Inducement

Examples

• But on the other hand, as Emma wants to see her better informed, it will be an inducement to her to read more herself. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Her inducement to come to me, relying on my confidence, had been the hope that I could tell her the name and place of abode. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Another device is the separation of municipal, state and national elections: to hold them all at the same time is an inducement to prevent the voter from splitting his allegiance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• My means would suffice both to take me there, to keep me a few days, and also to bring me back if I found no inducement to stay. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The truth is, that the old lady's evidently increasing admiration was Mr. Pickwick's principal inducement for going away. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was the prospect of constant society, and good society, he added, which was my chief inducement to enter the ----shire. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Perhaps I don't regard it as such a strong inducement to go and see you. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He is, indeed; but, considering the inducement, my dear Miss Eliza, we cannot wonder at his complaisance--for who would object to such a partner? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• This was another inducement for him to side with the rich goldsmith. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Had he NOT told me as an inducement that you and your sister were to be there, I should have felt it too certain a thing, to trust myself near him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But a system of inducement which might have carried weaker country lasses along with it had merely repelled Eustacia. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Wellington was no inducement for me to prolong my stay in Paris, and as Buonaparte was now on his way from Elba, I began to prepare for my departure. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Besides the argument used by my father in favor of my going to West Point--that he thought I would go--there was another very strong inducement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This seemed to have been her principal inducement, originally, for taking up her residence there. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He acknowledged no such inducement, and his sister ought to have given him credit for better feelings than her own. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She had no inducements to go back, and had rarely gone. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Besides, there are some other inducements that excite me to this undertaking. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• At _his_ age, in _his_ place, with _his_ inducements, I would have acted differently. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am not without strong inducements to do so; the fund of knowledge you promise to communicate to me is, in addition to them, no small one. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Lawrence Selden was among those who had yielded to the proffered inducements. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• His first inducements to travel. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I have many inducements to do so. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Typed by Jerry