Across all chapters, the sentences beguile and the story devastates.
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But Pisces energy can also beguile us into overlooking red flags.
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Its characters — deities or otherwise — wink and beguile, snark and swallow people whole.
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The president has not met a strongman whose machismo does not beguile him.
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Mr. Kurz is not the first young European leader to beguile Mr. Trump.
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Here's Odysseus passing the Sirens, magical songstresses whose songs beguile men into the sea.
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He perfected the art of dribbling at pace to beguile his opponents before scoring with grace.
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It bears a loose resemblance to the evangelical mega-churches that increasingly beguile the world's Christians.
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They've learned to beguile, To increase their cash pile Once grant funds are safe in their clampers.
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" Thomas Jefferson, Holt reminds us, said that thinking about mathematics helped "beguile the wearisomeness of declining life.
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While that's no mean feat, it isn't enough to draw you in, to beguile you, to take you elsewhere.
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His enigmatic works continue to challenge and beguile audiences more than half a century after he created his first "target" painting.
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But her own songs beguile with their singular focus, as on her self-titled EP of whispery, slow-blooming dance tunes.
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Global Soccer LONDON — The oldest cup competition of them all, England's F.A. Cup, still can beguile audiences from across the world.
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Early on, I fell for a bit of misdirection — "tramcar" for TRAMWAY and "bewitch" for BEGUILE — but crosses set me straight.
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The fantasy of walking out on your life and aimlessly wandering around can beguile even the most contentedly domesticated among us.
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Ronstadt had a voice tender enough to beguile audiences in small clubs and mighty enough to shake the rafters of big arenas.
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A food trend arrived two summers ago in the neighborhood of Toronto where I live that continues to beguile me for its endurance.
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Antic, joyless and sloppy, "Wilson" tries to provoke and beguile you, but the best you can manage is to feel sorry for it.
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Our electoral process has become corrupted, with politicians seeking to block some from the ballot and plutocrats seeking to beguile those who would vote.
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Still, given his innate centrist tendencies that still beguile the occasional moderate Republican, Mr Warner is wary of the cross-currents of presidential politics.
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The cult novel—the first in a thriving genre of "gone girls"—continues to beguile: it has been adapted into a new six-part miniseries.
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In Christopher Hampton's adaptation of the Pierre Choderlos de Laclos novel, French aristocrats beguile and torment each other with ruthlessness sharper than a guillotine's blade.
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The same things that beguile location scouts looking for a sense of place can be a great way to get a sense of a place.
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Photographs can do only so much to convey how overwrought some of these paintings are — and how they can beguile as much as they nauseate.
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He could get away with practically anything because practically nobody believed in his sincerity: people haplessly projected cynicism onto his forthright will to surprise and beguile.
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"He will circle them, beguile them, subordinate them to his desires," said Nikolai Kovarsky, an adviser to the organizing committee of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.
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I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
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The very best Saunders, with his slickster skillset, could beguile Alvarez, while the very best Alvarez could body-shot Saunders like he's never been body-shot before.
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Floating cows, flying goats, boldly colored geometric shapes — these elements in the exhibition "Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922" should beguile children.
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Prideful and passionate, House Martell is also known for its dedication to the pursuit of pleasure, so prepare yourself for a sensuous trip intended to beguile the senses.
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It was a vision to beguile many New Yorkers: an all-but-forgotten island in Long Island Sound that a noisy city would transform into its most tranquil park.
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Power, of the state and of the individual, circulates in a wild and destabilizing way among the three women as they plot and beguile and wield themselves like weapons.
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And if you'd like to beguile your eyes as well as your ears, investigate "Lighting the World: Menorahs Around the Globe," a show that features lamps from five centuries.
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But he's also solidly built, and it's the compound of the bruiser and the cad, with a voice sufficiently rich to upbraid or to beguile, that makes Burke's Anthony so unignorable.
