Crossword-Solution: TEMPTRESSES 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Charles believed in temptresses, who are indeed the strong man’s necessary complement, and having no sense of humour, he could not purge himself of the thought by a smile.

But no! Why should I blind myself? Time and the charms he steals from women are far more powerful than twenty such little temptresses.

Odysseus filled the ears of his crews with wax, bidding them to tie him to the mast of his ship and to row hard past the temptresses in spite of his strugglings.

Beauty, indeed, was but too often a snare for the unwary--temptresses, he had been told, were usually beautiful persons.

With all their warnings they had not warned him, these grave men, these instructors of youth, who had never known any world except their little world of books, who ranged women into two camps, one in which they held a docile Tennysonian place, as chaste adorners of the sacred home, mothers of children, man's property, insipid angel housekeepers of his demure middle age; the other where they were depicted as cheap, vulgar temptresses, on a level with the wine cup and the gambling table.