Sentence example with the word 'allures'

allures

Last update: October 15, 2015


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21, 22; compound creatures); (14) the hedgehog (pricks grapes upon its quills); (15) the fox (catches birds by simulating death); (16) the panther (spotted skin; enmity to the dragon; sleeps for three days after meals; allures its prey by sweet odour); (17) the sea-tortoise (or aspidochelone; mistaken by sailors for an island); (18) the partridge (hatches eggs of other birds); (19) the vulture (assisted in birth by a stone with loose kernel); (20) the ant-lion (able neither to take the one food nor to digest the other); (21) the weasel (conceives by the mouth and brings forth by the ear); (22) the unicorn (caught only by a virgin); (23) the beaver (gives up its testes when pursued); (24) the hyaena (a hermaphrodite); (25) the otter (enhydris; enters the crocodile's mouth to kill it); (26) the ichneumon (covers itself with mud to kill the dragon; another version of No.   [Please select]

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It lurks beyond me--it allures--and beckons--and recedes--I almost grasp it and it is gone.   [Please select]

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_ l'etranger se leva en conservant les allures mysterieuses qui le caracterisaient, et me quitta.'   [Please select]

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Ses etranges allures avaient attire l'attention des sauvages, qui, tous, l'observaient.   [Please select]

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Birds are creatures who must be wooed and it must be delicate and careful wooing which allures them into friendship.   [Please select]

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Where a sovereign that attracts, baffles, repels, allures, like Mary Queen of Scots,--and where, tell me where, is there a Pretender like Bonnie Prince Charlie.   [Please select]

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