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He remained a true christian in the midst of idolatry; unallured by the splendours of a court, untainted by evil examples, and uncontaminated by the hopes of preferment.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

Yes, give me that but Nature has taught, By rank unallured and by riches unbought; Whose very simplicity keeps it secure— The love that illumines the heart of the poor.

From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various

It was here that my own free mind, uncompelled by pedagogues and unallured by prizes, first achieved a whole chapter in the Bible.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various