All 4 Uses of
allure
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He had emerged from a two years' spell of revery to find himself in the midst of a new scene, every event and figure of which affected him intimately, disheartened him or allured and, whether alluring or disheartening, filled him always with unrest and bitter thoughts.†
Chpt 2
- He had emerged from a two years' spell of revery to find himself in the midst of a new scene, every event and figure of which affected him intimately, disheartened him or allured and, whether alluring or disheartening, filled him always with unrest and bitter thoughts.†
Chpt 2
- He saw her serious alluring eyes watching him from among the audience and their image at once swept away his scruples, leaving his will compact.†
Chpt 2 *
- But what is the fury of those dumb beasts compared with the fury of execration which bursts from the parched lips and aching throats of the damned in hell when they behold in their companions in misery those who aided and abetted them in sin, those whose words sowed the first seeds of evil thinking and evil living in their minds, those whose immodest suggestions led them on to sin, those whose eyes tempted and allured them from the path of virtue.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(allure) to tempt or attract