Tempt in example sentence
Let Captain Lawton, or Lieutenant Mason, or Cornet Skipwith, say the word, and who is quicker in the saddle than I?""Well, sargeant, how often is it that ye've boasted to myself that the corps wasn't a bit afeard to face the divil?""No more are we, in battle array, and by daylight; but it's foolhardy and irreverent to tempt Satan, and on such a night as this.