For a long time I have thought that each post would bring this line, and my persuasions have restrained my uncle from undertaking a journey to Ingolstadt.
When Gonzalo Pizarro determined to send an embassy to Spain to obtain a confirmation of his authority, Aldana was selected as his envoy in 1546; but he was won over to the side of Gasca at Panama, by the persuasions of that wily ecclesiastic.
So he was strengthened in his resolution, and thepersuasions of his friend were lost upon him.
Louis turned round to utter persuasions so foreign to his heart; but a severe look from Marcella checked him: yet he drew near.
I am right fain of his company, and in troth he can use thepersuasions well,--the thumbscrews and tight boots upon occasion.
He little guessed that 'twas the girl's own power over him she wished to test, and that she would not enlist her mother's persuasions but as a last resource.
She said she left in that way, to save the pain of farewells, and to avoid our useless persuasions against her going.
The Admiral had come to his house, and had been so earnest in his persuasions that he could not resist him.
Yet did not he by any means think of fighting against them, but, before they came to blows, to try what persuasions would do.
Psyche resisted these persuasions as well as she could, but they did not fail to have their effect on her mind, and when her sisters were gone, their words and her own curiosity were too strong for her to resist.
Prince Leo united his persuasions to theirs, and promised, in his royal father's name, that peace should be restored on their part.
If it is really in itself such a favour, what needeth so much pressing men to be thankful, and with such eager circumstances, that where persuasions cannot delude, threatenings are employed to fright them into a compliance?
This making a great noise, his friends remonstrated in the strongest terms, pointing out to him the wrong he did himself; but finding all their persuasions ineffectual, they told him plainly he must remove.
In the company of this female he quickly lavished what little money he had, and not knowing how to get more, he fell into the persuasions of some wicked young fellows who advised him to take to robbing in the streets.
When Butler lay under sentence of death he readily confessed whatever crimes he had committed, but he, as well as the before-mentioned criminal, charged much of his guilt upon the persuasions of the evidence Dyer.
He too easily listened to their persuasions and from that time forward he left nothing unstolen upon which he could lay his fingers.
I fear that the persuasions of the handsome Francis of Lorraine may outweigh her own convictions of right.
He had stoutly refused at first, but finally had yielded to the reasonings of his mother and the persuasions of his father.
His mother, who inherited the intellectual ambition of her princely house, exerted all her persuasions to turn the passion of her son from military glory to political honours.
Louis had never before doubted human being; much less suspected perfidy in the man who solicited his confidence, and whose irresistible persuasions had charmed him of more than half his heart.
The two parties set out from the castle together, their roads lying in opposite directions, but Charles escorted his hostess about half-way to Geneva, riding beside her carriage, and continuing his persuasions in a low voice.
No scolding, however, nor persuasionswould induce Joseph to touch the wolf; he was so frightened.
That is, if my persuasions can prevail on my young friend; Mrs. Greville, must I ask your influence, or will mine be enough?
The strong man at length yielded to her persuasions; persuasions around which hung the fragrance of the bruised heart, from which they emanated; touching, irresistible.
When he did come and prescribed the free use of brandy, all of Daddy's prejudices were at once aroused, and no persuasions could induce him to use 'the devil's pison outside or in.
The persuasions of an affectionate wife, who saw with anxiety, her husband's growing love for the wine cup, induced him to emigrate to the far West.
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