Harley attempted to entice him to join the Tories, but Walpole rejected the offers, instead becoming one of the most outspoken members of the Whig Opposition.

Henry, old, corpulent, sick and lonely, takes to the mature twice-widowed lady ; her honesty and calmness entice him.

He died in Florence at the age of 79-the Medici had never allowed him to leave Florence, as they rightly feared that either the Austrian or Spanish Habsburgs would entice him into permanent employment.

In biblical times, because unmarried females who lost their virginity had also lost much of their value as marriage prospects, the Old Testament Book of Exodus specifies that the seducer must marry his victim or pay her father to compensate him for his loss of the marriage price: " And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Hannibal now knew that he could provoke Tiberius and made plans to entice him across the river where his troops could be slaughtered without assistance from the camp.

Alcibiades thought at the time that what Socrates really wanted was him, and by letting Socrates have his way with him, he would entice Socrates to teach him everything he knew ( 217a ).

His lectures were legendary, less for their adept showmanship than for Ginger's uncanny ability to entice even the greenest and most awkward undergraduate to join him on a mutually thrilling journey of intellectual exploration.

At the Battle of Garigliano it is said that he single-handedly defended the bridge of the Garigliano against 200 Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II tried unsuccessfully to entice him into his service.

The girls entice Daphnis and dance around him.

Julia's behavior seems to be extremely aberrant: She seems to pay heed to nothing other than trying to entice Jack and kissing him, even when Charley is found dead in the locked communications room with a swarm flying around him and the communication links cut.

Attempting to entice him to sign with the Canucks, numerous Vancouver businesses extended Swedish-centred special offers, such as a Volvo and IKEA products.

The Sultan tried to entice Zrinski to surrender, ultimately offering him leadership of Croatia under Ottoman influence, Count Zrinsky did not reply and continued to fight.

" When the witch offers him a snake to entice him, he climbs up the tree which he is in and stays there until his grandmother comes and gets him for supper.

Spiggott tries to entice Stanley again, but Stanley turns him down.

Tanner is a confirmed bachelor despite the pursuits of Ann Whitefield and her persistent efforts to entice him to marry her.

In an attempt to entice Rose Wilson and make a profit, Clock King releases Static and sets him against Rose in the ring.

The skill lies both in convincing other players that the shuffle is legitimate and in ensuring that other players receive hands that are good enough to entice them into play, but not too good to arouse suspicion.

Proprietors who house dabo games in their establishments often employ attractive women ( colloquially, " dabo girls ") to run the games, entice customers to play and distract their attention.

A trick used to entice some of the animals near the camera was to play a recording of the same species in the hope that the target would not only answer back, but investigate its source as well.

He does not elaborate further so it will never be known if the Nervii were trying to entice the skirmishers onto their hidden position or holding them in play on the slopes in preparation for the planned rush.

The apparent players actually serve various roles in the swindle: they act as lookouts for the police ; they also serve as " muscle " to intimidate marks who become unruly and some are shills, whose job is to pretend to play the game, and entice the mark into betting.

The developers, however, forgot to create an attract mode — an automated sequence designed to entice an audience to play — for the game, and began working on it that night.

The aim is to entice the batsman to play at the ball with the bat away from the body (' fishing outside off-stump ').

In the event the player loses, the computer controlled victor will taunt the player and the corner man for the player will try to entice the player to play again (" Come on, stand up and fight!

This could be considered a Grand Slam because she won four majors in a row, and interestingly the Australian used to be played at the end of a year, but was moved to January to entice more top players to play it in hopes of starting a Grand Slam run.

A few years later, Worcestershire coach Tom Moody, who had known Mason since the bowler was a teenager, tried to entice him to New Road to play county cricket, but was turned down ; however, a second approach was accepted and Mason became a Worcestershire player in time for the 2002 season.

St. John, while prophesying from the isle of Patmos, had this to say of Balaam: " There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.

The third edition demonstrates how we have created new " cathedrals " of consumption ( places that enchant us so as to entice us to stay longer and consume more ) while continuing to take capitalism to a new level.

