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Updated: May 9, 2025
I suppose this means that you've been making headway with your dad and want to try the effect of Billie's blandishments. Good luck! But you might have stopped long enough to tell me about it! How fine it would be if everything could be straightened out for Christmas! Do you remember the first time I kissed you it was on Christmas Eve four years ago at the Billings's dance!
And notwithstanding various blandishments on the part of Mr Mantalini, Madame Mantalini still said no, and said it too with such determined and resolute ill-temper, that Mr Mantalini was clearly taken aback.
He offered easy terms of reconciliation with the discarded monarch always reserving, however, as a matter of course, the religious question for it was as well known to the States as to Parma that there was no hope of Philip making concessions upon that important point. In Holland and Zeeland the Prince's blandishments were of no avail.
This is the reason why a poet wrote this verse to one of them: 'When present I avoid thee, but when away I find thee. "Thus we see, my son, that the blandishments of carnal love have more power over hermits and monks than over men who live in the world.
So a landlord and agent, even in 1904, still has a few of the patriarchal attributes in the eyes of the tenants. But to sift wheat from chaff is easier than to sift truth from the lying blandishments employed on such occasions.
The blandishments of the other nice people about the house were becoming to him daily less and less a substitute for that which he felt he had not much time left to enjoy; nor could he any longer bear a stranger within the gate. From her window, Gyp saw him get up and stand with his back ridged, growling at the postman, and, fearing for the man's calves, she hastened out.
We need not say that Junkie declined obedience, neither would he listen to the silvery blandishments of Gertie. "Zee chile vas born shrieking, ant he vill die shrieking," growled Scholtz, who disliked Junkie.
And I was beautiful, and I had no love, save for the king, Orcus. So the thought came to me that by my blandishments I might win power with these people, and, by power, delay, and, by delay, safety for Rome and revenge for my lord, Lucius. Therefore I journeyed to Capua. You see that I have played my part that I have won? Tomorrow I go to pay the price. What matters it? Then I can die."
Her relations, such were his waking dreams, who had despised him, would court in their turn his alliance, and all the blandishments of taste would grace the triumph of love.
Thoroughly on his guard, however, and fearful both of her hatred and her blandishments, he only made the more haste down stairs, where he found a maid, and sent her to attend to her mistress. In a minute he was mounted and trotting fast home, considerably happier than before, inasmuch as he was now almost beyond doubt convinced that Mrs Stewart was not his mother.
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