A publisher, like another personage, has many shapes of beguilement, and it is not unlikely that this flattering deference is but another wile to entrap the unwary.
"Prose Fancies"
Richard Le Gallienne
Never for another's dictation or beguilement.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
It would have been easy to get into a sad, wild tangle about how much I might betray; but the real account, I feel, of the hours of peace that I could still enjoy was that the immediate charm of my companions was a beguilement still effective even under the shadow of the possibility that it was studied.
"The Turn of the Screw"
Henry James