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  • That meanness wasn't enough to dissuade my grandfather.†   (source)
  • Ron seemed determined to give neither his opinion nor his advice; he would not look at Harry, though when Hermione opened her mouth to try dissuading Harry some more, he said in a low voice, 'Give it a rest, OK?†   (source)
  • Mr. Traynor's family and friends had all expressed their opposition to his stated desire to end his life prematurely but given his medical history and previous attempt on his own life (detailed in his attached hospital records), his intellect and strength of character, they were apparently unable to dissuade him, even during an extended six-month period which was negotiated with him specifically for this purpose.†   (source)
  • Evidently, Williams did not want to be dissuaded.†   (source)
  • My parents never would have tried to dissuade them.†   (source)
  • The bishop tried to dissuade him, but Carlo's mind was made up.†   (source)
  • She was not inclined to dissuade her mother from wandering far away from the terrace.†   (source)
  • And yet when Maxine had shopped for the things to put in the basket, at Dean and DeLuca, he'd said nothing to dissuade her.†   (source)
  • Radar never told us anything about his love life, but this did not dissuade us from frequent speculation.†   (source)
  • She couldn't see any way to draw Chencha out of her depression, to dissuade her from the belief that no one would marry her after the violent attack she had suffered at the hands of the bandits.†   (source)
  • If you are so eager to molder beside him, far be it from me to dissuade you, but I would rather not be included in the party, thank you very much.†   (source)
  • Michael got all embarrassed and claimed not to have had anything to do with it, but Mr. G didn't hear him since he had to hurry off and dissuade a group of Goths from embarking upon a demonstration over the unfair exclusion of a table dedicated to Satan worshipers by the event organizers.†   (source)
  • You are not easily dissuaded.†   (source)
  • I consider running into town, trying to find him to dissuade him from any such truth, but I know that would only encourage suspicion.†   (source)
  • Did your father's suicide dissuade you?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Ferris insisted on being aboard for the first ride, despite Gronau's attempts to dissuade her.†   (source)
  • And the Coast Guard, didn't they routinely dissuade people from coming here?†   (source)
  • He tried to dissuade her.†   (source)
  • I've seen him get like this before, when he's writing a new song or is trying to convince me to do something I won't want to do—like go camping with him—and nothing, not a meteorite crashing into the planet, not even a girlfriend in the ICU, can dissuade him.†   (source)
  • "I need to go, too!" cried Fenoglio, perhaps intending to dissuade Meggie from carrying out her plan, but the guard closed the door in his face.†   (source)
  • The foolish girl could not be dissuaded from dressing herself up in the murdered woman's finery, an act which was viewed with horror by the press and public; although if I'd had my wits about me, I would have advanced that very fact as evidence of an innocent and untroubled conscience, or, even better, of lunacy.†   (source)
  • I saw no reason to dissuade them.†   (source)
  • If she wants to believe in a government conspiracy, I don't think I can dissuade her.†   (source)
  • This occurred at the time that Florentino Ariza made his confession to his mother, who dissuaded him from handing Fermina Daza his seventy pages of compliments, so that she continued to wait for the rest of the year.†   (source)
  • I must dissuade you of that.†   (source)
  • But Dick was not to be dissuaded.†   (source)
  • "All to dissuade you bungling mortals from falling into Loki's trap.†   (source)
  • I wasn't about to try and dissuade the Powers-That-Be.†   (source)
  • When I explained I was in town to write about the Fugees and the effects of refugee resettlement on Clarkston, he did his best to dissuade me.†   (source)
  • Never mind that the rest of us had long ago soured on EZ Products: my father was not dissuaded by our cynicism.†   (source)
  • After years spent trying to dissuade me from wasting my time acquiring valueless skills, he had come to my study one night to tell me why the queen of Eddis would consider a marriage proposal from Sounis and why her council, himself included, urged her to accept.†   (source)
  • Neither was work fit for a cowhand, and he was on the verge of demanding his wages and standing up for his rights as a free man--but the Captain's look dissuaded him, and the next morning, when they started the herd east along the Milk, he took the point for the last time.†   (source)
  • Once Nana made up her mind about something, there was no way to dissuade her.†   (source)
  • And though he was wrong in every way about this, after that night nothing could dissuade him.†   (source)
  • My grandmother attempted to dissuade him.†   (source)
  • Some, too, will remember also that Saruman dissuaded us from open deeds against him, and for long we watched him only.†   (source)
  • Aven and Bert tried to dissuade him, but Jack would brook none of their concerns.†   (source)
  • That did not dissuade him from his enterprise.†   (source)
  • On the landing above lived the beautiful rich black-haired Countess and her beautiful, rich black-haired daughter-in-law, both of whom would put out only for Nately, who was too shy to want them, and for Aarfy, who was too stuffy to take them and tried to dissuade them from ever putting out for anyone but their husbands, who had chosen to remain in the north with the family's business interests.†   (source)
  • Green bottle shards poked up from the mortar at the top of the wall to dissuade intruders—robbery and petty theft were rampant in Addis—though the sight of roses lapping over the wall softened this deterrent.†   (source)
  • How could he dissuade Tanis without this admission?†   (source)
  • Maybe for Maggie's father, it was meeting with a bunch of die-hard congregants who wouldn't let the lack of a physical temple dissuade them from prayer.†   (source)
  • I was born the week they won the 1934 World Series and I guess having a daughter didn't dissuade his desire to make me into a baseball player.†   (source)
  • In spite of arriving late last night, she had gotten up early to be with the children-no amount of friendly persuasion on the part of the motherly Mrs. Cooper could dissuade her from doing so.†   (source)
  • La Vauguyon, a plump and personable young man whom Adams genuinely liked, spent the next several hours trying to dissuade him, urging that at the least he wait for an opinion from Vergennes.†   (source)
  • The ship's captain tried to dissuade me from disembarking, talking of Barbary pirates and uncouth Spanish exiles.†   (source)
  • Annie's mother offered to fly in from London but was easily dissuaded.†   (source)
  • Celia tried to dissuade them from entering her house.†   (source)
  • My thoughts scrambled, searching for some way to dissuade him without triggering his stubbornness.†   (source)
  • No one could budge or dissuade her.†   (source)
  • We've done our best to dissuade her,' I evaded, inadequately.†   (source)
  • My dad kept reminding me that Herschel Walker had turned out to be a pretty fair player with only push-ups and sit-ups, but it did little to dissuade me—I really wanted to start on weights.†   (source)
  • But MARTHA will not be dissuaded.†   (source)
  • No wonder Dana had tried to dissuade her from taking the non-scheduled flight to Tampa, then Miami.†   (source)
  • I try to dissuade him from it, but he refuses to speak to me.†   (source)
  • He didn't try to dissuade me, though I knew I could have easily stayed longer.†   (source)
  • But Orfeo was not easy to dissuade.†   (source)
  • Junior had dissuaded her by pointing out the impracticality: any time the tiniest cobweb was spotted trailing from a prism, he would need to send a workman over with a sixteen-foot stepladder.†   (source)
  • "At least bring a guard with you," Stanton pleads, once it becomes obvious that Lincoln will not be dissuaded.†   (source)
  • Yet I feel that you must go to the tower and try to dissuade the wizard.†   (source)
  • Dunwoody had quickly learned that Mr. Barlowe was an enterprising gentleman who generated large streams of revenue and who required an attorney with a creative mind and a deft touch in order to dissuade curious institutional minds from examining his affairs too closely.†   (source)
  • I felt I could not dissuade her, even though her speech already had a glutinous, slurred quality.†   (source)
  • Convince him, dissuade him from jokes and tricks, and we'll call the whole thing even.†   (source)
  • Galiullin did his best to dissuade the commissar from his insane idea.†   (source)
  • "You are young," I attempted to dissuade him.†   (source)
