How To Use Blandish In A Sentence
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He was offered many blandishments which is to say:
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The connection must surely at least be that the effect of those blandishments was in fact to cause Mr Sage to decide to perjure himself in the cause.
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That distortion makes us susceptible to the blandishments of our current leaders.
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Specious little witch! she called me: your best manner, so full of art and design, had never been seen through, if you, with your blandishing ways, have not been put out of sight, and reduced to positive declarations! —
Clarissa Harlowe
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One of these jokes, a customary one, was that his wife was neither pretty nor young; one of the "blandishments," I suppose, was an epigram by Sir
The Age of the Reformation
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Those locks which stung like scorpions along her cheeks were bent, and her neck was bowed in blandishment, and her hips quivered as she went.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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What a whopper, though she smiled anyway over the blandishment.
Johanna Lindsey
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A few courageous legislators have withstood the health industry's blandishments and taken at least baby steps to modify the law.
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Suppose we ask Martha Higham if the Earl has 'blandished' her.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete
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It shouted its absurd blandishments in thick capitals half an inch high.
RESCUING ROSE
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These made nascent officers less susceptible to blandishments from civilian projects.
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Our credulity is solicited, blandished, directed to the region of possible and desirable things.
Bottoms Up
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How sensible she had been to resist his blandishments.
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Forget the smooth, caramelized blandishments of cognac.
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After spending the last few years trying to understand the pull of the material world, I am far more sympathetic to its blandishments and far more forgiving of its excesses.
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America is a country that is high on fantasy -- that's why our political discussions denigrate so rapidly into accusations and one-word blandishments ... because it's convenient.
Mike Ragogna: From D.C.'s Kennedy Center to East Of Angel Town: Conversations with Branford Marsalis and Peter Cincotti
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Reuters Education may wean away youth like Kasab from terror: Clinton Phuket: The confession of lone surviving 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab shows that he was "a young man without much purpose in life", US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, pitching for good education and jobs to wean away the youth from "blandishment" of terrorist groups.
India News Digest: Air India May Get Phased Equity Infusion
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The godlike Xenocrates showed this by the firmness of his reason, who was declared by the famous hetaera Phryne to be a statue and not a man, when all her blandishments could not shake his resolve, as Valerius Maximus relates at length.
The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
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Yet such is the prevailing paranoia that the publishing house was legitimately concerned that suddenly the little sisters of St. Francis of Assisi would metamorphose into a gaggle of money-hungry, lawyer-blandishing harpies.
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So although I am not much in the habit of packing up my troubles in my old kit bag and handing it to other people, I instantly got busy blandishing my favorite retreat organizers, Kerry Eielson and John Fanning of La Muse in Labastide Esparbaïrenque, in the remote Montagne Noir of southwestern France.
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It appalled him to see these phenomena and sickened him that he himself was prone to their blandishments.
SACRAMENT
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She charmed the visitor with the arsenal of her blandishments.
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But this remedy fails to confront the reality of a male youth culture nearly immune to all the blandishments of established society.
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Few present-day Green Party leaders seem willing to urge the Greens to forego the blandishments of a presidential campaign.
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For the moment he has been resisting the president's blandishments and coaxing on the war policy.
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But this remedy fails to confront the reality of a male youth culture nearly immune to all the blandishments of established society.
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Arguably none exist this year, at least as regards large states; the possibility that Virginia, which like Texas and a few others still has greater-than-average sense of itself as a state, might be subject to such blandishments is undoubtedly why Tim Kaine’s name gets mooted about.
Discourse.net: Veepstakes: I'll Guess Sebelius
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No wonder the free education generations have proven so susceptible to the party's blandishments.
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The contestant's ingratiating blandishments are not a hit with everyone.
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The playbill of a theatre, a cinema's neon blandishment, an alleyway somewhere.
THE LAST RAVEN
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This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys.
The Odyssey
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As it was, it occurred to him for perhaps a few seconds, until the biscuit took hold, and his taste-buds succumbed to its blandishments.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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They are thriving, sleeping and dreaming in that inner mammalian world, while their carrier lies by my side, when she's not blandishing me for food scraps.
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At the time of the deal, Japan was impoverished, flattened by the war, and Americans harbored a lot of Cold War fears that the Japanese could be susceptible to Communist blandishments.
The Good Fight
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Their own futures depend on sticking scrupulously to what the evidence will bear, whatever the political blandishments from above.
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He had simply fallen to the blandishments of others to procure a drug they were asking for.
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He mistrusted ravishment by charm, spiritual appeal, force, wit or other blandishments.
