Tempted

Examples

• Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I am going to confess to you, Fred, that I have been tempted to reverse all that by keeping silence with you just now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Well, I'm very much tempted, said St. Clare; that's just my difficulty. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But he was not, and he turned his eyes aside, that he might not be tempted to softness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Young sir, when you feel tempted to marry, think of our four sons and two daughters, and look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was no more tempted by such winning than he was by drink. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I am not tempted now, at any rate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I allude only to handsome women, who have been as much tempted as I have. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You think me unsteady: easily swayed by the whim of the moment, easily tempted, easily put aside. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Large granaries were established, and proved so successful that local capital was tempted into the project of making a tow-path canal from Lockwood Landing all the way to Milan itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Some engineers have been tempted to call him a lucky amateur, a talented artist who happened to become interested in new methods of navigation. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I would rather not be tempted. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I was sorely tempted to hint that he was now wronging her as she had wronged him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You are tempted too much--too much; but don't--go you must--but go carefully, prudently; pray God to help you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Money is a good and useful thing, Jo, and I hope my girls will never feel the need of it too bitterly, nor be tempted by too much. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Worlds could not have tempted either me, or my _femme de chambre_, to have passed another night alone in that house. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I know, one is tempted to stop with the world, just to fight it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Let us pray the Lord that we be not tempted. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Just at the time of hatching out do not be tempted to frequently open the drawer. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I suppose I was truly tempted by the mere gilding of the bait. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I feel that if I looked at him any longer, I might be tempted to say something out loud; and what would become of me then! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• My advice, said Mrs. Weston kindly and persuasively, I certainly do feel tempted to give. Jane Austen. Emma.
• These are foul, and I'll take them--if I am not first tempted to break the head of Mr Dolls with the fumigator. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The great profits of the Venetians tempted the avidity of the Portuguese. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But I will not be tempted to set myself in opposition to thee. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Only keep your cousin Edmund from me at such a time: I should not like to be tempted. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

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