  • @kins will see D'Courtney Thursday morning in an effort to dissuade him from whatever he contemplates.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth tried hard to dissuade him from such a scheme, assuring him that Mr. Darcy would consider his addressing him without introduction as an impertinent freedom, rather than a compliment to his aunt; that it was not in the least necessary there should be any notice on either side; and that if it were, it must belong to Mr. Darcy, the superior in consequence, to begin the acquaintance.   (source)
    dissuade = persuade someone not to do something
  • There was no power that could dissuade her.†   (source)
  • Does the state of airport security dissuade you from flying more often?†   (source)
  • It is far, said Arya,but do not let the distance dissuade you.†   (source)
  • Kathy knew that she couldn't dissuade him.†   (source)
  • Despite my best efforts to dissuade him, the dog liked me.†   (source)
  • He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son.†   (source)
  • Lord Tytos did not attempt to dissuade him.†   (source)
  • He had found the girl who would love him as a father, and no amount of restraint could dissuade him.†   (source)
  • Eragon wanted to ask, but the sorrow in Oromis's eyes dissuaded him.†   (source)
  • But Felicia would not be dissuaded from the orishas She had a true vocation to the supernatural.†   (source)
  • Gaby had a goal, and no doctor or anyone else was going to dissuade her.†   (source)
  • Blanca tried to dissuade him with the best of arguments, but he seemed not to hear her.†   (source)
  • Nathan and I both tried to dissuade him, but without avail.†   (source)
  • We did not try to dissuade him, although the thought of going without him was saddening.†   (source)
  • This did nothing to dissuade Zeitoun.†   (source)
  • If Pecola had announced her intention to live the life they did, they would not have tried to dissuade her or voiced any alarm.†   (source)
  • Naturally, after such a long separation the Count's instinct was to embrace little Nina like a bear; but she seemed to dissuade his impulse with her posture.†   (source)
  • She says she is going, and he thinks she will never make it to the gate, but he doesn't dissuade her.†   (source)
  • With the prospect of forcing entry into Umbridge's office ahead, Harry had never expected the day to be a restful one, but he had not reckoned on Hermione's almost continual attempts to dissuade him from what he was planning to do at five o'clock.†   (source)
  • But then she tried to add some perspective and levity to it, and to ensure that this revelation wouldn't dissuade others from exploring their personal history through PastPerfect.†   (source)
  • The Captain also attempted to dissuade him, arguing that the telegraph was the science of the future.†   (source)
  • At last she decided to leave, not even knowing why or to what purpose, out of sheer fury, and he, inhibited by his sense of guilt, had not been able to dissuade her.†   (source)
  • You wish to dissuade him.†   (source)
  • Ursula Iguaran, his wife, who relied on those animals to increase their poor domestic holdings, was unable to dissuade him.†   (source)
  • I don't wish to dissuade her from this suspicion, as Renny himself, stopping in on his way home last night, all but admitted to me that he's been driving by Liv's office at odd hours, as well as her condominium, to check whether someone else's car might regularly be there.†   (source)
  • He did all he could to dissuade him.†   (source)
  • Jeremy wasn't quite sure what to say to dissuade him—mainly because the man might be right—and a moment later, Mayor Gherkin pushed through the door of the office.†   (source)
  • Leland's primary function in Paris was to dissuade the French government from authorizing massive arms sales-in particular fleets of Mirage jets-to Africa and the Middle East.†   (source)
  • When I told her this evening that I thought it very likely I'd have to go, she cried — but she wasn't really surprised; she didn't try to argue, or dissuade me.†   (source)
  • Unimpressed by Elizabeth's choice in a husband, the young Reverend John Shaw, Abigail had tried to dissuade her, but without success.†   (source)
  • "If it fails," he began slowly, "if Kessell cannot be dissuaded from using the power of the tower against Bryn Shander," he paused again, if only to delay having to hear himself utter the words, "you are then under my personal orders to surrender the city."†   (source)
  • It never dissuades her.†   (source)
  • Alessandro invited Orfeo to stay with him, so that he might dissuade him from leaping and send him back to Rome with a letter that Alessandro would write to his father, explaining the humanitarian necessity of rehiring the scribe on his own terms.†   (source)
