allurings
English
Noun
allurings
- plural of alluring
- 1615, George Wither, Fidelia
- Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ?
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
- 1952, Daughters of the American Revolution magazine (volume 86, page 250)
- Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own.
- 1615, George Wither, Fidelia
This article is issued from
Wiktionary.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.