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Ever since Alibaba listed its shares in New York four years ago, the company has used a sense of manifest destiny to beguile investors, stock analysts and an eager news media.
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Why does it beguile us, and why did people become so devoted to it, early on, that they defended it from the Army's customary practice of painting anything that doesn't move?
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Founding leader Kim Il Sung would beguile foreign visitors by coming across as not crazy but a reasonable, well-informed leader presiding over a small nation threatened by the mighty United States.
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It is, of course, a kind of expanded, highbrow version of the "house of mirrors" carnival attraction, which invites viewers to navigate a maze of reflective surfaces, designed to beguile the viewer.
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As the film did then, this gig exemplifies how performers in general and women in those roles especially are supposed to dazzle and beguile, but we're never meant to see them sweat.
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However, a teaching manual for its cadres, obtained by the Financial Times, sets out at length and in detail the organisation's global mission in language that is intended both to beguile and intimidate.
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Not only did her cuneiform cookies beguile her colleagues at the office party, they also gained some measure of internet renown after a Penn Museum publicist posted an article about how she made them.
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That's significant, of course, and a wonderful thing, but would mean nothing if it weren't also such a vibrant, readable translation -- the kind that can easily beguile you and a precocious middle grade child.
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But by the time they met, she was worldly enough to beguile him, having spent almost two decades living by her wits as a single woman, sharpening her skills in the office and the bedroom.
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Was the attack on the Marines at Khe Sanh simply a ruse to beguile the sclerotic Americans, and especially their obdurate leadership, into believing that Giap was attempting a repeat of the Dien Bien Phu victory?
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But whether you're busy trying to stop an infant ingest an entire roast dinner through its face or simply thumbing your way through another lunch buffet, please allow us to beguile this lazy hour with some delight.
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If anything, the digital arms race is accelerating, spurred by advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, as technologists working both sides of the political aisle develop ever-more-powerful tools to parse, analyze, and beguile the electorate.
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All good animated movies operate on multiple levels, providing the kind of visuals, action and humor that can beguile children while tapping into deeper ideas and concepts that resonate with those responsible for squiring them to the theater.
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These rich and romantic black and white images from Patjane's project, Underwater Realm, are meant to beguile but also educate the viewer on the abundance of life in the sea and how our actions — like overfishing — threaten their future.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Online games and short video apps have been among the few beneficiaries of China's virus outbreak, raking in millions of views and downloads as people stuck in self-quarantine at home seek entertainment and ways to beguile their time.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Online games and short video apps have been among the few beneficiaries of China's virus outbreak, raking in millions of views and downloads as people stuck in self-quarantine at home seek entertainment and ways to beguile their time.
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Butting up against (but not, in fact, containing) the University of Notre Dame, South Bend is a moderately-sized town confronting many of the economic challenges that beguile the post-industrial Midwest with the advantage of being next to a large research university.
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The need to beguile would-be buyers is just as evident at Fortescue Fields, Norton St. Philip, deep in the countryside near Bath, 115 miles to the west of London, where more than 50 houses have been built on the site of an old chicken farm.
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While, on Pink, in that same book, you beguile us with yet one more instance of the shapeshifting I've applauded: To the objection that her work is not a valid contribution to the philosophical tradition which has taken up love as an object of inquiry, I'd simply say something obvious, which is that pop is for many of us a prerequisite course in the regime of signs by which we understand what these signifiers, like love and hate, even mean.
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Even his effulgently pinkish floral still-lifes abjure virtuosity, though they beguile.
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I've seen her mystify and beguile audiences before with her great stage presence and all around snazziness.
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He may ensorcell or beguile a fellow drinker, leading him to believe in friendship that is not supported by his conduct.
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Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd And disdaining to be pleas'd Till Alecto free the dead From their eternal bands, Till the snakes drop from her head, And the whip from out her hands. Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. The text is part of a longer musical interlude in act 3, scene 1 of Oedipus.
