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This happy event, needless to say, never did occur, though the police made every effort to trace the man who had decoyed Schwarz into the cab.

From The Old Man in the Corner by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

He had decoyed Anita from her duty by his millions.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

"Listen; you arrived in Paris three months ago, accompanied by a young demoiselle whom you had decoyed from her home."

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur

It must have been his father’s fatal ship which had decoyed them to probable destruction.

From The Phantom Ship by Marryat, Frederick

Kirstie had decoyed him to her room and given him “a jeely-piece.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis