Persuasions

Examples

• It will cost me several cups of tea, some toast and cake, and an ample measure of remonstrances, expostulations, and persuasions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The writer has his own very strong and definite persuasions, and the reader must bear that in mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I suppose we were all more or less curious; at any rate, when the old man added his persuasions to hers and said, Aye, aye! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As speech developed, men would find they had experiences and persuasions that gave them or seemed to give them power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But as such were Fanny's persuasions, she suffered very much from them, and could never speak of Miss Crawford without pain. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• By dint of a few more gentle assurances and persuasions, Miss Helstone contrived to soothe the agitated lady. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His conferences with his confessor I might guess; the part duty and religion were made to play in the persuasions used, I might conjecture. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Under certain persuasions, from certain quarters, je vous vois d'icisaid he, eagerly subscribing to the sacrifice, passionately arming for the effort. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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