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Brachyscome decipiens was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker and the description was published in the London Journal of Botany. The specific epithet (decipiens) is derived from the Latin word decipio meaning "to beguile" or "to cheat".
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As part of that season's success, Women's Wear Daily named him "Rookie of the Year."Beguile by Byron Lars, accessed Sept. 14, 2012. Retailers to carry his work include Bergdorf, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdales, Henri Bendel, Neiman- Marcus, and Anthropologie.
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He discusses her use of her sexuality to "beguile her enemies." Chris Greening for Video Game Music Online discussed how various themes are used throughout the game to demonstrate how Edea's character grows. They cite "The Sacrifice" and "Premonition" as identifying of Edea's dark side, while "The Successor" represents her true nature.
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But Zeus devises a plan with Cadmus and Pan to beguile Typhon.Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.363–407 (I pp. 28–33). Cadmus, desguised as a shepherd, enchants Typhon by playing the panpipes, and Typhon entrusting the thuderbolts to Gaia, sets out to find the source of the music he hears.Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.409–426 (I pp. 32–35).
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European Ceramic Design 1500–1830, p. 180. A special display room was built to beguile the fashionable company. Wedgwood's in fact had become one of the most fashionable meeting places in London. His workers had to work day and night to satisfy the demand, and the crowds of visitors showed no sign of abating.
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Dr. Rank, a friend of the Helmers, is dying of a terminal disease and decides to admit to Nora and that he is in love with her. A financial crisis begins to beguile Torvald while Nora slowly loses her composure.DESIRÉ central station 2009: Haris Pasovic, theater director ahead of its time, cited December 14, 2011.
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Derivative terms are "a charm" (goḗteuma, plural goēteúmata) and "to bewitch, beguile" (goēteúō). was a term for the magic in the Greco-Roman world. Its Latinized form is '; in the 16th century, English adopted it as goecie or goety (and the adjectival form goetic), via French '. During the Renaissance, goëtia was sometimes contrasted with magia, as "evil magic" vs.
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Frightened by his Tapas, they sent five lovely Apsaras to beguile him and seduce him from his vows. They succeeded in their mission, and became bound to Māṇḍakarṇi as his wives. Through his holy power he created a wondrous palace under the lake for the heavenly dames to enjoy. The lake is called Panchāpsaras ([the lake of] Five Apsaras (Nymphs)).
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Jenny appears twice more in the series, first in "Becoming", as part of an illusion the vampire Drusilla (Juliet Landau) creates to beguile Giles into telling Angelus, who is torturing him, what he needs to know.Tracy, pp. 232–235. She again appears in the third-season episode "Amends" as the guise of the First Evil, who assumes the faces of many people Angel has killed, tormenting him and insisting he kill Buffy.Stafford, pp. 197–198.
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As a cultural representation of voracious Asian sexuality, the Dragon Lady is a beautiful, charming woman who readily and easily dominates men. For the White man, the Dragon Lady is the sexual Other who represents morally degrading sexual desire. In the cinematic genre of the Western, the cowboy town usually features a scheming Asian prostitute who uses her prettiness, sex appeal, and charisma to beguile and dominate the White man.Dhingra, Pawan, Rodíiguez, Robyn Magalit.
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Oliver cites several scenes in the play where Hortensio (or his absence) causes problems. For example, in Act 2, Scene 1, Tranio (as Lucentio) and Gremio bid for Bianca, but Hortensio, who everyone is aware is also a suitor, is never mentioned. In Act 3, Scene 1, Lucentio (as Cambio) tells Bianca "we might beguile the old Pantalowne" (l.36), yet says nothing of Hortensio's attempts to woo her, instead implying his only rival is Gremio.
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Satan's Earth bound minions, be they human devil worshippers or demons themselves, have tried to free their dark lord from his imprisonment though all have failed. As such, he tends to work through human channels using deceit and treachery to beguile humans and let them do the "dirty work." The most significant example of these was Germany's National Socialists, or Nazis. It is worth noting that there is a great variety of demons and not all obey Satan; indeed, most do not.