  • When Aureliano Serrador and Aureliano Arcaya, the two who arrived during the tumult, expressed a wish to stay in Macondo, their father tried to dissuade them.†   (source)
  • He had tried his best to dissuade the prince from giving Duckfield that cloak, pointing out that the honor might best be held in reserve for warriors of greater renown whose fealty would add luster to their cause, and the younger sons of great lords whose support they would need in the coming struggle, but the boy would not be moved.†   (source)
  • Who's the braid?" she asked me, pushing her sunglasses up onto her head and staring back at Amanda, who was not dissuaded.†   (source)
  • And there was no time for Yossarian to save himself from combat once Colonel Cathcart issued his announcement raising the missions to eighty late that same afternoon, no time to dissuade Nately from flying them or even to conspire again with Dobbs to murder Colonel Cathcart, for the alert sounded suddenly at dawn the next day and the men were rushed into the trucks before a decent breakfast could be prepared, and they were driven at top speed to the briefing room and then out to the…†   (source)
  • He wasn't dissuaded.†   (source)
  • When Doña Zaida realized she couldn't dissuade Rufino from marrying Lourdes, she took control of the wedding instead.†   (source)
  • 168 "I had it in my heart to dissuade him from going and I know I could have prevailed," Abigail wrote to Mercy, "but our public affairs at the time wore so gloomy an aspect that I thought if ever his assistance was wanted, it must be at such a time.†   (source)
  • Again Melquiades tried to dissuade him, but he finally accepted the two magnetized ingots and three colonial coins in exchange for the magnifying glass.†   (source)
  • Also in vain were the artificial nests built of esparto grass in the almond trees and the birdseed strewn about the roofs, and arousing the captives so that their songs would dissuade the deserters, because they would take flights on their first attempts and make a turn in the sky, just the time needed to find the direction to the Fortunate Isles.†   (source)
  • The only time she dissuaded him was when he was about to destroy the daguerreotype of Remedios that was kept in the parlor lighted by an eternal lamp.†   (source)
  • I could not dissuade him.†   (source)
  • Or any dissuasion.†   (source)
  • And he'd tell him in spite of all Ashley could do to dissuade him.†   (source)
  • He put the boy a little away from him and sought to dissuade him from the demand.†   (source)
  • Again she declared that she was going to the saloon, but my mother dissuaded her once more.†   (source)
  • He dissuaded the Gants from surgery.†   (source)
  • He would have liked to explore it, or at least to see whether the roof door was locked, but the thought of that height, that mysterious vacancy and isolation dissuaded him.†   (source)
  • You're right, Rambert, quite right, and for nothing in the world would I try to dissuade you from what you're going to do; it seems to me absolutely right and proper.†   (source)
  • But Amory was not to be dissuaded, from argument at least.†   (source)
  • But Clyde, in spite of this honest and well-meant caution, was not to be dissuaded.†   (source)
  • And then after you had sent the letter he dissuaded you from keeping the appointment?†   (source)
  • He began to speak, trying to find words not to dissuade but simply to soothe her.†   (source)
  • I neither expressed surprise at this resolution nor attempted to dissuade her from it.†   (source)
  • I shall speak to my sisters and try to dissuade them, and that is all I can do.†   (source)
  • Henry wished to dissuade me, but seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate.†   (source)
  • Have you had any expectation of dissuading me?†   (source)
  • You would not dissuade me, Kate; now would you?'†   (source)
  • "What, Grauben, won't you dissuade me from such an undertaking?"†   (source)
  • My guardian did not seek to dissuade me, and I went.†   (source)
  • No one interfered to encourage or dissuade.†   (source)
  • —it was at first a considerable shock to him, and he tried earnestly to dissuade her from it.†   (source)
  • We did our best to dissuade Jake.†   (source)
  • But Monsieur Farival had assured him that his wife was only overcome with sleep and fatigue, that Tonie would bring her safely back later in the day; and he had thus been dissuaded from crossing the bay.†   (source)
  • He felt anguish at not having been able to prevent the flogging, but that was not his fault, if Franz had not screamed like that — clearly it must have caused a great deal of pain but it's important to maintain control of oneself at important moments — if Franz had not screamed then it was at least highly probable that K. would have been able to dissuade the whip-man.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, it was better out there, incomparably more comfortable, by any criterion the most agreeable state of affairs that Hans Castorp could remember ever having tried out—a judgment from which he could not be dissuaded by some writer and Carbonaro who made malicious remarks with snide connotations about the "horizontal life."†   (source)
  • She would have insisted on sending to Petersburg at once, for a certain great medical celebrity; but her daughters dissuaded her, though they were not willing to stay behind when she at once prepared to go and visit the invalid.†   (source)
  • My grandmother's sisters having expressed a desire to mention to Swann this reference to him in the Figaro, my great-aunt dissuaded them.†   (source)
  • But I resisted all his solicitations and succeeded in dissuading him from his announced intention of walking home with me.†   (source)
  • "Faith, Sir Andrew," said Marguerite at last, making brave efforts to dry her tears, "you are right, and I would not now shame myself by trying to dissuade him from doing his duty.†   (source)
  • But the artilleryman dissuaded me: "It's no kindness to the right sort of wife," he said, "to make her a widow"; and in the end I agreed to go with him, under cover of the woods, northward as far as Street Cobham before I parted with him.†   (source)
  • She entered heart and soul into the details of the enterprise, advised and dissuaded: and finally a contract was drawn up by which Kathleen was to receive eight guineas for her services as accompanist at the four grand concerts.†   (source)
  • I beg you, sir, to let it appear quite plain that for conscience' sake I did try in every way… The Step-Daughter [interrupting indignantly and continuing for the MOTHER]…to pacify me, to dissuade me from spiting him.†   (source)
  • They dissuaded me.†   (source)
  • And Clyde, hearing the ring of genuine affection, and sensing anew his old-time power over her, was disposed to reënact the rôle of lover again, if only in order to dissuade Roberta from being too harsh and driving with him now.†   (source)
  • However, when this happens, you should never trust them too far, as however firmly they may have declared this new point of view in favour of the defendant they might well go straight back to their offices and write a report for the court that says just the opposite, and might well be even harder on the defendant than the original view, the one they insist they've been fully dissuaded from.†   (source)
  • "Well, then," he went on, slightly reduced by the fact that his surmise was incorrect, but none the less resolved to dissuade her and him, too: "I think you two should really consider very seriously before you go further in this matter.†   (source)
  • He might be dissuaded, I should think.†   (source)
  • I was firmly convinced that he ought not to marry you—therefore I tried to dissuade him by all the means in my power.†   (source)
  • And, doubtless, he would, in this first outbreak, have carried the intention into effect without a moment's consideration of the consequences, if he had not been restrained, in part, by corresponding violence on the side of Mr. Brownlow, who was himself of an irascible temperament, and party by such arguments and representations as seemed best calculated to dissuade him from his hotbrained purpose.†   (source)
  • I kept my plans to myself; I knew that friends would try to dissuade me from them, and I would not wound their feelings by rejecting their advice.†   (source)
  • Since legislators are unable to obviate such dangerous collisions as occur between the two sovereignties which coexist in the federal system, their first object must be, not only to dissuade the confederate States from warfare, but to encourage such institutions as may promote the maintenance of peace.†   (source)
  • When Princess Mary heard from Nicholas that her brother was with the Rostovs at Yaroslavl she at once prepared to go there, in spite of her aunt's efforts to dissuade her—and not merely to go herself but to take her nephew with her.†   (source)
  • What was unwholesome to him he regarded as unfit for any body; and he had, therefore, earnestly tried to dissuade them from having any wedding-cake at all, and when that proved vain, as earnestly tried to prevent any body's eating it.†   (source)
  • Ivan has dissuaded me.†   (source)
  • This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart.†   (source)
  • Sir Walter had at first thought more of London; but Mr Shepherd felt that he could not be trusted in London, and had been skilful enough to dissuade him from it, and make Bath preferred.†   (source)
  • I had wanted to, but I had not been willing to take desperate chances, and had always dissuaded the king from them.†   (source)
  • The conduct of the son in seeking to avenge his father was so natural that Chateau-Renaud did not seek to dissuade him, and was content with renewing his assurances of devotion.†   (source)
  • Many of the crowd would have dissuaded him from touching a document so suspicious; but Higg was resolute in the service of his benefactress.†   (source)
  • Though he anxiously endeavoured to dissuade me, I saw that he was of my mind; and this, if I had required to be confirmed in my intention, would have had the effect.†   (source)
  • I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.†   (source)
  • The mention of the thing he thought he perceived was involuntary on Sam's part at first, and his confused attempts to dissuade him he set down to a desperate lying on second thoughts, as being unwilling to implicate Liza.†   (source)
  • You would think him gentle, yet in some things he is inexorable as death; and the worst of it is, my conscience will hardly permit me to dissuade him from his severe decision: certainly, I cannot for a moment blame him for it.†   (source)
  • It seems a strange thing to argue about, and of course I ought to tell you definitely that if you expect to dissuade me you may give it up.†   (source)
  • And every one said something kind to me, they began trying to dissuade me, even to pity me: "What are you doing to yourself?"†   (source)
  • These she explained to the unbounded satisfaction of the family, — children and all being then present, — and so much to the awakening of Mr. Micawber's punctual habits in the opening stage of all bill transactions, that he could not be dissuaded from immediately rushing out, in the highest spirits, to buy the stamps for his notes of hand.†   (source)
  • …Newman had it in his power to make, for the accommodation of his guests during the night, occupied no very great time in completing; and as he had insisted, as an express preliminary, that Nicholas should change his clothes, and that Smike should invest himself in his solitary coat (which no entreaties would dissuade him from stripping off for the purpose), the travellers partook of their frugal fare, with more satisfaction than one of them at least had derived from many a better meal.†   (source)
  • My uncle wanted to employ stronger measures, and I had some difficulty in dissuading him; still he had just taken a pickaxe in his hand, when a sudden hissing was heard, and a jet of water spurted out with violence against the opposite wall.†   (source)
  • She tried to dissuade Mary from going, but in vain; and that being the case, thought it best to accept the Miss Musgroves' much more cordial invitation to herself to go likewise, as she might be useful in turning back with her sister, and lessening the interference in any plan of their own.†   (source)
  • But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded by Dorothea's objections, and was in this case brave enough to defy the world—that is to say, Mrs. Cadwallader the Rector's wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire.†   (source)
  • I assured him it was no matter, but the driver, who knew him, would not be dissuaded by me from running down the street to his stable, whence he brought an armful of clean dry straw.†   (source)
  • By the time he was hurrying on his clothes in the morning, he saw so clearly the importance of not losing this rare chance, that if Bambridge and Horrock had both dissuaded him, he would not have been deluded into a direct interpretation of their purpose: he would have been aware that those deep hands held something else than a young fellow's interest.†   (source)
  • He immediately began to spend all the money he had in buying the oddest little ornaments and luxuries for this lodging; and so often as Ada and I dissuaded him from making any purchase that he had in contemplation which was particularly unnecessary and expensive, he took credit for what it would have cost and made out that to spend anything less on something else was to save the difference.†   (source)
