Beguile

As is the wont of seamen, to beguile their toil one of them sang a song, in the chorus of which the others joined at intervals.

But crafty Cytherea planned meanwhile / new arts, new schemes: that Cupid should conspire, / in likeness of Ascanius, to beguile / the queen with gifts, and kindle fierce desire, / and turn the marrow of her bones to fire.

See, to beguile the old folks, how the young folks lay their heads together!

He can beguile you with his manners.

And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.

I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you, in a plain accent, was a plain knave.

1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.

I will never touch The Orb, even though its mysterious glow seduces and beguiles.

We beguiled the hours away.

They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.