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"There is a bed of rushes and weeds half a mile across, around the heron's pool, and it is now so dry just there, that it would bear the accursed foe, horses, and armour, could they be enticed to follow the path which traverses it." "Who shall entice them and prevail?" said Beorn. "Will any of our men risk their own lives and volunteer as guides to the Normans? They are seeking guides everywhere."
"I see. Then Mr. Silsbie ENTICED her away?" "Well, ma'am, it WAS allowed as she runned away. But it wasn't proved, and it generally wasn't her style." Mrs. Rightbody trifled with her next question. "She was pretty, of course?" The eyes of both men brightened. "She was THAT!" said Seventy-Four emphatically. "It would have done you good to see her!" added Seventy-Five. Mrs.
"When a man dies his shade lives and shows itself to people. In our books thousands of such cases are noted; some shades asked for food, others walked about in houses, worked in a garden, or hunted in the mountains with the shades of their dogs and cats with them. Other shades have frightened people, destroyed their property, drunk their blood, even enticed living persons to excesses.
As it slowly advanced, the beast moaned frequently, while the disgusting odour which it exhaled momentarily became stronger. It had been agreed that if the beast could be enticed out of the water, all three of the hunters should, at a given signal, discharge an arrow at its right eye, and the trio were now standing, with bows fully bent, awaiting the signal.
"It's about that girl I want to speak," she said, when she had enticed Lord Raygan into this secluded retreat. "Who, the Lady in the Moon?" He was staring at delft plates on panelled walls. "Yes. I wished for a minute she'd been the Lady in Jericho. Perhaps you noticed that I didn't seem overwhelmed with joy at sight of her?"
She knew that she did not love the man. She knew also that she loved another man. She did not even think that she should ever learn to love Adrian Urmand. She had neither ambition in the matter, nor even any feeling of prudence as regarded herself. She was enticed by no desire of position, or love of money.
"If I had my way with the lazy, good-for-nothing fellow, I'd see that he did something useful, if it was to break stone on the road. Were it my husband, instead of yours, that he enticed into his bar, depend on't he'd get himself into trouble." While this conversation was going on, a little girl, not over ten years of age, sat listening attentively.
One day he persuaded her to go with him, and see how the boat was getting on. This enticed her into some sympathy with his new pursuit. For there was the boat a skeleton it is true, and not nearly ready yet for the clothing of its planks, or its final skin of paint yet an undeniable boat to the motherly eye of hope.
And she said Penrod and Sam had enticed Roderick away from home usually he's not allowed to go outside the yard except with his tutor or a servant and had told him to say that horrible creature was his aunt " "How in the world do you suppose Sam and Penrod ever thought of such a thing as THAT!" exclaimed Mrs. Schofield.
"There is a similar legend in the Shetland Islands; but, then, it is a little horse that jumps into the sea, with the unfortunate person it has enticed to mount it," said Hardy. "There is also a similar legend in France," said the Pastor. "The horse is called 'Le Lutin. We have another legendary horse, that is said to abide in churchyards, and has three legs.
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