Verb (used with object) : The music wiled him from his study. From Dictionary.com.
Mr. Groom was young, and the temptress, if younger, was skilled in wiles. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Bush Maid] Reference
Is there no self-awareness on Roth's part about what a cliche of feminine 'wiles' this is?. From Wordnik.com. [the misogyny post (updated)] Reference
We do not offer men any special protections against the "wiles" of women, so why do women need such protection?. From Wordnik.com. [Becker on Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Amelia had been a bit vague about exactly what kind of wiles they would be practicing, but she had promised to remember her mother's words. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel's Lady]
And yet in this young woman was the most complete lack of any dependence upon 'wiles' that platform ever saw. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
Only 'wiles' you never descend to; 'blame' is not to be thought of; if you forbid praise, what is left to me but the rest of it? ". From Wordnik.com. [Nobody] Reference
His wiles will break and spend themselves in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
But Phœbus dreaded yet the wiles of Hermes, and said. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Of hise egen wereð ðe mist. wiles he dreccheð ðore. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts] Reference
But for him the wiles of Here boded long toil and grievous peril. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Duessa's, and wiles less skilfully prepared than those of the hoary. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
His courteous smiles are treacherous wiles, his foul designs to hide. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
But Saddam's henchmen underestimated Chalabi's wiles and staying power. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall Of Chalabi: Bush's Mr. Wrong] Reference
Now the politicos have all year to inflict their wiles on the rest of us. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Have Two Big Cheers for Modern Air Conditioning] Reference
Jessica is miles above the ordinary tricks and wiles and falsities of women. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
For all his wiles, Saddam's pride makes him easily, perhaps fatally, predictable. From Wordnik.com. [The Blunderer From Baghdad] Reference
"Social," on p. 230 of the same volume, representing a hatter's wiles and their victim. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Theoda, who loves Teut hopelessly tries all her simple wiles and allurements on him in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
But he considered it unfair to use feminine wiles to draw somebody into a religious encounter. From Wordnik.com. [Instrument] Reference
I used brute strength against Crowley, the doctor used sweet reason, and Pat her womanly wiles. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Man] Reference
"And you are a great master in the wiles of women by this time, I suppose," said Hoffland satirically. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Billiard tables and gambling halls spread their wiles, or afforded distraction for detained navigators. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
For no wiles or blandishments of mine could move them or loose their hold upon the life most dear to me. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Pedro sends his guests away, and when alone with his wife tries to win her love by his simple arts and wiles. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
Putting the claims of an unborn infant before his comfort, Persis had basely abandoned him to the wiles of Susan. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
He used his money and wiles to land a seat in the California State Senate, then moved on to the U.S. Senate in 1857. From Wordnik.com. [Political bastards, then and now] Reference
If I am not "of the world" I shall quite naturally and instinctively be able to resist "all the wiles of the devil.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Othello resisted the insidious wiles of Iago; but ignorance and inexperience yielded in the end to malignity and craft. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
The Master said, When all day long there is no talk of right, and little wiles find favour, the company is in hard case. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
With the wiles of a veteran correspondent and the street smarts of his Bronx youth, Dan competed for every single second. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Daniel Schorr] Reference
I am certain, but she has drawn him with her subtle wiles and may bind him as a slave -- bind him with her web as a spider chains a fly. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Your mother's mind, weakened by sorrow, surrendered to the insidious wiles of false teachers, and she again ignorantly wrought your ruin. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
She continued to exercise her impish arts of tantalisation and her wiles of fascination on Don Carlos during the remainder of her stay at. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
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