Don't be seduced by curves, always read the results ----------------------- Google Books report [from **1910 to 1935**][1] a whole series of books whose titles contain the word *alluring*: *Salads **Alluring** and New:...* (1926); *The Sport **Alluring*** (1917); *The Sport **Alluring**: Trap Shooting* (1911); ***Alluring** Arizona* (1929); *Labrador, Newfoundland, Gulf of St. Lawrence Cruises to the **Alluring** North - Lands that are Different* (1935); *The County of Labelle Perhaps the Most Beautiful of the **Alluring** Laurentians Invites Tourists and Sportsmen Especially the Lovers of Hunting and Fishing to Enjoy Its Scenery, Its Mountains, Its Lakes, Its Rivers and Its Forests* (1923); ***Alluring** Rockport: An Unspoiled New England Town on Cape ...*; ***Alluring** Albany: Handbook for the Port and Back Country* (1912); *By **Alluring** Paths* (1932); *Margaret Reynolds, Collector: **Alluring** Arkansas: Scrapbook* (1920); *Riverside: The City Beautiful : a Brief Description of Some of the **Alluring** Beauties and Scenic Gems which Confront the Visitor at the Metropolis of Southern California's World Famed Orange Belt* (1913). - The expression *[more alluring][2]* gets 66 hits - The expression *[alluring pictures][3]* gets 32 results *Apparently*, from the Ngrams posted by the OP, the term "alluring" hit a peak in the 1920s, while the term *remarkable* has witnessed a steady decrease in usage. I compared the two terms on the same [Google Ngram][4], with the same criteria fixed by the OP, i.e. 1800 -2008 with a smoothing of 7, and obtained this result: **alluring** (blue line) and ***remarkable*** (red line). [![enter image description here][5]][5] If you narrow the search between 1900 and 1960 the following [Ngram graph][6] is reproduced [![enter image description here][7]][7] The mountain peak that was so impressive in the Ngram posted by the OP is barely a mound, on the contrary it looks quite flat on this chart. Google Ngrams is a great tool but it needs to be used wisely, and judiciously. Please see the following meta posts for more information on the the advantages and drawbacks of using Google Ngrams. - http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/4284/how-accurate-is-google-ngram-as-a-language-reference-source - http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/2469/should-we-allow-google-ngrams-to-be-presented-as-statistical-evidence-without-qu [1]: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22alluring%22&biw=1366&bih=677&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A01%2F01%2F1910%2Ccd_max%3A31%2F12%2F1935&tbm=bks [2]: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22alluring%22&biw=1366&bih=677&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A01%2F01%2F1910%2Ccd_max%3A31%2F12%2F1935&tbm=bks#tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:01%2F01%2F1910%2Ccd_max:31%2F12%2F1935&tbm=bks&q=%22more+alluring%22 [3]: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22alluring%22&biw=1366&bih=677&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A01%2F01%2F1910%2Ccd_max%3A31%2F12%2F1935&tbm=bks#tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:01%2F01%2F1910%2Ccd_max:31%2F12%2F1935&tbm=bks&q=%22alluring%20pictures%22 [4]: http://1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=7&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Calluring%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cremarkable%3B%2Cc0 [5]: https://i.sstatic.net/DjZuD.png [6]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=alluring%2Cremarkable&year_start=1900&year_end=1960&corpus=15&smoothing=7&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Calluring%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cremarkable%3B%2Cc0 [7]: https://i.sstatic.net/8WI8O.png