"Temptress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her once more. At this moment the waiter came up. Artois paid his bill slowly and ostentatiously. As he counted out the money upon the little tray he looked up once, and saw the eyes in the long, pale face of the venerable temptress glitter while they watched. The music ceased, the crowd before the platform broke up, and began quickly to melt away. Only the woman waited, holding her little bag and her ...
— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens
... replied the wounded Norman. "Leave me and seek the Saxon witch, Ulrica, who was my temptress; let her, as well as I, taste the ...
— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten
... offers, he betook himself to his knees. Nay, truth to tell, after she had deceived us and ensnared us till we lay in her net cursing both her and ourselves, so bold and so impudent and so persistent is this temptress slut, and such fools and idiots are we, that we soon lay our eyes on her painted beauty again and our heads in her loathsome lap; our heads on that block over which the axe hangs by an angry hair. "She will talk with any man." No ...
— Bunyan Characters (Second Series) • Alexander Whyte
... here," she cried, "while they—Where are they, the traitor and his temptress? I will seek them through the house; I will tear them asunder, and confront ...
— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... life was blessed while it lasted, His name is the dearest and fairest treasure of our race, and He holds an empire such as none of the world's most favored conquerors ever won. Does not this show that the world is a lying temptress, that there is another and a better policy of life than hers, that the real sweets and prizes of this brief existence are, after all, not in her gift. Christ has overcome the world. Her prince came to Him, but found ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer |
