Two hours ago, as Tom was walking to St Ogg's, he saw the distant future before him as he might have seen a tempting stretch of smooth sandy beach beyond a belt of flinty shingles; he was on the grassy bank then, and thought the shingles might soon be passed.
The appearance of the little girls suggested to uncle Pullet the further solace of small sweet-cakes, of which he also kept a stock under lock and key for his own private eating on wet days; but the three children had no sooner got the tempting delicacy between their fingers, than aunt Pullet desired them to abstain from eating it till the tray and the plates came, since with those crisp cakes they would make the floor "all over" crumbs.
The black locks were so thick, nothing could be more tempting to a lad who had already tasted the forbidden pleasure of cutting the pony's mane.
It's the way to make any trumpery tempting, to ticket it at a high price in that way.
Casaubon suspected him—namely, that Dorothea might become a widow, and that the interest he had established in her mind might turn into acceptance of him as a husband—had no tempting, arresting power over him; he did not live in the scenery of such an event, and follow it out, as we all do with that imagined "otherwise" which is our practical heaven.
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
The Life Adventurous was so new a thing to him, and so thrilling; and this fresh aspect of it was so tempting; and he had fallen in love at first sight with the canary-coloured cart and all its little fitments.
Besides, a taste for flowers is always desirable in your sex, as a means of getting you out of doors, and tempting you to more frequent exercise than you would otherwise take.
" The Widow Douglas' splendid hospitality was a tempting bait.
It can be tempting to create a culinary masterpiece to make the time worth it, but fight the urge.
The Internet is a fantastic, but tempting place.
Guest: That sounds very tempting.
After a long day under the beating sun, an ice cream might be a tempting treat.
Everyday health hazard 2: Eating at your desk2: If you're having a busy day in work, it can be tempting to skip your lunch break and eat at your desk.
Using tempting moves, she surveyed the room.
It is very tempting and almost involuntary to look back on the past and obsess over something we regret or something we miss.
All that was much more tempting to me than the rules concerning participles; but I had the strength to resist, and I ran as fast as I could to school.
Opponents are well aware of this, but it's often too tempting to resist going for the steal, no matter how many times they see Harden get the and-1 against reaching defenders.
Over-using eye drops While it's tempting to reach for the eye drops rather than put up with looking like a pink-eyed bunny, you can have too much of a good thing, say experts, as plenty of eye drops can lead to a rebound effect.
It's tempting to run to a doctor, but give some of these home remedies a go first.