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He died on 31 December 1696, his funeral sermon being preached by Daniel Williams, while Daniel Defoe, a member of his congregation, wrote an elegy on his death: :The sacred bow he so divinely drew, :That every shot both hit and overthrew; :His native candour and familiar style, :Which do so often his hearers' hours beguile, :Charmed us with godliness, and while he spake, :We loved the doctrine for the speaker's sake. He was buried in St. Leonard's Churchyard, Shoreditch, in an unmarked plot.
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The first man and woman are in God's Garden of Eden, where all creation is vegetarian and there is no violence. They are permitted to eat of all the trees except one, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The woman is tempted by a talking serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, and gives some to the man, who eats also. (Contrary to popular myth she does not beguile the man, who appears to have been present at the encounter with the serpent).
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They send Mohini, an apsara or celestial enchantress, to beguile Rukmangada. Mohini succeeds in her mission; upon first sight, the king is utterly bewitched by her beauty. A courtship ensues and Mohini extracts promises from the king to the effect that she will stay with him only as long as he grants her every wish and never thwarts her in anything. In particular, the promise is given that since Rukmangada is ardently seeking Mohini's favour today, he must never rebuff her when she makes advances to him in future.
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In southern New Mexico, Mellick had a difference of opinion with a Comanche pony, and as a result was unable to stand, walk, or write. To beguile the pains and tedium of his hours on a lounge, he betook himself to the writing of this book. The work was undertaken at a time when his sufferings were great, and his opportunities of composition so casual as to make the employment of a regular amanuensis impracticable. The chance services of friends and the members of his family were all that he could command.
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The plan is to beguile the escorts of the valuables to drink the drugged wine in one of his two buckets. Bai crosses the ridge carrying the buckets suspended on a pole on the day the soldiers, disguised as merchants, come by its top and take a rest in a grove as the weather is terribly hot. Meanwhile Chao Gai and his gang, posing as date traders, are already there pretending too to have a respite in their journey. Happy to see a wine seller, the escorts think they could have some refreshment.
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No one knows what the contents are but Dunderklumpen and One-Eye are both sure it's priceless. One-Eye's signature tool is a small counterfeiting machine he uses to beguile the toys and Dunderklumpen. Following Dunderklumpen into the woods, Jens meets a flower which name is Blossom, who travels on an umbrella and helps him along the way. The gang also meets the flying paper Malte (one of Jens drawings come to life), the living- talking mountain Jorm, and an elderly woman name Elvira Fattigan who's an old friend of One-Eye.
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Husrev Pasha was the first Ottoman governor of Egypt after the expulsion of the French. The form of government, however, was not the same as that before the French invasion, for the Mamluks were not reinstated. The pasha, and through him the Sultan, repeatedly tried to either ensnare them or to beguile them into submission. These efforts failing, Husrev took the field and a Turkish detachment 7,000 strong was dispatched against the Mamluks to Damanhur—whence they had descended from Upper Egypt—and was defeated by a small force under either al-Alfi or his lieutenant al-Bardisi.
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Eucalyptus decipiens was first formally described in 1837 by the botanist Stephan Endlicher from a specimen collected near King Georges Sound by Charles von Hügel. The description was published in the book Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel. The specific epithet (decipiens) is derived from the Latin word decipio meaning "to beguile" or "to cheat" but the reason Endlicher gave this name is not clear, but may refer to its similarity to another species. Subspecies, including E. decipiens subsp.
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She passed... and nothing of her is left but a heartbreak and a memory.” Shifting focus from his daughter, Twain recounts brief memories of dangerous situations he witnessed as a young man. Years later, these moments have morphed into anxieties revisited during sleepless nights. Twain tells the reader of his eventual conclusion: “They were inventions of Providence to beguile me to a better life.” A final section of the chapter recalls the inspiration for Twain's short story “Jim Wolf and the Cats.” This piece was eventually disseminated far enough that other authors began to take credit for it.
