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Meanings of tempting bait in English
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Usage of tempting bait in English
1
The voracious shark saw the tempting bait, and made a dash at it.
2
The American authorities then held out an even more tempting bait.
3
In an instant a huge albatross pounced down on the tempting bait, and was hooked.
4
They will take a tempting bait when held before their noses-sometimes; at other times, not.
5
There was a very tempting bait, Marseilles lying to the south, inviting attack and pillage.
6
Go where he would now, he was a tempting bait offered to treason and cupidity.
7
The Widow Douglas' splendid hospitality was a tempting bait.
8
Beeton waited, refusing all sorts of tempting bait, and during that waiting Fearing stole second.
9
The tempting bait hung always before his eyes.
10
I had placed tempting bait for both Maroney and his wife, and they were nibbling strongly.
11
There was not an expression which was not a tempting bait to the marquis's evil instincts.
12
The councils are a tempting bait.
13
My trap has a tempting bait, the spring is strong, and we shall catch every one of them.
14
The reward of two thousand gold ducats was a tempting bait for desperadoes and others in need of coin.
15
The vast herds of cattle and great rice plantations of the south offered a tempting bait to every foe.
16
Eriphyle, unable to withstand the tempting bait, accepted the bribe, and thus Amphiaraus was compelled to join the army.
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