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Which mythological figure beguiled sailors with song?

beguile

[bih-gahyl] / bɪˈgaɪl /




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Edward Brooke-Hitching supplies all sorts of tidbits to beguile readers ages 7-9 in this entertaining compendium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

For now, here are the titles that beguile us going in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

English Heritage is not alone in its efforts to beguile visitors with historical treats.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023

“Do you think you can beguile this conclave with your baubles and vanity? We are not so base as to be dazzled by shiny things.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

In “Autumn Meeting,” a Budapest seductress beguiles an out-of-work jockey with romantic tales of love spurned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.

From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022

Here, Cooke, a Manchester native, convincingly turns Irish as the spirited young woman who beguiles most everyone but always seems to have a hidden agenda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2021

This movie — the story of how she returns home — beguiles and fascinates on several levels.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020

In the female form she beguiles a young student of philosophy, Lycius, lives with him in a splendid palace, and finally celebrates their marriage-feast.

From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti

Yet this strangely compelling work has simultaneously beguiled and baffled art historians for generations, starting with the odd moment that Pontormo chose to depict in his innovative way, isolated from the rest of the narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Monkey’s capture comes about by his being believably beguiled by the sound of the lute-like pipa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

When people suggest that California is not really America, we might wonder whether they have been beguiled by some mythic vision of America.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

Their 8-year-old daughter, Princess Charlotte, beguiled onlookers in an ivory silk crepe dress by the designer Alexander McQueen — a miniature version of the dress worn by her mother.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2023

She rushed out to the delicatessen store and beguiled the man into letting her open a charge account until Saturday payday.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

But they’ve learned the hard way that it won’t work to come at him directly, because he ends up dominating interviews and beguiling those who, like Watters, love his commanding and clever style.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

This, and a range of other publications hailing Asia’s economic “miracle” led Edwards to conclude “too many people believed the beguiling narrative” and as a consequence, “lent these economies cheap, abundant capital which was misallocated.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Steinem usually attributed her effectiveness as a spokesperson to her sense of humor, but understood that her beguiling good looks also played a role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

It is a bird of spectacular appearance and beguiling habits, building its floating nests in shallow lakes of western United States and Canada.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson


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