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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

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

The brothers’ singular achievement is that four decades out, their narratives continue to beguile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 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

It trails across the ground, flutters in the air and beguiles you, just like this film.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

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

With such stories as these Petersen beguiles the time; I never tire of listening to them, and now amuse myself in jotting scraps of them down.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock

This was almost hilariously tawdry, but MI5 was beguiled by Lyalin’s many disclosures about KGB operatives in London, made as a way to prove that he was not faking his defection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

In the 18th century, the 13th duchess beguiled the painter Goya, who portrayed her several times.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

Known for possessing a quirky personality and, at times, an over-the-top perspective, Harbaugh’s history is that of a coach beloved by his players and beguiled by his critics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

It didn’t take long before the collecting passion had seized hold in earnest and I found myself beguiled by the decorative arts of yesteryear.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 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

Neat as some of his epigrams are, his characters talk a little too much, and the scenes in which Wilde dazzles some beguiling new historical personage with his repartee are a little too overextended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

You can hear clear and compelling evidence of this on the opening track, “Jungle Roux,” in the beguiling falsetto on “Duvateen,” or the fascinating vocal treatment on “My Lover.”

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Instead, you get restored or re-created buildings with plaques and interpretation boards, so it doesn’t have much, or indeed any, real life, but it still has a certain beguiling, polished prettiness.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson