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  • Although we lived outside the district, Mom begged and cajoled the principal until he allowed us to enroll.†   (source)
  • The B-24's wheels had no steering, so the pilot had to cajole the bomber along by feeding power to one side's engines, then the other, and working back and forth on the left and right brakes, one of which was usually much more sensitive than the other.†   (source)
  • Edgar could close his eyes and hear her cajoling them in a low, even voice, see her crazywalk the little ones, ask for retrieves of the others, always testing, proofing, asking what it meant and didn't mean to stay, watch, recall, follow.†   (source)
  • But the expression: Odysseus' gaze was always reaching out, cajoling.†   (source)
  • No amount of cajoling would change her mind.†   (source)
  • The delicate art of cajoler was a lost skill in modern law enforcement, one that required exceptional poise under pressure.†   (source)
  • After a lot of hustling and cajoling, Kate got Constance moving, then quick-stepped it to the cafeteria with the smaller girl riding piggyback.†   (source)
  • His speech was a soft, cajoling drawl.†   (source)
  • In late 1943, Schindler cajoled and bribed Goeth and other SS leaders for permission to build a sub-camp on the property adjacent to Emalia.†   (source)
  • I tried to make my voice cajoling, as inoffensive as possible.†   (source)
  • Grandmother did not see fit to do a damn thing, but she enjoyed Dan's efforts to cajole her out of her veteran, antisocial cantankerousness, and she agreed to attend the play; as for the cast party, she would see how she felt after the performance.†   (source)
  • A one-sided cajoling and coaching of the young, a one-way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never be signed.†   (source)
  • …was following my dad into our suspiciously dark living room as he muttered things like "What a shame we didn't plan anything for your birthday" and "Oh well, there's always next year," when all the lights flooded on to reveal streamers, balloons, and a motley assortment of aunts, uncles, cousins I rarely spoke to—anyone my mother could cajole into attending—and Ricky, whom I was surprised to see lingering near the punch bowl, looking comically out of place in a studded leather jacket.†   (source)
  • What was required of Ratwatte was that he communicate, and communicate not just in the sense of issuing commands but also in the sense of encouraging and cajoling and calming and negotiating and sharing information in the clearest and most transparent manner possible.†   (source)
  • Jon persuaded some, cajoled some, shamed the others, made threats where threats were required.†   (source)
  • …his lawyer, his mother or a good book; it was Mr. Prosser's accepted role to tackle Arthur with the occasional new ploy such as the For the Public Good talk, or the March of Progress talk, the They Knocked My House Down Once You Know, Never Looked Back talk and various other cajoleries and threats; and it was the bulldozer drivers' accepted role to sit around drinking coffee and experimenting with union regulations to see how they could turn the situation to their financial advantage.†   (source)
  • His voice both sad and cajoling.†   (source)
  • On this occasion he buttonholed me to talk about the guided Everest expedition he was planning: I should come along, he cajoled, and write an article about the climb for Outside.†   (source)
  • Gracie is in summer school—she's only in first grade and they're already talking about holding her back—and every night I pull her onto my lap and help her sludge through her work, whispering in her ear, begging her to speak, to focus, to listen, cajoling her, finally, into writing at least half of the answers down in her workbook.†   (source)
  • Enrique cajoles.†   (source)
  • It was as if that thought had come from outside, insectile, buzzing, softly cajoling.†   (source)
  • Despite the young men's cajoling, he refused to go with them.†   (source)
  • I just sat there, while Adah got bird lessons and Leah cajoled the shy little Fowles children to come in off the porch and sit on the floor with her and Ruth May and read comic books with them.†   (source)
  • Cajole or coerce a few of these poor devils into a medical exam.†   (source)
  • Right after we finished the PT class and staggered to our feet, Instructor Reno, god of all the mercies, would send us on a four-mile run through the soft sand, running alongside us at half speed (for him), exhorting us to greater effort, barking instructions, harassing, cajoling.†   (source)
  • She cajoled Francis into her car, and they left for San Francisco.†   (source)
  • She'd pestered, cajoled, and sometimes yelled at Dad to get a license, but he'd insisted that he preferred pedal power.†   (source)
  • When she was questioned by the Principal about her behavior (cajoled, caned, starved), she eventually admitted that she had done it to find out whether breasts hurt.†   (source)
