"Coaxing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... credulity about "lucky-fingers." Or rather, I should say, a belief that some people have a strange power (or tact) in dealing with the vegetable world, as others have in controlling and coaxing animals. ...
— Last Words - A Final Collection of Stories • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... more quickly, father; I can hear the drums," the young girl said, and in a half-teasing, half-coaxing manner she ...
— A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac
... gayety was afoot for the evening, a sort of gayety they two had never known, would never know ... little tables with shaded candles, lights, music, subtle, wheedling music, hovering head-waiters ... the newest play ... then more little tables, more wheedling, coaxing music, more hovering head-waiters, dancing.... The boarding-house keeper told herself, comfortably, that it would never do for her, and pushed a tolerant curiosity back into the ragbag of her mind, and the Settlement worker tucked in her lips and reminded herself that there ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... sitting in the President's chair, coaxing some of the hoydenish blossoms into place, when the House Surgeon looked in ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer
... request of her cousin of continually railing against her, had the effect intended. The vituperation of Araminta left him nothing to say; there was no opposition to direct his anathemas against; there was no coaxing or wheedling on the part of the offenders for him to repulse; and when Araminta pressed the old gentleman to vow that Melissa should never enter the doors again, he accused her of being influenced by interested motives, threw a basin ...
— The Poacher - Joseph Rushbrook • Frederick Marryat
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