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The playbill of a theatre, a cinema's neon blandishment, an alleyway somewhere.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of
Ulysses
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And perhaps - when we notice we're being blandished - we are.
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
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But blandish rice and undressed iceberg salad don't do much to help out.
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But resisting his blandishments, the German foreign minister began to fulminate for the cameras.
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Yet such is the prevailing level of concern that the publishing house was legitimately concerned that suddenly the little sisters of St. Francis of Assisi would metamorphose into a gaggle of money-hungry, lawyer-blandishing harpies.
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They introduce into our austerities their Italianate blandishments.
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Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.
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Long ago Faith had said in Soolsby's but that he "blandished" all with whom he came in contact; but Hylda realised with a lacerated heart that he had ceased to blandish her.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2
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When the most powerful alleviative known to medical science has bestowed the last Judas kiss which is necessary to emasculate its victim, and, sure of the prey, substitutes stabbing for blandishment, what alleviative, stronger than the strongest, shall soothe such doom?
The Opium Habit
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Despite all his blandishments, threats and persuasion, he did not get his heart's desire.
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The detainees resisted such standard blandishments as plea bargaining, cash, or relocation in the federal witness program.
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The main character in the novel is unable to resist the blandishments of the wicked queen who offers him the most delicious candy in the world.
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She is no stranger to blandishments.
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The internet is your friend here, too: pretty much every conference will list which agents they cajoled to it last year and/or those who will be blandished into being there this year.
Author! Author! » 2008 » January
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What red-blooded male could resist such blandishments?
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Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.
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Would the blandishing enchanter still weave his spells around me, or should I burst them all and turn away in coldness!
Master Humphrey's Clock
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But please, please do not again fall for the blandishments of peer pressure without asking why.
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Most likely he would have adopted this course in the end, had his will and his self-regard been stronger; but neither, it seems, was proof against the blandishments of the match-making perruquier.
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
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It should not be enough that he was subjected to blandishments and payment in order to persuade him to give evidence.
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We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
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The law, the church, letters, art, and politics all enticed him; but he could not decide of which mistress the blandishments were the sweetest.
The Bertrams
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But her first novel is why I blandished her into speaking to us today.
Author! Author! » 2009 » April
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Even after topping a shortlist of four, he resisted the company's blandishments.
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Such blandishments are difficult to catch, she said, and irresistible to rural voters.
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I’ve been busily blandishing Mike behind the scenes into gracing us again with his insights on comedy writing; since I’m a champion author-blandisher, I suspect that I shall succeed.
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Verana ignored their blandishments as she made her way through the throng, at last discovering a mass of grey tents erected in orderly fashion near one of the walls.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six
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However he was still able to offer blandishments to the bank.
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Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of
Ulysses
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I think this will be a key selling point: the old saying, "All roads lead to Rome", was a Western blandishment; all roads really lead to me.
Last Month in Queries
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It went on, until finally she acknowledged that Ibrahim Zarzi was immune to blandishment, refusal, shame, threat, or pressure.
Dead Zero
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While a pushy interviewer can make for an interesting scene if the interviewee resists his/her/its ostensibly subtle blandishments, the reader may well side against a protagonist who interviews like a push-poller.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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So far, so good, so much more credible—and spoiled only slightly by the blandishment that those that fail should present plans for recapitalization "as swiftly as possible.
Is This the End of the Beginning for the Euro Crisis?
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She raised her face veil139 and, showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing, she accosted the Porter and said in the suavest tones and choicest language, “Take up thy crate and follow me.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Normally, the blandishments offered up by stars lauding their latest vehicle are just so much blah.
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The nations amongst whom they were exiled were like the unclean idolaters of old, whose blandishments and evil influence must at all costs be resisted, until such time as God in His infinite mercy chose to redeem and vindicate His people.
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At various times during the fifteen years preceding the war, they had seen men of strong anti-slavery professions, with strong anti-slavery constituencies, "palter in a double sense" when intrusted with the duties of a representative in Congress, and fall from the faith, influenced by what were termed the blandishments of power, or as was sometimes more plainly said, corrupted by the gifts of patronage.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
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He mistrusted ravishment by charm, spiritual appeal, force, wit or other blandishments.
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But the other two were still older the blandishment of his child-like innocence.
Chapter IV
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Against every cajolement of one who was an adept in the arts of blandishment, promise and flattery, Kościuszko had but one argument: that of the straight-forward devotion that saw his country outraged, and that would accept no compromise where duty to that country and to his own honour were concerned.
Kościuszko A Biography
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Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour.
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The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion.
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