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The Ballad Plot upon Plot focused on the many "pathetic" attempts of the Whigs to take down the Tory party. > "Some of your Machiavelian crew From heavy roof of Paul Most traitorously > stole every screw, To make that fabric fall; And so to catch Her Majesty, > And all her friends beguile." (Plot Upon Plot, Jonathan Swift) By the nineteenth century, the Screw Plot was regarded as a hoax, simply an inefficient building project blown out of proportion by on-edge Tory Party members. Many recognized figures, such as Sir Walter Scott merely dismiss in- depth discussion in their works focusing on the time during Anne's reign.
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A new villainous Star Sapphire debuted in Green Lantern Vol 5 #21 (August 2013). Prixiam Nol-Anj was a former prisoner of the Oan sciencells, imprisoned for a slew of different crimes: racketeering, smuggling, extortion, murder for hire, abduction, trafficking in organisms, larceny, grand theft starship, and assault with an energy weapon. Over time, she uses her wiles to beguile her guard, a Green Lantern named Cossite, and he falls in love with her. When Larfleeze attacks Oa in the aftermath of the First Lantern's defeat and the death of the Guardians, his constructs kill a Star Sapphire who arrived to aid in the defense of the planet.
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Even the roads to Xibalba were filled with obstacles: first a river filled with scorpions, a river filled with blood, and then a river filled with pus. Beyond these was a crossroads where travellers had to choose from among four roads that spoke in an attempt to confuse and beguile. Upon passing these obstacles, one would come upon the Xibalba council place, where it was expected visitors would greet the seated Lords. Realistic mannequins were seated near the Lords to confuse and humiliate people who greeted them, and the confused would then be invited to sit upon a bench, which was actually a hot cooking surface.
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Although he enjoyed himself at first in Liverpool, after some years in the city he eventually came to want to return to the Isle of Man. He expressed his feelings in a poem he composed at that time, A poem about things I have seen in Liverpool:Skeealyn Aesop by Edward Faragher, Douglas: S.K. Broadbent, 1901 :Farewell to phantasy and art :That never can fill up my heart, :And those fair maids, with witching smile, :No more can my sad heart beguile; :For still my fancy lingers where :The youthful Kitty blooms so fair, :And father tills my native soil :Among the hills of Mona's Isle.
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Celia takes her position on the game board as the illusionist who makes true transformations, adding tents and maintaining wondrous aspects from the inside. Mr. A.H- trains his orphan ward with books in the ways of glyphs and sympathetic magic and illusory worlds that exist only in the mind of the beholder. Marco takes a position as an assistant to the producer of the circus—he works from the outside in, connected to the circus via a magical link to the central bonfire, but not a part of it. The two beguile the circus goers and each other with nightly wonders, soon falling in love despite being magically bound to a deadly competition with rules neither understands.
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Rare and costly materials are everywhere: hand-adzed quartered oak, Hungarian ash crotch, bird's-eye maple, Balinese rosewood, Malaysian teak, and Italian marble. The auditorium is unmatched for its refulgent splendor, with gilded galaxies of whorls and gold walls with sculpted motifs from the Bible and mythology. Outside and in, the Paramount radiates the dream-world escapism with which sought to beguile its customers.Smith, G. E. Kidder. Source Book of American Architecture: 500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to the Present, Princeton Architectural Press, page 372, (2000) – The Paramount organ was built by Wurlitzer for the Paramount Publix theaters: a four-manual, twenty-rank model called the Publix I (Opus 2164), which cost $20,000 in 1931.
