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If the bee does not love to gather honey from the flower: if the Manitou does not love his white and red children, then Areotha has decoyed the boats ashore!

From Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind by Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers

So writes my good brother Arimbaldo, a man of letters, whom the Tribune thinks rightly he has decoyed with old tales of Roman greatness, and mighty promises of grateful advancement.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But the bait of local interests, artfully prepared for their palate, has decoyed them from their kindred attachments, to alliances alien to them.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

He has decoyed me into this boat, and he means to get rid of you.

From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Optic, Oliver