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coax her to join us
Definition
try to obtain a result through gentle and careful effort — often gentle persuasion
- And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories.Chapter 20 (12% in)
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- From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion.Chapter 7 (6% in)
- Don't you think I had better take advantage of the confession, and begin and coax and entreat — even cry and be sulky if necessary — for the sake of a mere essay of my power?"Chapter 24 (29% in)
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