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Dinosaur Sounds is a 2003 Catch 22 album and shows the band finally emerging from the shadow of former frontman Tomas Kalnoky. The album is a radical departure from previous work; while the band maintains its trademark aggression and inquisitive nature, the topics have steered back to rock and roll staples like relationship woes and alcohol, occasionally dabbling into the dark themes that made the band so distinctive compared to its ska contemporaries. "Beguile the Time" features a brief but powerful anti-war message, while "So Cold" sounds like a salvo being fired towards Kalnoky and his new outfit, Streetlight Manifesto. The album received mixed reviews, thanks in part to the band's recent loss of their main vocalist Jeff Davidson.
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"I was destined to beguile, to attract, to seduce, and in the final reckoning to cause suffering in all those who sought their happiness in me", Louise wrote; "I wanted to marry young and have a brilliant position in society. And that, basically, was the only reason I wanted to marry him", she said. Upon her marriage, she became Louise de Cléron, Viscountess d'Haussonville. (She would later become Louise de Cléron, Countess d'Haussonville upon the death of her father-in-law in 1846.) Whatever her initial sentiments, the marriage seems to have evolved into a happy one; the couple lived in the Hôtel de Broglie, 35 rue Saint-Dominique, a residence renovated for them by the fashionable architect and interior designer Hippolyte Destailleur.
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Scholars favoring Lincoln's authorship, including Edward Steers and Jason Emerson, note that the Gettysburg Address and the Farewell Address are similar examples of Lincoln's highly regarded style. Other scholars, such as Burlingame, have countered that Hay wrote pieces that compare favorably to the Bixby letter and note words and phrases in the letter that appear more frequently in Hay's writings than those of Lincoln. For instance, Burlingame notes the word beguile appears numerous times in the works of Hay and the phrase I cannot refrain from tendering is used by Hay in an 1864 letter to Quincy Gillmore, but neither appears once in the other collected works of Lincoln. However, the phrase I cannot refrain from is used by Lincoln in an 1859 letter to Salmon P. Chase.
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Tom and Lola are a young boy and girl who are victims of a rare disease which means that they are prevented from any contact with the outside world. They are kept inside plastic bubbles in a Paris hospital. In this aseptic and strictly controlled microcosm run by doctors especially chosen for the task, the children are left with almost no external stimuli, other than an old black and white TV set tuned to educational films about subjects such as whale song, trains, and a show called The Adventures of Tikira in Alaska. Tom's mother is in constant attendance, but her increasingly desperate attempts to beguile him have alienated her almost totally from them, and apart from Hélène, a member of the medical team who has been their nearest thing to a parent, Tom and Lola's only close attachment is to each other.
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Harpham calls Žižek's style "a stream of nonconsecutive units arranged in arbitrary sequences that solicit a sporadic and discontinuous attention."Harpham "Doing the Impossible: Slavoj Žižek and the End of Knowledge" O'Neill concurs: "a dizzying array of wildly entertaining and often quite maddening rhetorical strategies are deployed in order to beguile, browbeat, dumbfound, dazzle, confuse, mislead, overwhelm, and generally subdue the reader into acceptance."O'Neill, "The Last Analysis of Slavoj Žižek" Such presentation has laid him open to accusations of misreading other philosophers, particularly Jacques Lacan and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Žižek carries over many concepts from Lacan's teachings into the sphere of political and social theory, but has a tendency to do so in an extreme deviation from its psychoanalytic context.Ian Parker, Slavoj Žižek: A Critical Introduction (Pluto Press: London and Sterling, 2004) p.78-80.
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Judith, Ch 10: "3 There she removed the sackcloth she was wearing and taking off her widow's dress, she washed all over, anointed herself plentifully with perfumes, dressed her hair, wrapped a turban round it and put on the robe of joy she used to wear when her husband Manasseh was alive. 4 She put sandals on her feet, put on her necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings and all her jewellery, and made herself beautiful enough to beguile the eye of any man who saw her." The murky background at the left includes a fitting at the top, between the two women's heads, which is described as a lock by Panofsky, though it might be a hinge also.Neginsky, 96 This marks the vertical edge of a zone with a slightly different tint, perhaps showing the transition from a door to a wall.
