Temptations

Examples

• Human nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Jo, dear, we all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• All the discretion, all the experience, which had availed me with other women, and secured me against other temptations, failed me with her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• That is merely one of the temptations of theory. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Don't think too well of me, either, this is not one of my temptations. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I suppose each mode of life produces its own trials and its own temptations. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He is her lover, whoever he is; but she may need help and womanly counsel;--there may be difficulties or temptations which I don't know. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• When thus prostrate, temptations besieged her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The comparative innocence of the other European powers is to be ascribed largely to their lesser temptations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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