At the same time the most unconscious temptress might be the means of breaking up homes and misleading workmen, and thus become invested with all the wild legends told of the illusory phenomena of nature in popular mythology.
Yet he knew that he had left her behind him in Edinburgh, the siren temptress of Earl Douglas, the woman who had led his master into the power of the enemy, she for whose sake he had refused the certainty of freedom and life.
He was ready to kill the temptress as he would a beautiful viper.
Woman was the arch temptress who by the natural forces of sex attraction, reinforced by her evil charms and incantations, made it so difficult to attain the celibate ideal.
The asceticism of the church made it shameful to yield to her allurements, and as a result woman came to be feared and loathed as the arch-temptress who would destroy man's attempt to conform to celibate ideals.
And parting, spread The silken hair about her little face, And kissed the temptress through the green-leaved space.
The swift shrill voice of her temptress still went on in her ear.
Joseph's temptress did not tempt even the prurient taste which gave us the Parisian operatic versions of the stories of Phryne, Thais, and Messalina.
An Old Hebrew warns against the temptress and Samson agonizingly invokes a veil over the beauty that has enchained him.
Now Assad rises superior to his grosser nature and drives the temptress away, thus performing the saving act demanded by Solomon.
The temptress was too near, the heav'n too far; I can but weep because he sits and ties Garlands of fire-flowers for her loosened hair, And in its silken shadow veils his eyes And buries his fond face.
She went to rest content; but he was none the less ill at ease, disturbed, offended, and violently offended, at the presence of his temptress under the roof of Hohenszalras.
The remembrance of that night of base temptation left a sense of uneasiness and of insecurity upon Sabran, but the influence his temptress had possessed with him was of that kind which fades instantly in absence.
He cries out with the anguish of the very wound itself, and bids the temptress begone.
The relation of Kundry and Parsifal as temptress and tempted was one which had long dwelt in Wagner's mind.
Maddened by the distance which his temptress kept, also goaded to it by the sorry state of his empire, Maximilian thought only of abdication.
Yet the temptress now found herself the harder to master.
