Aid me in persuading Sir John and after, and ye shall both go free.
It was more than probable, too, that De Maupas had already broached his plan to Sir John, and, meeting with a rebuff, had bethought him of Edgar and hoped to obtain his aid in persuading his master.
It was, thou wilt remember, my support in persuading thee to agree to his marriage with thy ward--her lands being taken in exchange for his claims to thine.
Besides, they brought up an ill report of your Lord, persuading others that He was a hard task-master.
He was desirous to speak alone to her husband; she hoped when that interview was over to succeed in persuading him.
He had succeeded inpersuading his sanguine self that he had reached the end of his difficulties, and he had profound faith in the imperturbable good-humour which seldom failed to charm.
The whole affair seems to me so inconceivable that I am inclined to believe Nathalie is persuading Leon to exaggerate it, in order that she may gain a longer time in Paris.
The next morning, when Granny Pyetangle awoke, she said she felt considerably better, and so energetic was she that Dame Fossie had great difficulty in persuading her not to get up.
The difficulty in the way was persuading the Lord of the Manor to grant it.
He had much trouble in persuading them; as generally happens in such cases, the bravest had been killed, and the survivors did not feel themselves at all inclined to expose themselves to a similar fate.
In 1917 the Daughters of the American Revolution and Marietta succeeded in persuading the Ohio Legislature to pass a bill making provision for its repair and care.
Thornton, who was at the time superintendent of the patent office, succeeded in persuading Colonel Jones to spare that building, on the ground that it was a museum of the Arts, and that its destruction would be a loss to all the world.
After drinking this toast, she waited on me, helping me to the cold meat and olives, persuading me to eat, and doing the honours like a good little housewife.
I finally succeeded in persuading myself that the pretty thrower of flowers had not the slightest share in this sudden change in my plans.
The crisis of his pleasure in persuading her to do the thing which she hadn't wanted to do was his joy that she hadn't liked it when she had done it.
Instead, the project of persuading her to do something he felt she oughtn't to do flooded him with a tingling pleasure.
In the meantime Esther de Medina had succeeded in persuading her father to advance the money,—advance to her the means wherewith to liquidate the amount of the value at which the jewels were estimated.
Another bottle of wine was ordered, the captain persuading Curtis that it would be better for him to take his first survey of all the grand features of the Bench in the morning, and to pass the evening in conviviality.
Major Davies informs me that he also had difficulty in persuading the people of Muli to allow him to cross the Yalung in the course of his journey from Mien-ning-hsien.
I had great difficulty in persuading one of them to come to me and tell me something of their history; and the one who finally accepted the bribe which I held out was not a brilliant specimen of the attractive race to which he belonged.
They clambered all over Benson, but somehow he was more successful than the young woman in persuading them to go home.
He had had some trouble in persuading her to come back.
I had difficulty in persuading her to let me, she was more timid than ever, but promised that I would never come again.
The two girls turned the corner, stopped, and talked, the bigger laid hold of, and slightly pulled the smaller, and seemed to be persuading her.
What advantage find you in persuading man that nothing but blind force presides over his destinies, and strikes haphazard both crime and virtue?
He seemed to take a malignant delight in persuading himself that the sober life of the world was contemptible and base.
As to his persuadingthe state to send him to Washington, it would have been a certainty, a sure thing, if our zealous young friend Mayne hadn't egged your father into the game.
He had no great difficulty in persuading them that we were friends, for they saw that had he wished it he could have allowed his men to fire, and might have killed numbers of them.
Mr Henley again spoke to Dr Cuff, and was this time more successful in persuading him that there was something wrong going forward on board.
No motive could be strong enough for persuading me to communicate so gloomy a thought with one who, considering her extreme healthiness, was but too remarkably prone to pensive, if not to sorrowful contemplations.
The Trojans would now have been driven in sorry plight from the ships and tents back to windy Ilius, had not Polydamas presently said to Hector, "Hector, there is no persuading you to take advice.
And I have never succeeded in persuading any young persons under my charge--except my own two children--to say that they were wrong or sorry, nor at this time of life do I expect to do so.
The strength that is given at such times arises not from ignoring loss, or persuading oneself that the thing is not that IS; but from the resolute setting of the face to the East and the taking of one step onwards.
This, combined with sticky food, was more than Laura could bear and she had no difficulty in persuading my papa that if she were to stay longer than one week her health would certainly suffer.
Old Antonia came with cakes; Antek had been persuading this woman in vain for a year to hang herself.
Selim did not know what injustice he did me in persuading Hania of the difference between her disposition and mine.
Bismarck, then, had no difficult task in persuading Austria that the time for action had come.
You blame yourself now, I know, for Saint-Bartholomew's night; you blame me for persuading you to it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persuading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hortatory; persuasion; persuasive; suasive; temptation; wheedling
