Experiments, may perhaps have already perswaded You.
Dislike of this first by degrees shall steal, As upon souls of men perswaded wrong; And that the sacred power which thus hath wrought, Shall give her self the sword to cut her throat.
As for the Sea-men they were easily perswaded to anything; for they were quite tired with this long and tedious Voyage, and most of them despaired of ever getting home, and therefore did not care what they did, or whither they went.
He perswaded them to stay till the next day, for an Answer from Captain Swan and the Merchants.
Diogenes the Philosopher was hence perswaded that those scorching heates had burnt the Moone into the forme of a Pumice-stone.
And that other man, whom Plutarke would have perswaded to agree with his brother, answered, "I care not a straw the more for him, though he came out of the same wombe I did.
But were every Man perswaded from how mean and low a Principle this Passion is derived, there can be no doubt but the Person who should attempt to gratify it, would then be as contemptible as he is now successful.
One upbraids me with being their Familiar, another will hardly beperswaded that I am an Uncle, a third calls me Little Uncle, and a fourth tells me there is no Duty at all due to an Uncle.
Were Women admitted to plead in Courts of Judicature, I am perswaded they would carry the Eloquence of the Bar to greater Heights than it has yet arrived at.
For the Folly is, that they haveperswaded themselves they really are busy.
For he was informed and perswaded that the poor man played with a fly, otherwise called a devill or familiar.
However, to make our Circumstances tollerable for the future, I perswaded my Consort to abridge her self of some superfluous Charge which we cou'd not well bear any longer.
Is this the honor of the conscience, which you haue many times perswaded me rather to die than lose the same?
Now the hangman saw himself frustrated in his hopes hee perswaded mee presently after supper to goe to my rest into my bed betymes, because the shipper with whom I was to goe to Rochell would call mee early in the morning.
Easter, he would by no meanes yéeld to them that would haue perswaded him to haue followed the rite of the Romane church.
These were sufficient motiues to haueperswaded her from the murder of so good a friend.
But her subjects, who could hardly be perswaded to believe her mortal, tender'd her all the Veneration and Worship due to a Deity.
Yes, I had reason for't, And now you are perswaded I'le make use on't.
Frederick, if I could all this while have been perswaded she could Have lov'd me, dost thou think I had not rather kiss her Than another should?
For your sweet self in particular, who she resolvesperswaded your Friend to neglect her, she deemeth whip-cord the most Convenient unction for your back and shoulders.
The Priest said, he is none of my man, and he said to me, that you would not bee perswaded that your husband ought to be your head.
An Apprentice in the market, did aske the price of an hundred Oysters; his friend perswaded him not to buy them, for they were too small.
One hearing a Usurer say he had been on the pike of Teneriff (which is supposed to be one of the highest hils in the worlde) asked him why he had not stay'd there, for he was perswaded hee would never come so neere heaven againe.
One perswaded a Scholar that was much given to rambling, and going abroad, to sell or put away his Cushion, and it would be a means to make him sit harder to his study.
One perswaded his friend to marry a little woman because of evils the least was to be chosen.
My Lord Lothian said, "The Minister is a man of God, and I amperswaded not one word of his will fall to the ground!
Now wants there nothing but a fit excuse To sooth the Duke in his concern'd abuse; That he may beperswaded she is slaine, And we our wonted fauour still maintaine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perswaded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
