lead astray
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Is he a once-legitimate conservative journalist lead astray by the sensational nature of TV punditry?
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2019
Hence the Erinnyes reply to the strange notions of Apollo: Thou didst lead astray Those primal goddesses with draughts of wine, O'erturning ordinance.
From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel
See! with what madd’ning force they sway The human breast and lead astray, Down the steep, broad, destructive way, The giddy throng; Till grisly death sweeps all away The fiends among!
From Cottage Poems by Brontë, Patrick
Our very virtues might hasten us to perdition: both higher and lower aims, if ill-adjusted to form a complete life, may lead astray.
From Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
Him whom thou directest none can lead astray, and him whom thou bewilderest none can direct upon his way.
From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Ross, James