Both Uses of
cajole
in
Middlemarch
- We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire; and poor old Featherstone, who laughed much at the way in which others cajoled themselves, did not escape the fellowship of illusion.†
Chpt 4 *
- "Come, Josh," he said, in a cajoling tone, "give us a spoonful of brandy, and a sovereign to pay the way back, and I'll go.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(cajole) gently persuade