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Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

From The World English Bible (WEB): Hosea by Anonymous

Then in unwaning faithfulness He tenderly soliloquizes: "Behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her; and she shall sing as in the days of her youth."

From Sketches of the Covenanters by McFeeters, J. C.

Depend upon it, they will allure you to some haunt where the language is not even so choice as where the "final" is being played between two leading clubs.

From Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches by Bone, David Drummond

Sith never ought was excellent assayde Which was not hard t'atchive and bring to end; Ne ought so hard, but he that would attend Mote soften it and to his will allure.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Let us see whether this will allure him.

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry