Sentence examples for beguile them from inspiring English sources

So how can the most fundamental of underground acts — leaving — beguile them so?

A camel-coated interloper joins a commuters' compartment to beguile them with a series of tall stories.

Medieval monks copying out manuscripts claimed that Titivillus, their "patron demon", used to sit on their shoulders and beguile them to make mistakes.

On today's school visit he pauses on his way to the assembly hall to shake the hands of both receptionists and beguile them with a brief discourse on St Swithin.

In this book master Ovid tells of the love of women and how men may beguile them" (§ 24).

It was the prurient lure of nutmeg that beguiled them.

None of them previously had a criminal record, and all seemed to be making the transition from youth to adulthood as well as could be expected when ISIS beguiled them; they were in community college, they were looking for jobs.

Eventually she puts aside her crochet hook, recommends a home remedy for coughing to audience members, and sweetly beguiles them into the heightened world of the 100-minute play, which occurs in present-day Pittsburgh.

With the exception of Conrad, these writers turned commedic now and then, as Woolf did in "Orlando" and Kafka in "The Trial". But the commedia never beguiled them the way it did Picasso, Stravinsky and Charlie Chaplin.

I envisioned young men composing letters of love and passion to their distant sweethearts back home; or jotting down appeals of forgiveness to their parents, apologising for their indefinite absence while beguiling them with exotic tales from sea.

What beguiled them was nothing so superficial as its good looks.