Coaxing

Examples

• 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.
• I tried coaxing, and coaxing failed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Caliphronas, with that wonderful power he had over all animals, advanced, nude as he was, up the bank, and called to the horse in a coaxing tone. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But he was not a bad master--he had a monstrous civil tongue of his own, and a jolly, easy, coaxing way with him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He had carefully withheld all promise to do so; but would he be proof against her coaxing and argument? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Cajolements, coaxings, smiles, tears could not satisfy Sir Pitt, and he had something very like a quarrel with his once admired Becky. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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