It is, to a great extent, the strong-willed resistance of a highly impressionable puritan against the enticements of beauty,-their distracting and disquieting effect, and principally their power of sensuous suggestion.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
Every guide in Long Lake township talked about Lost Pond and repeated the legends, which through the passing years had probably lost none of their original enticements.
"Lost Pond"
Henry Abbott
He looked in spite of himself, unable to withdraw himself from the outrages imposed by these violations, but the body was still and remained calm, while the soul revolted with a groan; the temptation was then of no effect; but if the tricks only succeeded in suggesting to him disgust and horror, they made him suffer beyond measure, while they delayed; all the days of his shameful existence came to the surface, all these enticements to greedy desires crucified him.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans