By day they engage in pairing and coaxing each other.
A party of fishermen fled from us, but by coaxing we got them to show us deep water.
He left him with every mark of disgust, nor could any coaxing induce him to continue with his unsportsman-like companion.
He always endeavoured, by various coaxing gestures, to prevail upon the people of the house to take off his night-jacket, in order that he might play more at ease with his companion.
I have all the trouble in the world to be allowed to go about fit to be seen, and only by means of great fighting and coaxing did I prevail to have my dress only from London instead of Paris.
Come and stravaig," said the girls, and his daughter Betty put a foot in a cranny and pulled herself up beside him to put coaxing arms round his neck.
RED HAND THE smell of wet larch was in the air, and Glenaora was aburst to the coaxing of Spring.
And you will sit down and eat with me, Tilda," said the thief in a coaxing tone—for he now saw that his mistress might become serviceable to him, and he was anxious to conciliate her.
Want to shee inside dat house," she announced, in coaxing baby language.
The incarnation of swift and mischievous daring, Boy-girl; but who could be angry with her long, when she brought her coaxing Irish charm to bear on the situation?
Ned pretended to fill his hat with oats, and walked up with coaxing words.
All sorts of coaxing and argument were used, and even a few gentle digs from Phaeton's heels, but it was of no avail.
You look clean tuckered out," he announced, baldly; then he laid a coaxing hand on her arm.
Her voice suddenly took on a more coaxing tone; she was thinking of that good dinner growing cold--spoiled by the man's ridiculous curiosity.
The tinker said never a word, only his lips parted in a coaxing smile which seemed to say, "Please go on believing in me," and his eyes still held hers unwaveringly.
Nevertheless, Addie succeeded in coaxing him outside, down the road.
It is no use, Barbara; he is beyond your coaxing this evening.
William was clinging round Mrs. Carlyle, in a coaxing attitude, when she re-entered the gray parlor.
Come," said Lawyer Ball, in a coaxing tone, "let us be pleasant.
There was something in her soft coaxing voice which seemed to take him back a dozen years into the past, and which led him along in spite of himself.
Nettie did not know how to coax; was not very well acquainted with her father; did not know how he would endure coaxing of any sort, but some way must be tried, and this was the best one she knew of.
Even Maggie could not hold out against such delightful toys, and after some coaxing from Bessie, and a good deal of peeping through the crack of the door at these wonderful animals, she ventured into Aunt Patty's room.
But after some little coaxing from Bessie, who said she would not go without her, she was at last persuaded, and they set out with Jane, taking Flossy with them.
He used quaint, coaxing names for these, such as a mother uses for her baby.
She thought somebody had caught her unawares; but when she saw it was Beaky she put on a sweet smile, and held out a lump of sugar, saying in a coaxing voice, "Pretty Poll!
Her feet, she considered, were created to be ornamental rather than useful, and no amount of coaxing backed up with massage could persuade her otherwise.
The Bermuda needs muchcoaxing to live through our bleak Northern winters, but the Candidum is absolutely hardy.
My own experience with climbing plants has long since convinced me that they have "a will of their own," and that if their will differs from my own no amount of coaxing will induce them to take the path which is laid out for them.
There was invitation to greater ease in this, and her voice began to have the tender, coaxing quality which had thrilled his heart when he heard it first.
The coaxing and caressing was not there, and could not be expected to impart itself, unless in those refuges of deep feeling supposed to lurk between the lines.
That which bore mastery was a low, thick murmur, coming from deep in the throat, and flowing out in a steady stream of indescribable coaxing and drolling.
The parsons appear to be the main tools in thiscoaxing scheme.
Now then, in order to enlist great numbers of labourers and artisans on their side, the Boroughmongers have fallen upon the scheme of coaxing them to put small sums into what they call banks.
He is, from habit of coaxing his subjects I suppose, a little too fair-spoken, otherwise very pleasant.
We cannot indeed overcome our affections, nor ought we if we could, but we may repress them within due bounds, and avoid coaxing them to make fools of those who should be their masters.
But neither the coaxing tone nor the touch of the soft clinging arms, which the girl now wound about him, moved Peter's heart.
Trembling with eagerness and excitement, she led Judy to the stackyard, and there, after much coaxing and persuasion, induced her to describe her position on the fateful night in question.
Sylvia was calling to the old mare nibbling tufts of early-springing grass here and there, and half unconsciously coaxing the creature to come up to the gate to be stroked.
Instantly his voice changed to its most coaxing tones: "You won't dance with him, will you, Kate darling?
