All 4 Uses of
beguile
in
The Mill on the Floss
- There was no promise of happiness for her if she were beguiled into loving Stephen Guest; and this thought emboldened Philip to view his own love for her in the light of a less unequal offering.†
Chpt 6.7
- There was at least this fruit from all her years of striving after the highest and best,—that her soul though betrayed, beguiled, ensnared, could never deliberately consent to a choice of the lower.†
Chpt 6.14
- The ladies of St. Ogg's were not beguiled by any wide speculative conceptions; but they had their favorite abstraction, called Society, which served to make their consciences perfectly easy in doing what satisfied their own egoism,—thinking and speaking the worst of Maggie Tulliver, and turning their backs upon her.†
Chpt 7.4
- If Dr. Kenn should be beguiled into marrying that Miss Tulliver!†
Chpt 7.4 *
Definition:
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(beguile) to charm, enchant, or entertain someone; or to deceive -- especially through charm