Beguiled
[bɪ'gaɪld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Beguile
Edited by Emily
Examples
- The rosy hours were thus beguiled until it was time for Bella to have Pa's escort back. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The clerks had not arrived yet, and he beguiled the time by looking out of the staircase window. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She was an angel beguiled. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Phineas seemed, on the whole, the briskest of the company, and beguiled his long drive with whistling certain very unquaker-like songs, as he went on. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The women (excepting Penelope) beguiled the time by talking of Rosanna's suicide. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Cruncher beguiled the earlier watches of the night with solitary pipes, and did not start upon his excursion until nearly one o'clock. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A dense justice in a corner is beguiled into a wink. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Emily