Pronunciation of the English word wiles.
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1. | Fermat's Last Theorem was finally proven by English mathematician Andrew Wiles in 1994. | |
2. | The rustic youth was as yet ignorant of the wiles of love. | |
3. | She used her feminine wiles to seduce him. | |
4. | Mary used her feminine wiles to hoodwink Tom into revealing state secrets. | |
5. | ... beholds Troy's navy scattered far and nigh, / and by the waves and ruining heaven oppressed / the Trojan crews. Nor failed he to espy / his sister's wiles and hatred. | |
6. | "Tell me," she says, "thy wanderings; stranger, come, / thy friends' mishaps and Danaan wiles proclaim; / for seven long summers now have seen thee roam / o'er every land and sea, far from thy native home." | |
7. | And now the heaven rolled round. From ocean rushed / the Night, and wrapt in shadow earth and air / and Myrmidonian wiles. In silence hushed, / the Trojans through the city here and there, / outstretched in sleep, their weary limbs repair. | |
8. | Then, then I see that Hector's words were right, / and all the Danaan wiles are naked to the light. |