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Elisabeth Tova Bailey is the author of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (2010, Algonquin Books, ) which won the 2010 John Burroughs Medal, the Natural History Literature category of the 2010 National Outdoor Book Award (joint award), and the non-fiction category of the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. In the book she describes her observations of an individual land snail in the species Neohelix albolabris which lived in a terrarium next to her while she was confined to bed through illness. In her essay A Green World Deep in Winter: The Bedside Terrarium, published in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Bailey describes how Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, inventor of the Wardian case, had published during the mid 19th century a report on the "Use of Closed Cases in Illness", explaining the benefit of a terrarium to bed-ridden patients in order to "beguile many a weary hour".
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However, that colour is also important when it comes to matching up coloured rings later in the game to magnify the effects of spell- casting. One particularly memorable quirk of the game is the ability granted to players to hold simple conversations with traders, other champions, and even enemies during combat. Stock pseudo-medieval phrases such as "Truly my courage is remarkable" and "Begone, thou oaf" are selected using a menu, and can be used in combination to flatter a desired companion, aggravate an enemy, or lower the price of an item which the player wishes to purchase. Many gameplayers have found that the price of a long sword (RRP 10 gold pieces) can fall to as little as 6 or 7 after the shopkeeper has been buttered-up with phrases such as "Thou seems fine" - particularly when this strategy is used in conjunction with the Beguile spell (most effectively cast by Megrim).
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To gain information about this suspected betrayal, he hatches a plan. He suggests to his friend and associate, Earl Marshall, that they both disguise themselves as French priests and go to hear the queen's confession. Earl Marshall instantly refuses (in some versions of the ballad), saying that to "beguile" the queen in this way is a punishable crime for which he'll surely be hanged. (The implication is that Earl Marshall knows very well what the content of the queen's confession will be and does not want to be there with King Henry when she delivers it.) Desperate to learn what the queen has been doing behind his back, King Henry swears a royal oath (in most versions of the ballad) to Earl Marshall that regardless of what the queen might say, no official record will be made of it and no one will ever know that Earl Marshall helped deceive the queen.
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Joe must then decide whether to listen to the influence of a cigar smoking gnome-like Dewey supporter and wrecker who tries to make him fall asleep at the switch, or to fight that influence and make sure that the Roosevelt "Win the War Special" stays on the track towards Washington. At one point, the phantasmagoric saboteur briefly metamorphosizes into Adolf Hitler whilst trying to beguile Joe into neglecting his duties. After a notable nightmare sequence, in which Joe fights his way through sales taxes (tacks), 'frozen' wages, and rising prices (depicted by a boxcar always increasing in height so that he is never able to climb on to the roof), he pulls the switch to sideline the Defeatist Limited. The train tries to stop by running into reverse, which damages many of its cars, but when he is not able to slow down and hitting the switch which is against him, the train engine and his cars derail and crash.
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I was now dragged on Deck in my Shirt & closely > guarded – I demanded of Christian the case of such a violent act, & severely > degraded for his Villainy but he could only answer – "not a word sir or you > are Dead." I dared him to the act & endeavoured to rally some one to a sense > of their duty but to no effect.... The Secrisy of this Mutiny is beyond all > conception so that I can not discover that any who are with me had the least > knowledge of it. It is unbeknown to me why I must beguile such force. Even > Mr. Tom Ellison took such a liking to Otaheite [Tahiti] that he also turned > Pirate, so that I have been run down by my own Dogs... My misfortune I trust > will be properly considered by all the World – It was a circumstance I could > not foresee – I had not sufficient Officers & had they granted me Marines > most likely the affair would never have happened – I had not a Spirited & > brave fellow about me & the Mutineers treated them as such.
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