History has recorded the efforts made by Catherine to persuade her husband not to enter the lists.
The Prince de Conde was there, madame," said Chiverni, "but he could notpersuade the Connetable to join him.
I knew how obstinate he was, and that if I once allowed him to go with me to town, he would be sure to subject me to more painful meetings in the endeavour to persuade me to remain in England.
Remember, your father could easily persuade your mother to go away with him if he were bent on having you; and then the old life for her would begin again.
Now, look here; you tell your mother about it, and see if you can't persuade her to oblige me.
The friends who had come to take their last look at me tried to persuade her it was only fancy, but, as she persisted, Dr.
Achmet ibn-Mustapha also coaxes me to take him with me to Alexandria, and to try again to persuade his father to send him to England to Mr. Fowler.
Zeyneb hectors Omar and I cannot persuade him to check her.
He has an Arab wife and grown-up daughters, and is a very agreeable old man with a store of Arab legends; I am going to persuade him to write them and let me translate them into English.
Farewell, dearest, I dare hardly say how your hint of possibly coming has made me wish it, and yet I dread to persuade you.
Poor Adam's father died of grief at his son's going, nothing would persuade him that Adam would come back safe, and having a heart complaint, he died.
Mustapha tried to persuade me not to give physick, for fear those who died should pass for being poisoned, but both Omar and I are sure it is only to excuse his own selfishness.
He had gone away boldly resolved on making an attempt to persuade the English Foreign Secretary to interest himself on behalf of Czernovese liberty.
You will not persuade me to return to Slavowitz,' he was saying.
They asked him why he had left drinking, and even sought to persuade him that he should go and talk with Elsalill and so recover his good humour.
He was in due course convicted of murder, although it was difficult to persuade him that he had had a fair trial, seeing that his wife did not succumb immediately to the cruel injury she had received at his hands.
He seems to reason with the man and persuade him to act contrary to the commands of his Creator, and he offers the forbidden apple to the woman.
She tried to persuade herself that he henceforth at least became in some degree irresponsible for his own actions.
But by no means so good as his wine, my lord,' said a witty minor canon.
But Julia found it an easy task to persuade her sister that pearls were not becoming to her style of beauty; so on the evening of the party they gleamed amid the heavy braids of Julia’s hair.
She resolved to go home and persuade her hard-hearted daughter, if possible, to go to the dying man.
I remained long in mute contemplation, and the more I gazed, the less could I persuade myself that life had really abandoned that beautiful body for ever.
Rosald was much grieved when he heard these words, but he knew that it was useless attempting to persuade Geirald, and turned his thoughts to forming some plan to prevent this disgraceful flight.
It often, however, required all his influence to persuade her to accompany him in his walks with Lady Pelham.
Laura, who forboded the worst consequences from the indulgence of this depression, endeavoured to persuade him that he might now safely attempt a voyage to Scotland, and predicted beneficial effects from the sea air.
Let us talk of this no more,' said she; 'let me rather try to persuade you not only to excuse, but to sanction the obstinacy that offended you.
Let mepersuade you to the review of your conduct; to the consideration of your prospects as an accountable being, of the vengeance that awaits the impenitent, of the escape offered in the gospel.
Towards her, however, her aunt expressed a strong affection; and Laura continued to persuade herself, that if Lady Pelham had no friends, it was because she was surrounded by those who were not worthy of her friendship.
Postellus useth as an argument (as, indeed, it is) to persuade them that will not believe there be spirits or devils.
To make up for this, he adopts a blustering manner, as if to persuade himself that he is a fine fellow after all.
He was a sturdy boy, and evinced even greater antipathy than usual to learning the alphabet, and was never so happy as when he could persuade Marco to take him down to the beach to play with the fisher children.
The crueltye of a Kynge of Macedone who forced a gentlewoman called Theoxena, to persuade hir children to kill and poyson themselves: after which fact, she and hir husband Poris ended their lyfe by drowninge.
Punchkin, the magician, saw him, and, coming out, tried to persuade the boy to give him the parrot.
But the prince contrived to get speech of her and told her that she must persuade True Steel to reveal to her where his strength lay.
He again fell asleep, in the midst of numerous and conflicting conjectures relative to the incident which had just occurred; and when he awoke two hours afterwards, he was fain to persuade himself that it was all a dream.
He says that he shall persuade upon Tom to stay at home and take care of him; and then he'll be able to turn away cross old Margery, who robs him and ill-treats him in a shameful manner.
Nothing could persuade me that your brother would fail to write a line to you in such a case as this is represented to be.
But it was dangerous work to endeavour to govern or persuade Henry, as Cromwell was to find to his cost.
Since his first appearance in Parliament, he had striven to persuade the people that the Conservatives were truer friends of the masses than the Liberals.
Surrounding the sanctuary with guards, and then threatening to break in if he was resisted, he sent Cardinal Bourchier, the aged Archbishop of Canterbury, to persuade Elizabeth to give up her young son, Richard of York.
Accordingly, the duke resolved to persuade the young king to cut his sisters out of the succession, and leave the crown by will to his cousin.
Both Bedford and the English council of regency completely disavowed Gloucester's doings, but it was hard to persuade Burgundy that England had not determined to break with him.
But while intriguing with Spain, James, with great duplicity, tried to persuade his subjects that he was ready to make war on the Emperor, in order to restore the elector by force of arms.
The only way out of the difficulty was to persuade the nation to submit to new imposts, and most especially to induce the nobles to surrender their old feudal privilege of exemption from taxation.
He tried to persuade the Celtic chiefs to learn Latin, and to take to civilized ways of life, as their kinsmen in Gaul had done.
No bishop, no king," was his answer to the Puritans, who strove to persuade him into abolishing episcopacy, and establishing a Presbyterian form of Church government.
His colleagues in the ministry resolved to support the proposal, but they proved unable to persuade the whole of their party to follow them.
Elizabeth was much enraged with her former favourite, and allowed his enemies to persuade her into permitting him to be tried and executed for treason.
It was many years, however, before the Scots came to acquiesce cordially in the Union, and the Jacobite party did their best to keep up the old national grudge, and to persuade Scotland that she had suffered by the change.
No man could ever persuade Irish parties to join for long, and Sanders's mission was in that respect a failure.
It is hard to discover how a sincerely religious and right-minded man, for such Henry of Monmouth undoubtedly was, could persuade his conscience that it was permissible to vamp up once more these antiquated claims.
