purpose of tempting and testing man.
By Jove, how tempting they are in their light, thin dresses, which occasionally give one a glimpse of the delicate pink flesh beneath!
The four dozen golden dumplings, tempting and appetizing, arranged in two big dishes, attracted the eyes of all.
No Bovadilla seize the tempting spoil, No dark Ovando, no religious Boyle, Book II.
Several of the graduating players thought as Jenkins, and could not resist the tempting offers of large sums to join the big leagues and play ball for a living for a while.
Furthermore, he received an invitation from the Pirates to join them at the end of his course at a salary which was so tempting that right then he signed a contract to begin as soon as he graduated, or before, if he chose.
At the call of patriotism he abandoned the tempting career which lay before him and assumed the not less important but more unpleasant and arduous duties of a station which offered no distinctions.
You are tempting your father to sin--you know what he is!
He was not using it as a wooden leg now, for fear of tempting Providence; but he held it under his arm like a crutch, supporting it on the edge of the foundation wall, because it was too short.
There was a tempting development of power in the thought.
The lowing of our cow reached me as I entered the court-house square, and I hastened my gait and soon displayed before her, in her stall in the cellar, a tempting repast.
It was so tempting in its cleanliness that I consented to lie down.
And my mother, who possessed the faculty of making something good out of that which was ordinary, displayed one equally tempting to me and Telitha--milk and mush, supplemented by coffee made of parched okra seed.
Such then her melting eye; can you figure to your imagination the swel- ling ripeness of two tempting cherries?
But now that you have become a Lorillard girl, what spice is there in tempting you?
The outer door opened and Mazie Ross burst in attired as Salome and looking as wicked and tempting as if she were a bacchante straight from the Venusberg.
