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  • It shines out alluringly.†   (source)
  • Its allure.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the world you came from looks huge and menacing, quivering like a vast pile of jelly, at other times it is miniaturized and alluring, a-spin and shining in its orbit.†   (source)
  • I tried to make my smile alluring, wondering if I was laying it on too thick.†   (source)
  • I guess there's something very alluring about that to some kids.†   (source)
  • Add Chicago and the great fair, and the combination became too alluring to turn down, no matter what Anna suspected about his and Minnie's relationship.†   (source)
  • Always, he's alluring, dangerous, mysterious, and he tends to focus on beautiful, unmarried (which in the social vision of nineteenth-century England meant virginal) women.†   (source)
  • I didn't have to be Nemesis to understand the allure of revenge.†   (source)
  • She acted coy, diffident, but alluring.†   (source)
  • Nila pushed against every single notion I had ever had of how a woman was to behave, a trait that I knew met with the stout disapproval of people like Zahid—and surely Saboor too, and every man in my village, and all the women—but to me it only added to her already enormous allure and mystery.†   (source)
  • So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring, instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons' volume, I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region.†   (source)
  • The penetrating and alluring aroma of coffee drew his eye to the steaming cup waiting for him on the end table by the door.†   (source)
  • Such feminine allure in that girl-child's voice, Jessica thought.†   (source)
  • It may seem alluring.†   (source)
  • Once, in a magazine interview, he said that Hatsumomo was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen, and that on the stage he often imitated her gestures to make himself seem more alluring.†   (source)
  • As he eased back, he danced his fingers over the alluring line of her collarbone.†   (source)
  • A young man was staring down at me, his face alluring in the same animal way as his feet.†   (source)
  • But the idea of being a member of an oppressed minority was very alluring.†   (source)
  • With the added allure of her trust fund—her family, old tobacco money, was still one of the wealthiest in the state—to many people, she was the sorority.†   (source)
  • Vee was right—something about him was incredibly alluring.†   (source)
  • What Roran had done on her behalf elevated her far above ordinary women; it made her an object of mystery, fascination, and allure to the warriors.†   (source)
  • In Willie-Jay his vanity had found support, his sensibility shelter, and the four-month exile from this high-carat appreciation had made it more alluring than any dream of buried gold.†   (source)
  • For me, his powerful presence embodied all that was alluring in Christianity.†   (source)
  • Instead, when he'd met my gaze for a jolting moment, I'd seen life bursting through, chaotic and alluring beneath the shadow of the mask.†   (source)
  • A future in Jordan felt limited, lacking suspense, whereas the United States seemed alluringly full of both uncertainty and possibility.†   (source)
  • It was a bleak November, the weather damp and gray and edging to snow, and she liked looking at that bright, alluring sea, the edge of warm sand.†   (source)
  • Clove and bay, but there was something at the end of it; something that made the scent finish tangy and bitter …. dark and mystic and alluring in its …. naughtiness.†   (source)
  • The tournament had lost its allure.†   (source)
  • Approximately a third of the population wore makeup almost every day—out of habit, as an effort to feel normal, or to be more alluring either to a staffer or another inmate.†   (source)
  • She tried to recover from her fright and to look alluring, but the attempt was so pathetic that it saddened Augustus.†   (source)
  • But for all its miseries, there was an unmistakable allure to thejockey's craft, one that both found irresistible.†   (source)
  • But Russia had always had a certain allure ever since I'd watched so many brilliant Russian dancers in those videos back at the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • "I'm not letting you pull another Camp Haven on me," I said, adding what I hoped to be an alluring purr to the timbre.†   (source)
  • But I found her more alluring than any woman I'd known in mortal life.†   (source)
  • Her allure stemmed from her accessibility; like Mt. Everest, she was there, and the men climbed on top of her each time they felt the urge.†   (source)
  • I had always loved that sound, so high, so alluring.†   (source)
  • Strangely, powerfully alluring.†   (source)
  • The visage is both alluring and unnerving, but he indulges it, thinking of what Gilliam might be looking like these days (back at Lorton after a good long drink of freedom) and how difficult it will be to find solid work when he gets out, whenever that will be.†   (source)
  • But …. there wasMeredith …. and he couldn't deny that the allure of presents was pretty enticing.†   (source)
  • Her voice was sweet with allurement.†   (source)
  • Heidi Enqvist was gorgeous, but alas not in her own eyes, and so she lacked the mystery and allure of Rita Vartanian, who despite her overbite and prominent nose managed to make Heidi envious.†   (source)
  • Marsha's alluring eyes and shiny auburn hair almost made me faint.†   (source)
  • Death was alluring, seductive, and Celia longed to die in the thrill of it over and over again.†   (source)
  • Bobby Kennedy is aware of his cultural influence; he well understands the Camelot allure.†   (source)
  • For another, I think he is allured here by a mastering desire, stronger than his caution.†   (source)
  • The city turns inward upon itself, faces away from visitors, alluringly contained in its own mystery.†   (source)
  • I know I'm not beautiful in the way that Pippa is, and I don't have Felicity's allure.†   (source)
  • Drinking was never very alluring to me, but that night I had decided to take a few glasses of rice spirits with dinner.†   (source)
  • The Irishwoman, whose name was Janet McCafrey, did not answer Alessandro directly, but her savage, red, tight, and beautifully crooked face composed itself into an alluring and patient smile.†   (source)
  • It waited until the alluring orb came full in the sky, then it took up the ancient howling cry of its breed.†   (source)
  • Her tenacity fascinated him, and yes, allured him.†   (source)
  • The sky looked painted in oils today, and the trees seemed to fill every spare inch with alluring green.†   (source)
  • The legendary Bourne had turned; life in the nether world had become too much for him and the temptation to come in from the cold with over five million dollars had been too alluring to resist.†   (source)
  • The idea seemed at once exasperating and alluring, knowing there was absolutely nothing he could do the rest of the day.†   (source)
  • Her eyes, she had decided, were her most alluring asset, wide, dark, intelligent, beguiling, with a trace of treachery and perhaps some hidden reservoir of pain.†   (source)
  • Randy watched her diminish, all allure, all bravado falling away, leaving her smaller and like a child.†   (source)
  • At the time I was not so much politically innocent as a political neuter, a castrato, and I read the Post not for its liberal editorials or for Max Lerner's columns—all of which bored me—but for its breezy big-city journalistic style and its alluring reports on the haut monde, notably those of Leonard Lyons.†   (source)
  • There was no compassion in what this woman was doing, he knew that-there was only a frightening thing, a stern allurement.†   (source)
  • Well, do change it, allure me with something else, give me another ideal.   (source)
  • There was nothing to allure her now; duty would be easy, and all the old calm purposes would reign peacefully once more.   (source)
  • But the salivation notion is too alluring, and now there's an excursion into the mouth.†   (source)
  • A violent sound, but soothing; alluring, almost.†   (source)
  • His voice was alluring, whether he was aiming for that or not.†   (source)
  • But otherwise I'm sure I looked rather alluring.†   (source)
  • It's a private tour," Alice said, flashing an alluring smile.†   (source)
  • He found the smile a pleasant and very alluring surprise.†   (source)
  • Them and hippopotamuses are not alluring to me.†   (source)
  • In the same powerful, alluring voice she used during rituals, Neferet spoke.†   (source)
  • You wear silk and a very alluring scent but manage to maintain that aura of untouchability.†   (source)
  • The scent of blood washed over me, seductive, alluring, and horrible.†   (source)
  • He was alluring, up ahead-the perfect being to catch up with.†   (source)
  • The shared color, or more accurately the shared absence of color, produced an especially alluring range of effects as the sun traveled the sky.†   (source)
  • As he did, an alluring whiff of Sophie's perfume filled his nostrils, and he realized how close they were.†   (source)
  • While Anna's face was still one of the most alluring on screen, audiences who for years had imagined her speaking in dulcet tones were not prepared to hear her husky tenor.†   (source)
  • Sadly pretentious, with a provincial idea of the alluring in their wistfully upholstered furnishings.†   (source)
