I have not learn'd deception, nor the art To gain with crafty wiles my purposes.
Fear warn'd me to beware lest robber's wiles Might lure me from this sanctuary, and then Betray me into bondage.
Then Beowulf spake out, on him shone the byrny, His war-net besown by the wiles of the smith: Hail to thee, Hrothgar!
Thus Demeter of the hymn, far from being identical with the Earth-goddess, must have regarded that divinity as her worst enemy, since it was to her insidious wiles that she owed the loss of her daughter.
The wiles of Statesmen without fear disclose, And be a foe to all thy country’s foes.
Thy pen shall Vice in all her wiles reveal, And trembling Graftons[53] shall its vengeance feel.
True to the notion of the order, two priests warn the neophytes against the wiles of woman.
For until now they feared my jibes and the wiles by which, or soon or late, I mated all the immortals with mortal women, making them all subject to my will.
So she (Europa) crossed the briny water from afar to Crete, beguiled by the wiles of Zeus.
And now bold Proserpine, forgetful of her mother’s jealous care and tempted by the wiles of Venus, seeks the stream-fed vale.
Prince," answered the guards, "we have too late discovered the wiles of our enemies.
At these words of the guards Misnar gave a deep sigh, and said, "Human prudence alone is far too weak to fight against the wiles of the deceitful; but Allah is more powerful than man.
Such are the wiles and deceits of men, that they are rarely to be trusted with the most advanced post; give them but footing, though that footing be innocent, and they will work night and day till their wishes are accomplished.
Here lie abash'd The great negotiators of the earth, And celebrated masters of the balance, Deep read in stratagems, and wiles of courts.
Artifice must be met by artifice; but thou art much abler to advise against the wiles of the forest, than one trained, as I have been, in the less cunning deceptions of Christian warfare.
And now, that the first assault is over, Mark, and we may hope to meet the wiles of the enemy by some prudence of our own, thou mayst go forth to thy father.
After all, he was but a man; it required the craft of a woman to defeat the wiles of such a demon as he had to deal with.
Yes; you knew that I was equal to combat thewiles of the craftiest demon that ever undertook the slandering of a fair damsel," said she.
He wanted to find a woman who was accustomed to the wiles of the devil, and he believed that he should have considerable difficulty in finding her.
Her acquaintance with wiles he knew to be large and varied, and he liked her.
He must have had so wide an experience of the craft of men and the wiles of women as caused him to live in a condition of constant suspicion of both men and women.
II) mentioned the Eucharistic rite held in commemoration of Mithra, and the indignant ascription of this by Justin Martyr to the wiles of the Devil.
But against this day he himself, Se-Osiris, had been born again, for he was that former chief magician of the Pharaoh Manakhphre come back once more to protect Egypt and Pharaoh from the wiles of the Ethiopians.
And that night he slept in the temple, and he dreamed a dream in which the god Thoth appeared to him and instructed him in divine magic that would preserve the king from the wiles of the Ethiopians.
That woman Perdita, who ensnared my friend Charles with her wiles and witcheries, is no more!
Her wilesof speech are bad, but her wiles of love are the most perilous of all.
It is difficult for a man to resist the wilesof a woman.
What thewiles were, how unscrupulously they were employed to effect any end that he had in view, Horace was now more than ever aware.
