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Definition of Blandishments
1. blandishment [n] - See also: blandishment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blandishments
Literary usage of Blandishments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1885)
"... against all blandishments, all intrigues, all temptations, and all open attacks.
She sets at defiance all 'military,' all 'yeomanry cavalry' They may as ..."
2. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the
brave live on. DR. G. SEWELL: The Suicide. Oh that this too, too solid flesh ..."
3. Historical memoirs of my own time by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1904)
"From this Resolution, expressed in laconic, but energetic terms, neither menaces,
blandishments, nor expostulations, could induce him to recede: ..."
4. Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)
"And though the good Laird was the least susceptible of mortals, he would often
find these innocent blandishments a somewhat trying ordeal! ..."
5. The History of Rome by Livy (1835)
"... on his first arrival in Alexandria, by those blandishments which were afterwards
no less .triumphant over Antony.* The ministers of the young monarch, ..."
6. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... against all blandishments, all intrigues, all temptations, and all open attacks.
She sets at defiance all ' military,' all 'yeomanry cavalry? ..."
7. Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1885)
"... against all blandishments, all intrigues, all temptations, and all open attacks.
She sets at defiance all 'military,' all 'yeomanry cavalry' They may as ..."
8. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the
brave live on. DR. G. SEWELL: The Suicide. Oh that this too, too solid flesh ..."
9. Historical memoirs of my own time by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1904)
"From this Resolution, expressed in laconic, but energetic terms, neither menaces,
blandishments, nor expostulations, could induce him to recede: ..."
10. Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)
"And though the good Laird was the least susceptible of mortals, he would often
find these innocent blandishments a somewhat trying ordeal! ..."
11. The History of Rome by Livy (1835)
"... on his first arrival in Alexandria, by those blandishments which were afterwards
no less .triumphant over Antony.* The ministers of the young monarch, ..."
12. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... against all blandishments, all intrigues, all temptations, and all open attacks.
She sets at defiance all ' military,' all 'yeomanry cavalry? ..."
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