  • …she would rather feed and assist than not, she added soon afterwards—as if quite another subject, "It is so cold, so very cold—and looks and feels so very much like snow, that if it were to any other place or with any other party, I should really try not to go out to-day—and dissuade my father from venturing; but as he has made up his mind, and does not seem to feel the cold himself, I do not like to interfere, as I know it would be so great a disappointment to Mr. and Mrs. Weston.†   (source)
  • Miss Churchill, however, being of age, and with the full command of her fortune—though her fortune bore no proportion to the family-estate—was not to be dissuaded from the marriage, and it took place, to the infinite mortification of Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, who threw her off with due decorum.†   (source)
  • I did all I could to dissuade him from it, but he continued scribbling verses till Pope cured him.†   (source)
  • Ah, go down through the ranks of men-ait-arms; in your mild way dissuade them, one by one, from hauling out their graceful ships to sea!†   (source)
  • The house, too, as described by Sir John, was on so simple a scale, and the rent so uncommonly moderate, as to leave her no right of objection on either point; and, therefore, though it was not a plan which brought any charm to her fancy, though it was a removal from the vicinity of Norland beyond her wishes, she made no attempt to dissuade her mother from sending a letter of acquiescence.†   (source)
  • I remember his being dissuaded by some of his friends from the undertaking, as not likely to succeed, one newspaper being, in their judgment, enough for America.†   (source)
  • No, no, take heart, and go among the men; in your mild way dissuade them, one by one, from hauling out their graceful ships to sea.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Ferrars at first reasonably endeavoured to dissuade him from marrying Miss Dashwood, by every argument in her power;—told him, that in Miss Morton he would have a woman of higher rank and larger fortune;— and enforced the assertion, by observing that Miss Morton was the daughter of a nobleman with thirty thousand pounds, while Miss Dashwood was only the daughter of a private gentleman with no more than THREE; but when she found that, though perfectly admitting the truth of her…†   (source)
  • I offered immediately, as soon as my mother related the affair to me, to talk to him myself, and dissuade him from the match; but it was too late THEN, I found, to do any thing, for unluckily, I was not in the way at first, and knew nothing of it till after the breach had taken place, when it was not for me, you know, to interfere.†   (source)
  • I was once inclined to it; but, mentioning it to my good friend Mr. Denham, with whom I often spent an hour when I had leisure, he dissuaded me from it, advising me to think only of returning to Pennsilvania, which he was now about to do.†   (source)
  • Osborne dissuaded him, assur'd him he had no genius for poetry, and advis'd him to think of nothing beyond the business he was bred to; that, in the mercantile way, tho' he had no stock, he might, by his diligence and punctuality, recommend himself to employment as a factor, and in time acquire wherewith to trade on his own account.†   (source)
  • He dissuaded me from returning to my native country, which I began to think of; he reminded me that Keimer was in debt for all he possess'd; that his creditors began to be uneasy; that he kept his shop miserably, sold often without profit for ready money, and often trusted without keeping accounts; that he must therefore fall, which would make a vacancy I might profit of.†   (source)
  • A simple manly character need never make an apology, but should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion,[364] when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle.†   (source)
  • At the moment when Rostov and Ilyin were galloping along the road, Princess Mary, despite the dissuasions of Alpatych, her nurse, and the maids, had given orders to harness and intended to start, but when the cavalrymen were espied they were taken for Frenchmen, the coachman ran away, and the women in the house began to wail.†   (source)
  • Disappointed and uneasy, Nicholas could touch no food, so, after he had seen Smike comfortably established at the table, he walked out (despite a great many dissuasions uttered by Mr Crowl with his mouth full), and left Smike to detain Newman in case he returned first.†   (source)
  • So she refused to let her mother dissuade her.   (source)
    dissuade = stop
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