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seduce

verb To persuade a person to engage in sexual activity without resorting to physical force or coercion/intimidation.

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Never was there a more consummate love-making, with all the base intent of betrayal, than this cavalier seduction of Michael by the elderly, six-quart ship's steward.

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It could not be his silvery tongue, or the subtle seduction of his manner; he had no more of what is called "manner" than an animal--which, however, on the other hand, is never, and can never be called vulgar.

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We drove sullenly through Brienz, dead to the seductions of its bewildering array of Swiss carvings and the clamorous HOO-hooing of its cuckoo clocks, and had not entirely recovered our spirits when we rattled across a bridge over the rushing blue river and entered the pretty town of Interlaken.

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D'Artagnan reassured her as well as he could, and promised to remain insensible to the seductions of Milady.

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She struggled against these feelings, and smiled, as she thought she was shaking off the last lingering feeling of nature, when the world, and all its seductions, rushed again to her heart, with the sounds of a human, voice, crying in piercing tones:

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But that which was not just was, that, when in England, this woman, by her seductions, completely enslaved a young man in the service of Lord de Winter, by name Felton.

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Though much time is spent by the pool or playing volleyball, a key seduction scene involves the witty use of a piano.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

2) Despite the variety of these approaches, though, little to no mention has been made of seduction, which is an understated but recurring motif throughout the legendarium.

"It had been his virtue, and therefore also the cause of his fall": seduction as a mythopoeic accounting for evil in Tolkien's work

Seduction picks up shortly after Poison (Simon & Schuster, 2012/VOYA December 2012) ends.

Cochran, Molly. Seduction: Legacy, Book 3

It's a long story and if I start narrating how I came across the concept of Manganiyar Seduction, I'll sound like a broken tape recorder," said Roysten Abel with a laugh, the director of the musical show which will be held in Dubai this weekend.

Roysten Abel: Manganiyar Seduction is more than just folk music

31 Days: A Memoir of Seduction is a true story of real-life passion, although some names have been changed.

31 Days: A Memoir of Seduction

He regarded the correspondence of young men with young women a serious seduction and great danger which should be avoided.