Wile

(n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

(v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.

(v. t.) To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.

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• Mrs Lammle was proceeding with every reassuring wile, when the head of that young lady suddenly went back against the wall again and her eyes closed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I was reading a book to-night, to wile the time away, and the same things came into the print. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The red--(Well then, Polly, the _fair_) hair, the tongue of guile, and brain of wile, are all come down by inheritance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Say it again, you wile, owdacious fellow! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• To wile away the time till your father comes,' he said,--'pray is there much robbing and murdering of seamen about the water-side now? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• All her lies and her schemes, and her selfishness and her wiles, all her wit and genius had come to this bankruptcy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• My child, he said reprovingly, do not make ill blood between these two men by your woman's wiles. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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