  • So alluring is his penchant for violence that the imitation Faulknerian story willhave a rape, three cases of incest, a stabbing, two shootings, and a suicide by drowning, all in two thousand words.†   (source)
  • The prospect of murky engravings of the beauty spots of Europe, their borders decorated with paper fern fronds, is not usually alluring to him, but at the moment it beckons like an escape.†   (source)
  • You could become bigger and more powerful, or more alluring and mysterious, just by putting on exotic clothes.†   (source)
  • Candidates would need a degree of stenographic and typewriting skill, but what he most looked for and was so very adept at sensing was that alluring amalgam of isolation, weakness, and need.†   (source)
  • Much about Winifred that I'd once found mysterious and alluring I now found obvious, merely because I knew too much.†   (source)
  • For Zoey Alluring Priestess.†   (source)
  • She missed the walks on the beach, and I could always lift her spirit when I found one of those small, alluring shells impressed in the sands, still glistening from the withdrawn tide.†   (source)
  • He so thrilled us with tales of the mines that he almost persuaded me that to be a miner was more alluring than to be a monarch.†   (source)
  • She laughs, girlish and preposterously alluring, drawing the attention of other students: Leander, who jerks his gaze away and rubs his crooked nose guiltily when I catch him looking, Faris, who grins and mutters something to an appraising Dex.†   (source)
  • Never before had he felt such strength in the metal; it tested him to the limits of his own resilience, and he felt a shiver as alluring as the thrill of battle when he had at last proven himself the stronger: "Bruenor will be pleased."†   (source)
  • But she was looking into his eyes row, and her pain bathed her in a beauteous light, a light which made her irresistibly alluring.†   (source)
  • Natalie scrutinized her face one last time in the mirror, as if committing her own features to memory—the nose she detested, the mouth she thought too large for her face, the dark alluring eyes.†   (source)
  • Her voice sounded alluring and sexy.†   (source)
  • (r)h, I remember perfectly what mortal vision was, the dimness of it, and how the vampire's beauty burned through that veil, so powerfully alluring, so utterly deceiving!†   (source)
  • The first section of country he crossed was the kind of steep, treed hillside that one sees from trains, and that, despite its proximity to a railway track, is wild and alluring.†   (source)
  • Her ordered, disciplined mind swam first with confusion, then with sensation after alluring sensation.†   (source)
  • Her body was one long, alluring line.†   (source)
  • They tolerated the baptism and modest garments imposed on there by the French Catholic laws; but in the evenings, they made their cheap fabrics into alluring costumes, made jewelry of animal bones and bits of discarded metal which they polished to look like gold; and the slave cabins of Pointe du Lac were a foreign country, an African coast after dark, in which not even the coldest overseer would want to wander.†   (source)
  • It's the overwhelming combination of all that I've seen, felt, and cannot explain, that has stayed with me and refused to depart, that drives me again and again to a faith of which I am not sure, that is alluring because it will not stoop to be defined by so inadequate a creature as man.†   (source)
  • If he were not picking the pocket of a dead man in an alley, he was at the greatest gambling tables in the richest salons of the city, using his vampire keenness to suck gold and dollars and deeds of property from young planters' sons who found him deceptive in his friendship and alluring in his charm.†   (source)
  • He is exercising that talent which has made him an alluring lecturer and a public speaker of vibrant flair.†   (source)
  • All nearness and darkness affected it, even clouds going by, but for Jenny that left it no tree ever gave such allurement of fragrance anywhere.†   (source)
  • The huge fellow let himself down the steep rocks and with hands and knees peered into the caves, like a dentist into alluring mouths.†   (source)
  • Though she had bullied and repulsed them earlier, they began to speculate in another kind of allurement: was there danger that Easter, turned in on herself, might call out to them after all, from the other, worse, side of it?†   (source)
  • Danger has always held a certain allure.†   (source)
  • Yet there's an enticement in this thing, it carries with itthe childish allure of dressing up.†   (source)
  • He smiled back, though, looking allured.†   (source)
  • The young man in the picture exuded virile allure.†   (source)
  • Even now there was an eerie, surreal allure about her.†   (source)
  • He nibbled lightly at her breast, listening to and allured by her unsteady breaths.†   (source)