Cartman manages to entice Skyler out of his house with a taping of his Salma Hayek impersonation while Shelley sneaks in and destroys his prized guitar.

Much of her dancing expertise resides in her ability to entice the male while skillfully avoiding being touched by his vacunao.

Other techniques used commonly by the Mongols were completely psychological and were used to entice / lure enemies into vulnerable positions by showing themselves from a hill or some other predetermined locations, then disappearing into the woods or behind hills while the Mongols ' flank troops already strategically positioned would appear as if out of nowhere from the left, right and / or from their rear.

Value supermarket brands are sold at considerably less than known brands, sometimes even below cost price, to entice the shopper into the store.

Along the village, succubi entice the tainted souls who come to Nomen Tuum and lead them to their deaths in order to offer their souls to Hell / the God of Darkness.

Somehow Colbert managed to entice Caron into accepting a leadership role in this nascent enterprise.

A player who has very little or no chance of winning will often try to entice the opponent to inadvertently place the player's king in stalemate in order to avoid a loss.

Cartier was a consummate salesman who used an understated presentation to entice Mrs. McLean.

In early 1977, Bolan got a new band together, released a new album, Dandy in the Underworld, and set out on a fresh UK tour, taking along punk band The Damned as support to entice a young audience who did not remember his heyday.

Another was Greta Garbo's portrayal of the real-life, notorious, seductive German double agent code-named Mata Hari ( Gertrud Zelle ) in WWI in Mata Hari ( 1932 ), who performed a pearl-draped dance to entice French officers to divulge their secrets.

In 1979, Microsoft moved its offices back to Redmond from Albuquerque, New Mexico -- they had gone to New Mexico to be near a client who no longer dominated their business, Gates and Allen wanted to go back where they were from, and it was easier to entice quality programmers to the Seattle area than the deserts of New Mexico.

This concept, also called " stock for services " and sometimes " equity compensation " or " sweat equity " can also be seen when startup companies use their shares of stock to entice service providers to provide necessary corporate services in exchange for a discount or for deferring service fees until a later date, see e. g. " Idea Makers and Idea Brokers in High Technology Entrepreneurship " by Todd L. Juneau et al., Greenwood Press, 2003, which describes equity for service programs involving patent lawyers and securities lawyers who specialize in start-up companies as clients.

After being raped and left to die in their burning hut by a group of soldiers, the pair return to Earth as demons who entice samurai into a bamboo grove, where they are killed.

At this meeting Yahweh asks who will entice Ahab to go into battle so that he may perish ( 1 Kings 22: 19-20 ).

* Leslie Bevis as Sheila, an exotic nymphomaniac who often appeared to entice Dan into a sexual liaison during or after court to his detriment.

Dryads present themselves as lithe and lovely maidens who entice the unwary into entering the forest.

Too, Copeau wanted to entice into the theatre new playwrights, perhaps those who had despaired that the theatre would ever present works of quality.

* Strimbello: A man who operates an ominous club designed to entice children to enter a situation where they can be mentally damaged for the benefit of the Grail Brotherhood.

This capacity reduction would also serve to entice manufacturers who were already building 3-litre Formula One engines into endurance racing.

Download. com awarded the game a 5-star editor's rating and described the game as a classic in the making, " Warning Forever will entice nearly every gamer who enjoys a space shootout ".

It is believed the trade was made because the Islanders, who would have the first overall pick in the upcoming draft, intended to draft Denis Potvin, and believed having his older brother on the team would entice him to sign with the Isles instead of going to the rival World Hockey Association.

It had been expected that this would entice from the United States immigrants who would become loyal citizens and add to the province ’ s defensive capability.

Despite outcries from traditionalist photographers who complained about an “ excess ” of automation ruining the art of photography, automation proved to be the only way to entice the amateur photographer.

Norris Bradbury, who replaced Robert Oppenheimer as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in late 1945, revived such projects in order to entice scientists to remain at, or return to, Los Alamos.