  • Come, Doctor," says the voice, cajoling now.†   (source)
  • Waterside, merchants wheedled and cajoled customers, hoping to lure them into their shops.†   (source)
  • People are all around, hectoring, cajoling, arguing with one another and getting a little too close for Nathaniel's comfort, just as he feared.†   (source)
  • I begged her, cajoled her to return, hearing nothing but peeved silence on the other end.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino could barely see him amid the leaves, and he tried to cajole him in Spanish and French and even in Latin, and the parrot responded in the same languages and with the same emphasis and timbre in his voice, but he did not move from his treetop.†   (source)
  • I pushed and prodded, coaxed and cajoled; he wasn't budging.†   (source)
  • The cajoling smile of the dance is gone.†   (source)
  • I was asked, cajoled, then ordered to care for my room.†   (source)
  • Serena begged and cajoled nonstop for three weeks.†   (source)
  • "Come on," Marcia cajoled.†   (source)
  • Then, out of hiding, leapt his other faces, the crafty, cajoling face of desire, the remote face of desire achieved.†   (source)
  • And he nagged and cajoled, and to please him, Eugenides agreed to try.†   (source)
  • A born organizer, Filitov learned to run roughshod over factory bosses to streamline production, and he cajoled design engineers to make the small but often crucial changes in their products that would save crews and win battles.†   (source)
  • She cajoled and encouraged.†   (source)
  • He was constantly cajoled and offered bribes by reporters hoping he could arrange their passage into Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • He moved in close, suggested poses, cajoled the boys into self-conscious grins with his patter.†   (source)
  • I hear him cajole her as I get closer.†   (source)
  • In seven canonical words, she exhorts, cajoles, commands someone—herself? me?†   (source)
  • She spoke to him in the same cajoling tones she used to address her cats, and was incapable of telling whether he was tired, sad, euphoric, or eager to make love.†   (source)
  • Few women anywhere could resist such wily cajolery, and prostitutes would spring to their feet eagerly and hurl themselves into whatever fantastic poses he requested for them.†   (source)
  • They had to watch and wait and conspire and cajole, protecting and securing their investments.†   (source)
  • Ghosh asked questions left and right, cajoling Stone into talking, instructing, even reminiscing.†   (source)
  • "Listen, Ari," I said, trying for a cajoling tone.†   (source)
  • But I insisted, explained, cajoled, raised my voice, gestured with my hands, quoted whatever proof texts I could remember from the grammar book, and finally he accepted my explanations.†   (source)
  • He had been released on a bond arranged by Jake and others, and he had been cajoled south by his pal Lucien.†   (source)
  • "Just try," Angel cajoled.†   (source)
  • When Eve saidconfidential, no amount of cajoling, pleading or whining could budge her an inch.†   (source)
  • Across the street, the liquor store is open, a magnet to the wiry man in the sagging tan suit cajoling people for spare change.†   (source)
  • Max wondered how Rolf had managed to cajole the proud shedu into serving as a billboard.†   (source)
  • It took me a year of begging, cajoling, and more begging to get him to agree to meet with me.†   (source)
  • No amount of wheedling, bribery, cajoling had moved her cousin one inch.†   (source)
  • I thought we should wait for the delivery, in case the driver was unsure of what to do, but she tugged at my hand and cajoled and even pecked me on the cheek, and soon enough I agreed.†   (source)
  • Low-ranking officers inspected, cajoled, and firmed them up in preparation for two things.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she thought she had become nothing but a voice speaking in the darkness, cajoling, urging, threatening.†   (source)
  • Lonesome didn't try to ease the situation the way most fathers would have—answering on his child's behalf or cajoling him into showing some manners.†   (source)
  • Chaz announces he's going to see if he can't rescue Luke from the clutches of his mother and Mrs. Thibodaux and cajole him into having a nightcap.†   (source)
  • The night after his aborted kidnapping attempt on the Soldiers' Home road four weeks earlier, Booth even lounged on Matthews's bed in a small boardinghouse across from Ford's Theatre, trying to cajole the fellow actor to join him.†   (source)
  • " He held up Alvin's fourth arrowhead, the one he cajoled out of the flint with his fingers.†   (source)
  • His voice seems to be an amorous melodic murmur, cajoling, politely but outrageously flirtatious, irresistible and (to her utter distress now) wickedly exciting.†   (source)
  • I teased and cajoled them and expected them to fire back, to take no crap from me, just as I took no crap from them.†   (source)
  • They came across the ocean from England and Scotland or over from Holland and up from Pennsylvania, and they cajoled the Indians, sometimes shot them, took the woods and the sloping meadowland and made an Eden out of it--and then moved on.†   (source)
  • But he went bobbing on to another tree while he was cajoling, bright as a lantern that swayed in a wind.†   (source)
  • Agnes Pulvermacher had put it over almost single-handed, in the face of kidding and resistancetraining callers, training dancers, humming tunes to Caroline, cajoling Jimmy to carve and shrink a jungle drum.†   (source)
  • I got to be the bad cop and lay down the law.  "Angel," I began cajolingly. "We can't always..."   (source)
    cajolingly = in a gently persuading manner
  • ...late-night hours cajoling Hunter to please, please go back to sleep.   (source)
    cajoling = gently persuading
  • Archie pressed on, softening his voice, cajoling, leading him on.   (source)
  • It had taken quite a bit of cajoling to cool Harvey down, especially after he threw in the incident in Miles's car as well.   (source)
    cajoling = gentle persuasion
  • "Don't you see that if you have no relations with people it's easier to be honest with them?" she inquired. "That's what I meant. One needn't cajole them; one's under no obligation to them."   (source)
  • "You do not have to cajole me as if I were a baby," she told him.†   (source)
  • She beamed, she coddled, she cajoled and teased.†   (source)
  • Thousands of feet below, his friends stepped up their efforts to cajole him to start down.†   (source)
  • For several minutes I stood there, calling and cajoling, but Marley wouldn't budge.†   (source)
  • Despite the young men's cajoling, he refused to go with them.†   (source)
  • He also didn't argue or wheedle or cajole or ratchet the charm way up.†   (source)
  • Kim who must have somehow managed to cajole her mother into driving downtown.†   (source)
  • Saphira and Nasuada's cajoling only made Eragon more reluctant to agree.†   (source)
  • ' Flustered, flushed, he swore he didn't care, pouted and pleaded and cajoled.†   (source)
  • Barely sleeping the past week or so, and no amount of cajoling or arguing changes it.†   (source)
  • He cajoled the children, diverted them, a master of that kind of thing, a superb actor.†   (source)
  • Was that just some Texas boasting?" cajoled the one who had presented the challenge.†   (source)
  • 'Now, please let me explain something to you,' he cajoled in a mature, reasoning, earnest voice.†   (source)
  • She, threatening, cajoling, admonishing them: "Go free or die."†   (source)
  • Mocking, goading, cajoling and looking for trouble.†   (source)
  • Especially if someone could be cajoled into making a vat of soup.†   (source)
  • I'm trying desperately to cajole him into leaving the area around the tunnel and spending his nights here at Lamp, which sits in the middle of one of the saddest blocks in the entire city of four million people.†   (source)
  • Mr. Fish had no children but he enjoyed throwing and kicking a football, and on those blue-sky, fall afternoons, he cajoled Owen and me to play football with him; Owen and I didn't care for the sport—except for those times when we could include Sagamore in the game.†   (source)
  • She cajoled him into watching TV with her, or trying something new for dinner that she brought from Des Moines, or even going for a walk.†   (source)
  • I visit them daily in their spacious glass dishes, and like any good mother I cajole, I celebrate when they reproduce, and I take special note when they behave oddly.†   (source)
  • Each lord had a right to speak, and speak they did …. and shout, and curse, and reason, and cajole, and jest, and bargain, and slam tankards on the table, and threaten, and walk out, and return sullen or smiling.†   (source)
  • From her silken dais, Serena would cajole Luther to fix her a drink, look for her stockings, answer the door, get some ice, hand her a comb, fluff up her pillows, massage her ankles.†   (source)
  • It didn't take much cajoling before they revealed that the cases of Seithr oil are always sent from the warehouse to the palace.†   (source)
  • I assumed that come opening day, she'd be off in Lucy Jo's Dart to Davy Elementary, even if we had to cajole her.†   (source)
  • Bellagrog Shrope was a massive specimen, some two hundred pounds of globular flesh cajoled into a dress intended for a smaller being.†   (source)
  • Next, she had called the manager, and after a bit of cajoling, he'd faxed over the rental application.†   (source)
  • With a bit more cajoling, Josh and Kristen finished their lunches, while Alex went to the dock to retrieve the fishing pole.†   (source)
  • I anticipated her scheduled study breaks and tried to cajole her into making them longer, making them arc over a whole evening in my room, where, in laughing with her, I wouldn't have to think about anything outside.†   (source)
  • The woman was pointing out the flowers and the leaves of the bushes in order to cajole the girl forward towards the building.†   (source)
  • He did not cajole or extol.†   (source)
  • With his good looks and winning smile, he has cajoled many a businessman and every woman into surrendering whatever it is they hold dearest, all the while believing John Rimbauer was doing them a favor.†   (source)
  • Bloodshot, calculating eyes broadcast the man's thoughts as if they had been spoken aloud: Here was a tall, well-armed youth who must be cajoled, not conquered.†   (source)
  • Cajoling, Come on.†   (source)
  • Severo and Nivea attempted to make her speak with household remedies, threatening and cajoling and even refusing to let her eat, to see if hunger would force her to open her mouth to ask for food, but that, too, was to no avail.†   (source)
  • "Come on," Marcia cajoled.†   (source)
  • Can't get fresher," he said cajolingly.†   (source)
  • She cajoles me like a five-year old, which is exactly what I'm acting like right now I blame blood loss.†   (source)
  • In particular I recalled how Madame Wang had stayed at Snow Flower's side, offering comfort, quietly cajoling.†   (source)
  • The teacher, a man named Stefan Zaorski, had been a flutist with the Warsaw Symphony, and Sophie had had to cajole and flatter and plead in order to get him to take Eva as a student; aside from the money that Sophie could pay, a pitiful amount, there was little incentive for a dispossessed musician to give lessons in that stark and cheerless city—there were better (although mainly illegal) ways to earn one's bread.†   (source)
  • …see how over each ribbon of field were moving men and girls, on foot and mounted on mules, with hats set on their heads and bright with tall hoes and forks as if they carried streamers on them and were going to some place on a journey-and how as if at a signal now and then they would all start at once shouting, hollering, cajoling, calling and answering back, running, being leaped on and breaking away, flinging to earth with a shout and lying motionless in the trance of twelve o'clock.†   (source)
  • Barbara talked to them and other people who came to the camp to help talked, cajoled, and pleaded with them to moisten a toe or two in the water.†   (source)
  • "Please," she cajoles, leaning forward over Nathan, pouting her prettiest, "please, sir, do understand about his mother.†   (source)
  • I drove to Beaufort, talked with Mr. Samuels, begged for charity and cooperation, got the boat after only a little bit of cajolery, then went to see Bernie.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown did not realize it at the time, but her inquisition ended before it started, and no amount of cajolery or intimidation on her part would wreak a confession or a betrayal from the brotherhood she now interrogated.†   (source)
  • It was the aunt who persuaded or cajoled Mr Coldfield into the big wedding.†   (source)
  • The aunt had even forced or nagged (not cajoled: that would not have done it) Mr Coldfield into allowing Ellen to wear powder on her face for the occasion.†   (source)
  • To have taken on himself the leadership of some scores of mixed civilians, including women and children, to have sheltered them all in a small consulate during a hot-blooded revolution led by anti-foreign agitators, and to have bullied and cajoled the revolutionaries into permitting a wholesale evacuation by air, it was not, he felt, a bad achievement.†   (source)
  • Better than the shelves and the counters filled with longfamiliar objects bought, not because the owner desired them or admired them, could take any pleasure in the owning of them, but in order to cajole or trick other men into buying them at a profit; and who must now and then contemplate both the objects which had not yet sold and the men who could buy them but had not yet done so, with anger and maybe outrage and maybe despair too.†   (source)
  • But most of the time she was riding about the town, making the rounds of builders, contractors and carpenters, even calling on strangers she had heard might build at future dates, cajoling them into promises of buying from her and her only.†   (source)
  • 'There, there,' the priest said cajolingly; he made little enticing movements in the air and the animal stared back.†   (source)
  • Home, he would be cajoled up the tall veranda stairs, enticed into his bed; or, resisting all compulsion, he would seek out his wife, shut usually in her room, howling taunts at her, and accusations of unchastity, since there festered in him dark suspicion, fruit of his age, his wasting energy.†   (source)
  • She spoke in that fainting whisper, her tone light, inconsequential, like that of one speaking to an unpredictable child or a maniac: soothing, cajoling: "You wait, now.†   (source)
  • …voice murmuring, clear enough and full enough yet hardly reaching hint 'Charles:. and he No, Miss Sutpen:. and she again, still without moving, not stirring so much as a muscle, as if she stood on the outside of the thicket into which she had cajoled the animal which she knew was watching her though she could not see it, not quite cringing, not in any terror or even alarm but in that restive light incorrigibility of the free which would leave not even a print on the earth which lightly…†   (source)
  • If he was mad, it was only his compelling dream which was insane and not his methods: it was no madman who bargained and cajoled hard manual labor out of men like Jones; it was no madman who kept clear of the sheets and hoods and night-galloping horses with which men who were once his acquaintances even if not his friends discharged the canker suppuration of defeat; it was no madman's plan or tactics which gained him at the lowest possible price the sole woman available to wive him,…†   (source)
  • He heard his voice being flowery, and he hated it and knew that Leora was not cajoled.†   (source)
  • He knew how she cajoled him into getting things for her and then would not even let him kiss her.†   (source)
  • Inchcape Jones was courageous enough, but he could not cajole people.†   (source)
  • Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too much, charm each other too much?†   (source)
  • That was generally a successful means of cajoling the old gentleman.†   (source)
  • From Solomon downwards, have not wiser men than he been cajoled and befooled by women?†   (source)
  • There were times when I beat and kicked him madly, times when I cajoled and persuaded him, and once I tried to bribe him with the last bottle of burgundy, for there was a rain-water pump from which I could get water.†   (source)
  • 'You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.'†   (source)
  • He thought of telephoning about leases, of cajoling men he hated, of making business calls and waiting in dirty anterooms—hat on knee, yawning at fly-specked calendars, being polite to office-boys.†   (source)
  • Her tone towards him to-night was uniformly soothing and cajoling; and whenever he said "I don't care what happens to me," a thing he did continually, she replied, "But I do very much!"†   (source)
  • "I won't be cajoled!†   (source)
  • And to cap it all, when Mercedes, with tears in her pretty eyes and a quaver in her throat, could not cajole him into giving the dogs still more, she stole from the fish-sacks and fed them slyly.†   (source)
  • A man who will never more be trapped—whom no blandishments will cajole, whom no threats will frighten; who from tonight on will move forward, and not backward, who will study and understand, who will gird on his sword and take his place in the army of his comrades and brothers.†   (source)
  • He stooped to the evil of hypocrisy with others, sceptical of their innocence which he could cajole so easily.†   (source)
  • In this connection her mind suddenly turned and began to consider how she could flatter and cajole Mr. Rubenstein into letting her have the coat on easy terms.†   (source)
  • It is true, she was looking very charming herself, and Stephen was paying her the utmost attention on this public occasion; jealously buying up the articles he had seen under her fingers in the process of making, and gayly helping her to cajole the male customers into the purchase of the most effeminate futilities.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • But there is a patent defence at hand,—the defence of deception and flattery, of cajoling and lying.†   (source)
  • The game of the masters of politics was to cajole or force the public to pay the expense of a luxurious life and exciting amusement for a few cliques of ambitious persons: and the pretence of serious difference of opinion, belied by every action of their lives, was quite good enough for that.†   (source)
  • In this cottage he occupied a couple of rooms, Jopp, whom Henchard had employed, abused, cajoled, and dismissed by turns, being the householder.†   (source)
  • By cajoling Legree, and taking advantage of a good-natured interval, Cassy had got him to take her with him to the neighboring town, which was situated directly on the Red river.†   (source)
  • That cottage and the money hidden within it had been in his mind continually during his walk, and he had been imagining ways of cajoling and tempting the weaver to part with the immediate possession of his money for the sake of receiving interest.†   (source)
  • …parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces—though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • Let him live outside his income, or shirk the resolute honest work that brings wages, and he will presently find himself dreaming of a possible benefactor, a possible simpleton who may be cajoled into using his interest, a possible state of mind in some possible person not yet forthcoming.†   (source)
  • No poor, simple, virtuous body was ever cajoled by the attentions of an electioneering politician with more ease than Aunt Chloe was won over by Master Sam's suavities; and if he had been the prodigal son himself, he could not have been overwhelmed with more maternal bountifulness; and he soon found himself seated, happy and glorious, over a large tin pan, containing a sort of olla podrida of all that had appeared on the table for two or three days past.†   (source)
  • Certain stray locks of decidedly curly hair, too, had escaped here and there, and had to be coaxed and cajoled into their place again; and then the new comer, who might have been five-and-twenty, turned from the small looking-glass, before which she had been making these arrangements, and looked well pleased,—as most people who looked at her might have been,—for she was decidedly a wholesome, whole-hearted, chirruping little woman, as ever gladdened man's heart withal.†   (source)
  • It is very likely that this worthy couple never absolutely conspired and agreed together in so many words: the one to cajole the young gentleman, whilst the other won his money at cards: but they understood each other perfectly well, and Rawdon let Osborne come and go with entire good humour.†   (source)
  • Sick-bed homilies and pious reflections are, to be sure, out of place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the public into a sermon, when it is only a comedy that the reader pays his money to witness.†   (source)
  • We don't know how much they hide from us: how watchful they are when they seem most artless and confidential: how often those frank smiles which they wear so easily, are traps to cajole or elude or disarm—I don't mean in your mere coquettes, but your domestic models, and paragons of female virtue.†   (source)
  • No, William thought again and again, "It was myself I deluded and persisted in cajoling; had she been worthy of the love I gave her, she would have returned it long ago.†   (source)
  • In describing this Siren, singing and smiling, coaxing and cajoling, the author, with modest pride, asks his readers all round, has he once forgotten the laws of politeness, and showed the monster's hideous tail above water?†   (source)
  • He coaxed, wheedled, cajoled, and complimented Jos Sedley with a perseverance and cordiality of which he was not aware himself, very likely; but some men who have unmarried sisters or daughters even, may remember how uncommonly agreeable gentlemen are to the male relations when they are courting the females; and perhaps this rogue of a Dobbin was urged by a similar hypocrisy.†   (source)
  • Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.†   (source)
  • So jolly," she repeated and smiled, for all the puzzled anxiety in her eyes, with what was meant to be an inviting and voluptuous cajolery.†   (source)
  • He would be gone from dawn until dark, he and Jones and another man or two that he had got from somewhere and paid with something, perhaps the same coin in which he had paid that foreign architect—cajolery, promise, threat, and at last force.†   (source)
  • This is what his cajolery has brought us to!†   (source)
  • "Oh," said Albert with all the cajolery of which he was capable.†   (source)
  • She turned and looked up into his eyes to see what if any effect this baby-worded cajolery was having, and Clyde did his best to brighten, of course.†   (source)
  • Then d'Artagnan ceased knocking, and prayed with an accent so full of anxiety and promises, terror and cajolery, that his voice was of a nature to reassure the most fearful.†   (source)
  • "I think you—are conceited, nevertheless," said Bathsheba, looking askance at a reed she was fitfully pulling with one hand, having lately grown feverish under the soldier's system of procedure—not because the nature of his cajolery was entirely unperceived, but because its vigour was overwhelming.†   (source)
  • Perhaps in no minor point does woman astonish her helpmate more than in the strange power she possesses of believing cajoleries that she knows to be false—except, indeed, in that of being utterly sceptical on strictures that she knows to be true.†   (source)
  • Dunstan felt as if there must be a little frightening added to the cajolery, for his own arithmetical convictions were not clear enough to afford him any forcible demonstration as to the advantages of interest; and as for security, he regarded it vaguely as a means of cheating a man by making him believe that he would be paid.†   (source)
  • He was so honest, that her arts and cajoleries did not affect him, and he shrank from her with instinctive repulsion.†   (source)
  • they couldn't cajole him into the dining room   (source)
    cajole = gently persuade
  • Mind that, I say; everybody would not have cajoled this out of her, mind that.†   (source)
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