  • What was the secret of his allure?†   (source)
  • Within a few days Sherpa runners began to arrive on a regular basis with packages for Pittman, shipped to Base Camp via DHL Worldwide Express; they included the latest issues of Vogue, Vanity Fair, People, Allure.†   (source)
  • This practice added a mysterious allure to their work and also protected them from persecution should their writings or artwork be deemed counterestablishment.†   (source)
  • She's actually smiling, coquettishly even; there's a hint of her former small-screen mannequin's allure, flickering over her face like momentary static.†   (source)
  • So he hasn't yet lost his allure.†   (source)
  • But knowing myself, and I do, if I keep coming in here for breakfast, I'll eventually succumb to the allure of the pancake.†   (source)
  • He went back to Internet porn, found it had lost its bloom: it was repetitive, mechanical, devoid of its earlier allure.†   (source)
  • But why would he be stupid enough to give up his grey rainy-day allure — the crepuscular essence, the foggy aureole, that had attracted them to him in the first place?†   (source)
  • "There's certainly some allure to the idea of a fresh start; but how could I relinquish my memories of home, of my sister, of my school years."†   (source)
  • Maybe it takes a kid from a mining town in Nottinghamshire, which Lawrence was, to recognize the allure of the sunny south.†   (source)
  • All the driver education and solid parental advice in the world can't overcome the allure of that kind of power, and sadly, in too many cases those young drivers shared the fate of Icarus.†   (source)
  • It has an allure, a scent almost.†   (source)
  • Even room 244, a rather depressing little spot overlooking the alley behind the hotel, had its allure: for from there, if one leaned far enough out of the window, one could watch the fruit sellers gather at the kitchen door and catch the occasional apple tossed from below.†   (source)
  • For Liberian parents in America, the prevalence of gangs in Clarkston—and their potential allure to young Liberian men—created a bitter paradox.†   (source)
  • I can well believe that Boromir, the proud and fearless, often rash, ever anxious for the victory of Minas Tirith (and his own glory therein), might desire such a thing and be allured by it.†   (source)
  • But that fright was equal part allure.†   (source)
  • But the memory of this magical evening will linger, and even someone as famous as Greta Garbo is not immune to Camelot's allure: "It was a most unusual evening that I spent with you in the White House," she writes in her thank-you note to Jackie Kennedy.†   (source)
  • For a moment I was transfixed by the strangeness of it all, the sheer exposed figure of the girl and then the four others who stood covering themselves with their hands, their half-real, half-phantom nearness, which I thought must be like the allure of pornography for Corporal Endo.†   (source)
  • She led me up the stairs and I followed her, memorizing the lines of her body, the allure of roundness and the surprise of fullness and ripeness and youth.†   (source)
  • I remark upon all this only to give an idea of Jack's exceptional allure as a person, and to explain why I jumped at his invitation at the cost of neglecting my obligations in regard to Nathan and Sophie.†   (source)
  • The singing, thundering, magical words made her seem doubly dangerous, doubly alluring.†   (source)
  • And a way of swaying your hips, that's an allurement to any man under ninety?†   (source)
  • Enchanted birds sang allurement from the trees.†   (source)
  • Or are the charms of wedlock with old Frank Kennedy more alluring than illicit relations with me?†   (source)
  • She moved leisurely with a luxurious sensual swing of the body: her smile was tender and full of vague allurement, her voice gentle, her sudden laughter, bubbling out of midnight secrecy, rich and full.†   (source)
  • He seemed to breathe again the warm stuffy odor of the basement kitchen, an odor compounded of bugs and dirty clothes and villainous cheap scent, but nevertheless alluring, because no woman of the Party ever used scent, or could be imagined as doing so.†   (source)
  • Lodging in the same house with her, he had noticed too, how orderly she was, up before breakfast and off to paint, he believed, alone: poor, presumably, and without the complexion or the allurement of Miss Doyle certainly, but with a good sense which made her in his eyes superior to that young lady.†   (source)
  • They are soundless apparitions that speak to me, with looks and gestures silently, without any word—and it is the alarm of their silence that forces me to lay hold of my sleeve and my rifle lest I should abandon myself to the liberation and allurement in which my body would dilate and gently pass away into the still forces that lie behind these things.†   (source)
