time-beguiling love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making the time pass quickly.

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Examples

  • It is not for me to rub the gilt off the innocent inventions of the emotional Arab, but merely to relate one of his time-beguiling tales, and one which, probably, is of clean-cut truth.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • It is not for me to rub the gilt off the innocent inventions of the emotional Arab, but merely to relate one of his time-beguiling tales, and one which, probably, is of clean-cut truth.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • If time-beguiling pleasure but advance Her lustful trump, and blow her bold alarms,

    Emblems, divine and moral 1812

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