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  • [FN#467] i.e. Crown of the Kings of amorous Blandishment.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Burden rests upon the former, Nature has given all the little Arts of Soothing and Blandishment to the Female, that she may chear and animate her Companion in a constant and assiduous Application to the making a Provision for his Family, and the educating of their common Children.

    Spectator, July 27, 1711 1711

  • Nature has given all the little Arts of Soothing and Blandishment to the

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • Benediction - noun - a blessing Biased - adj. - prejudiced Bilk - verb - to cheat or avoid paying, defraud Blandishment - noun - flattery, coaxing.

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