  • How alluring, how dazzling it is!†   (source)
  • I realized that I was now left to myself and to the theater, and I went with curiosity from door to door and read on each its alluring invitation.†   (source)
  • When I rose once more to the surface of the unending stream of allurement and vice and entanglement, I was calm and silent.†   (source)
  • The young vigor of her body answered my movements as no one else's had done that night, yielding to them with an inward tenderness and compelling them to new contacts by the play of her allurements.†   (source)
  • And it astonished me to find how rich my life—the seemingly so poor and loveless life of the Steppenwolf—had been in the opportunities and allurements of love.†   (source)
  • Although I saw no other way out, although nausea, agony and despair threatened to engulf me; although life had no allurement and nothing to give me either of joy or hope, I shuddered all the same with an unspeakable horror of a gaping wound in a condemned man's flesh.†   (source)
  • And everywhere on all the countless doors were the alluring inscriptions: MUTABOR TRANSFORMATION INTO ANY ANIMAL OR PLANT YOU PLEASE KAMASUTRAM INSTRUCTION IN THE INDIAN ARTS OF LOVE COURSE FOR BEGINNERS; FORTY-TWO DIFFERENT METHODS AND PRACTICES DELIGHTFUL SUICIDE YOU LAUGH YOURSELF TO BITS DO YOU WANT TO BE ALL SPIRIT?†   (source)
  • How alluring the world outside the cage appeared to Lily, as she heard its door clang on her!†   (source)
  • It was the sweet allurement of the mimosa tree in full bloom that finally overcame my fears.†   (source)
  • The Step-Daughter [disdainful, alluring, treacherous, full of impudence].†   (source)
  • It was a magnificent outline, incredible, alluring, unfathomable in its nameless certainty.†   (source)
  • This was Paul's fairy tale, and it had for him all the allurement of a secret love.†   (source)
  • If she were to influence him it must be wholly through womanly allurement.†   (source)
  • He, too, was beautiful and alluring to her.†   (source)
  • Not evil, but goodness more often allures the feeling mind unused to reason.†   (source)
  • It was wonderful now: white, yet glowing, with the red lips parted, and dark eyes alluring.†   (source)
  • Any hour he might be expected to arrive and corroborate Blicky's alluring tale.†   (source)
  • To attach himself to a good family and obtain a dowry was an alluring prospect.†   (source)
  • And still, at wide intervals in the silvery night, the lonely, alluring jet would be seen.†   (source)
  • What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.†   (source)
  • That's very alluring to start with, for a man of no consequence and a beggar.†   (source)
  • Will you leave him to the allurements of the world and the devil?†   (source)
  • Not in the wildest days of his boyish visions could he have seen the alluring shape of such an extraordinary success!†   (source)
  • She spoke it earnestly, eloquently, and for once she had no sly little intonation or pert allurement, such as was her wont to use on this infatuated young man.†   (source)
  • It had opened wide to him, bright with its face of danger, beautiful with its painted windows, inscrutable with its alluring call.†   (source)
  • A dainty, self-conscious swaying of the hips by a woman was to him as alluring as the glint of red wine to a toper.†   (source)
  • Beside her was another girl whom Clyde did not fancy nearly so much, and yet who, after her fashion, was as smart as Sondra and perhaps as alluring to some.†   (source)
  • But I am bound to state that now that I know that you are Mr. Worthing's ward, I cannot help expressing a wish you were—well, just a little older than you seem to be—and not quite so very alluring in appearance.†   (source)
  • The pursuit was a dream—a glittering allurement; the possession incited a lust for more, and that was madness.†   (source)
  • He learned that some of the boys she went with in Baltimore were "terrible speeds" and came to dances in states of artificial stimulation; most of them were twenty or so, and drove alluring red Stutzes.†   (source)
  • Still, though it thrilled her to see she made him love her more as the days passed, she could not blind herself to the truth that no softness or allurement of hers changed this strange restraint in him.†   (source)
  • She was outrageously painted and ogled the students impudently with large black eyes; her smiles were grossly alluring.†   (source)
  • She was magnificently a specimen of the illiterate divorcee of forty made up to look thirty, clever, and alluring.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • There was surely a saloon on the corner—perhaps on all four corners, and some in the middle of the block as well; and each one stretched out a hand to him each one had a personality of its own, allurements unlike any other.†   (source)
