Coax

Examples

• Now,' says I, 'why can't you kinder coax 'em up, and speak 'em fair? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She is not obliged to say what she is going to do with it; she is sharp enough; she could manage to coax it out of him, if she chose. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Of these she contrived to coax three or four to walk with her to my house; but, alas! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Come Eliza, why do you try to coax him, when you know that he has got to be kept away from you? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Once--but once--she noticed the desertion, and holding out her white hand, and speaking softly, tried to coax him back. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Don't think to coax me between you. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Shall we coax our old intriguer to tell us when he saw him last? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She might have coaxed me to say no if I had been the hardest-hearted duenna in the world. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So I coax it down again, as the fisherman coaxed the genie. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Soon after dinner Caroline coaxed her governess-cousin upstairs to dress. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She talked to Elizabeth again and again; coaxed and threatened her by turns. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Esther nursed them, coaxed them to sleep, washed and dressed them, told them stories, kept them quiet, bought them keepsakes--My dear girl! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He cringed and coaxed Rawdon at the club. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She had pretty, coaxing ways, as you might say, and I thought there was no harm in letting her just put her head through the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Neither threats nor coaxing could avail: he could not count on any persistent fear nor on any promise. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She had almost got a second supply out of me the other day; with her coaxing ways. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Of course he could not feel real anger on his side: the match was too unequal in every way; he tried soothing and coaxing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I had gone up to ask him about you, and he was very offensive; accused me of coaxing you away from the service of the firm, and that sort of thing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The discourse seemed well adapted to their capacities, and was delivered in a pleasing, familiar manner, coaxing them, as it were, to be good. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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