Henceforth she resolved her life should be free and chainless as the winds. Never more should needle and thread tempt her to a womanish inactivity. As Hercules, whose counterpart she was, changed his club for the distaff of Omphale, so would she put off the wimple and bodice of her sex for jerkin and galligaskins. If she could not allure manhood, then would she brave it. And though she might not cross swords with her country's foes, at least she might levy tribute upon the unjustly rich, and confront an enemy wherever there was a full pocket.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
You will be at their house this even- ing; promise me to observe everything. I know you are experienced in these matters, you know women better than I. Women! Women! Who can understand them? Their smiles contra- dict their glances, their words promise and allure, but the tone of their voice repels. At one time they grasp and divine in a moment our most secret thoughts, at another they cannot under- stand the clearest hints. Take Princess Mary, now: yesterday her eyes, as they rested upon me, were blazing with passion; to-day they are dull and cold" .英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
*He has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow-citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture & confiscation of our property.*英文原著 · 《AUTOBIOGRAPHY》
There is a home on the shore of the Alpine sea, that upswelling High up the mountain-sides spreads in the hollow between; Wilderness, mountain, and snow from the land of the olive conceal it; Under Pilatus's hill low by the river it lies; Italy, utter the word, and the olive and vine will allure not,-- Wilderness, forest, and snow will not the passage impede; Italy, unto thy cities receding, the clue to recover, Hither, recovered the clue, shall not the traveller haste?英文原著 · 《Amours de Voyage》
They were still talking of the dinner and the allurements of city life when Mrs. Pontellier herself slipped around the corner of the house. The two youngsters stayed dumb with amazement before what they considered to be an apparition. But it was really she in flesh and blood, looking tired and a little travel-stained.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
Said the king, "I do well to punish you, ye clever misleaders of the folk, because ye deceive all men, counselling them to abstain from the enjoyments of life; and because, instead of the sweets of life and the allures of appetite and pleasure, ye constrain them to choose the rough, filthy and squalid way, and preach that they should render to Jesus the honour due unto the gods. Accordingly, in order that the people may not follow your deceits and leave the land desolate, and, forsaking the gods of their fathers, serve another, I think it just to subject you to punishment and death."英文原著 · 《Barlaam and Ioasaph》