  • Babbitt had uneasily felt that to many men she might be alluring; now he admitted that to himself she was overwhelmingly alluring.†   (source)
  • …background, like the panels which a Bengal fire or some electric sign will illuminate and dissect from the front of a building the other parts of which remain plunged in darkness: broad enough at its base, the little parlour, the dining-room, the alluring shadows of the path along which would come M. Swann, the unconscious author of my sufferings, the hall through which I would journey to the first step of that staircase, so hard to climb, which constituted, all by itself, the tapering…†   (source)
  • They were still talking of the dinner and the allurements of city life when Mrs. Pontellier herself slipped around the corner of the house.†   (source)
  • The temptations to enter political life were so alluring that I came very near yielding to them at one time, but I was kept from doing so by the feeling that I would be helping in a more substantial way by assisting in the laying of the foundation of the race through a generous education of the hand, head, and heart.†   (source)
  • An alluring hypothesis.†   (source)
  • Even the delights of dancing paled before the alluring opportunities for tete-a-tetes that invited the soul to loaf in the long library before the baronial fireplace, or in the drawing-room with its deep comfy armchairs, its shaded lamps just made for a sly whisper of pretty nothings all a deux; or even in the billiard room where one could take a cue and show a prowess at still another game than that sponsored by Cupid and Terpsichore.†   (source)
  • So that at twenty-eight she scarcely thought at all of her wonderful influence for good in the little community where her father had left her practically its beneficent landlord, but cared most for the dream and the assurance and the allurement of her beauty.†   (source)
  • Yale had a romance and glamour from the tales of Minneapolis, and St. Regis' men who had been "tapped for Skull and Bones," but Princeton drew him most, with its atmosphere of bright colors and its alluring reputation as the pleasantest country club in America.†   (source)
  • Here and there on the corners were stands, with whole flower gardens blooming under glass cases, against the sides of which the snowflakes stuck and melted; violets, roses, carnations, lilies of the valley--somehow vastly more lovely and alluring that they blossomed thus unnaturally in the snow.†   (source)
  • They were dark gateways of the desert open only to him, and he entered to chase the alluring stars deep into the purple distance.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The logs had burned out to a great heap of opal and gold and red coals, in the heart of which quivered a glow alluring to the spirit of dreams.†   (source)
  • The question rang out in the indescribably alluring voice of Radames, a tenor at once both sweet and heroic, horrified and ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Co-ordinate geometry and the melancholy hexameters of Corneille and Racine held forth small allurements, and even psychology, which he had eagerly awaited, proved to be a dull subject full of muscular reactions and biological phrases rather than the study of personality and influence.†   (source)
  • The thought was insidiously alluring.†   (source)
  • "But you care for me a little, then, don't you?" he half-demanded, half-pleaded, his eyes lit with that alluring light which so fascinated her.†   (source)
  • So she did not inquire of herself why Helen's coquetry and Dorothy's languishing allurement annoyed her, or why Edith's eloquent smile and words had pleased her.†   (source)
  • She gave him credit for having the usual allurements of men—people to talk to, places to stop, friends to consult with.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was because his experience of life elsewhere was so full of Sabbath-school picnics, petty economies, wholesome advice as to how to succeed in life, and the inescapable odors of cooking, that he found this existence so alluring, these smartly clad men and women so attractive, that he was so moved by these starry apple orchards that bloomed perennially under the limelight.†   (source)
  • Which he did—just so that he and "Clavdia" could meet head-on, which was something quite different, more dangerous and more intensely alluring than when she walked before or behind him.†   (source)
  • Yet once at the Cranstons', and despite the keen allurement of Sondra, he could not keep his mind off Roberta's state, which rose before him as a specter.†   (source)
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