beguilements

There's something wistful in Attlee's mission, a lost-boy desire to return to a darker state of grace before street-lights or wind chimes stripped away the night's beguilements, leaving us, "condemned to simmer in our own electronic bouillabaisse".

Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review 2011

"Ay me, and I will endure being simpering little Charina a bit longer, and continue casting my beguilements and love-spells on the boy."

Castle Of Deception Lackey, Mercedes 1992

For the devil always favored those he sent to do his work with charms and beguilements.

Garden of Shadows V.C. Andrews 1989

For the devil always favored those he sent to do his work with charms and beguilements.

Garden of Shadows V.C. Andrews 1989

For the devil always favored those he sent to do his work with charms and beguilements.

Garden of Shadows V.C. Andrews 1989

For the devil always favored those he sent to do his work with charms and beguilements.

Garden of Shadows V.C. Andrews 1989

I am well aware that mourning carries its own voluptuous beguilements the cocooning, the reveries, the delicious recitations of memories and guilts.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

I am well aware that mourning carries its own voluptuous beguilements the cocooning, the reveries, the delicious recitations of memories and guilts.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

Moreover, developing rationality, like developing civ - ilization, has seemed to bring burdens along with benefits; and the more advanced the development of either, the more some men, longing for an earlier, simpler, more natural state, have experienced the beguilements of the uncivilized and the irrational.

WISDOM OF THE FOOL WALTER KAISER 1968

I shall not deny but this also may befall a true believer, it being chiefly implied in Rom. vii., but yet with a wide difference from the condition of other persons, in their being under the power of the deceits and beguilements of sin; for, — 1.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966