They're seen only across, as it were, and beyond-in strange places and on high places, the top of towers, the roof of houses, the outside of windows, the further edge of pools; but there's a deep design, on either side, to shorten the distance and overcome the obstacle; and the success of the tempters is only a question of time.
"The Turn of the Screw"
Henry James
For to thee were given man's two most persuasive tempters, physical and moral,-Health and Power!
"Paul Clifford, Volume 7."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Be calm and cool in the face of a foe-remonstrate with a wrong-doer- fly from tempters; but you cannot be too eager and violent in attacking temptation immediately it presents itself.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston