beguilers

And so much the rather, because the woman deceived, was a great and cunning Mistris in beguiling others; equalling (if not excelling) any of your former beguilers.

The Decameron 2004

We do not accuse the text-books of omitting this fiasco, but we do note that theirs is the conventional adaptation here of all beguilers who are in difficulties --

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

She had been drilled from birth to the ranks of the beguilers of men, their sirens but their inferiors; and something in her, even before this year, had rebelled at that rating of herself, dimly perceiving -- as she had heard a man say once -- that marriage was better regarded as a career than as a means of livelihood.

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

The Michells were awful hard on women; called 'em vessels of wrath an 'beguilers of Adam.

The Thing from the Lake 1903

"She favors us, and she hates those others, the King's beguilers," said

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872

The beguilers were both, I do not say preachers, but they were both deceivers, and he talked so smooth to mother that he beguiled her.

Life of James Mars : a slave born and sold in Connecticut : written by himself, 1868

After studying the color of the sky, of the water, and of the foliage, and the moderated light of the afternoon, I put on a series of beguilers, all of a subdued brilliancy, in harmony with the approach of evening.

In the Wilderness Charles Dudley Warner 1864

After studying the color of the sky, of the water, and of the foliage, and the moderated light of the afternoon, I put on a series of beguilers, all of a subdued brilliancy, in harmony with the approach of evening.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The beguilers were both, I do not say, preachers, but they were both deceivers, and he talked so smooth to mother that he beguiled her; he told her if she would go to Canaan and see to his things and pack them up for him, and then if she did not want to go, she need not.

Life of James Mars, A Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Written by Himself. 1864

I-- for the sake of thy father and mother -- have thee lying I know not where, among gulls, and cutpurses, and beguilers of youth here in this city of London.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862