The end is, to prevail upon a gentleman to act like a gentleman, and a man of honour.
And by what arguments, Sir, do you propose to prevail upon me?
Writes on his pillow, to prevail upon her to prosecute Lovelace for his life.
In this violent death he fulfilled the prediction of his mother at Otranto, who having in vain endeavoured to prevail upon him to return into the bosom of the church, used to superscribe her letters to him in the following manner.
As the king of Aracan was desirous of recovering possession of the fort and custom-house of Siriam, he sent an ambassador to the king of Tangu with twenty jalias or small ships, to prevail upon him to join in that enterprize.
After many altercations, they obtain his consent that his two cousins should endeavour to engage Miss Howe to prevail upon Clarissa to accept of him, on his unfeigned repentance.
That, not being able to prevail upon her to promise any thing, while under a supposed restraint!
It is, that you will all be pleased to join your authority and interests to prevail upon Mr. Lovelace not to molest me farther.
Do not play me booty, Belford; but sincerely and warmly use all the eloquence thou art master of, to prevail upon her to choose one of these three methods.
Do, therefore, prevail upon her to let me go alone to St. Germains.
The difficulties that might have checked, or conquered an inferior degree of passion, served only to strengthen his, and to render it insurmountable-- It was some moments before Emmeline could prevail upon him to listen to her.
And indeed my aunt Hervey has put it to my mother, whether it were not best to prevail upon my brother to take a turn to his Yorkshire estate (which he was intending to do before) and to stay there till all is blown over.
But I told her, that after what had passed between us, she could not hope to prevail upon me to comply with measures so wholly my brother's, and so much to my aversion.
Hugh of Vermandois, upon whom the blandishments of Alexius had produced their impressions, exerted himself to establish peace, and to prevail upon Godfrey to take the oath of fealty to the emperor.
He had married the king's sister; and, being in high favour with him, hoped to prevail upon him to reverse the acts of Philip the Fair, which had prevented his succession to the earldom of Artois.
You will have a letter from my cousin James, who hopes to prevail upon you to relinquish the executorship.
May I not be able to prevail upon him to leave me at my liberty?
I have put him in hopes that he shall see you; and have told him that I will go to town on Wednesday, in order to prevail upon you to accompany me down on Thursday or Friday.
I had been loth to show it to her before, because I hoped to prevail upon her to be mine sooner than the day mentioned in it.
I have not been able to prevail upon Leonora to describe her friend to me exactly; she says only, that she loves Helen too well to over-praise her beforehand.
When he came thoroughly to his recollection, and when the idea that his fever might be infectious occurred to him, he endeavoured to prevail upon me to leave the room.
Franklin, who, with some others, advanced to meet the Paxton boys, as they were called, and had influence enough to prevail upon them to relinquish their undertaking and return to their homes.
In conformity to the instructions which he had received from the legislature, he held a conference with the proprietaries who then resided in England, and endeavoured to prevail upon them to give up the long-contested point.
A bright idea came into his mind, that he might have recourse to Mr. Percy, and, perhaps, prevail upon him to persuade his father not to force him to a step which he could not reconcile either to his conscience or his inclination.
One day, when Godfrey, Captain Henry, and Major Gascoigne were together, the major actually knelt down to Henry, to prevail upon him to give up a mad design of challenging his colonel.
He then made one more trial to prevail upon me to return, but with as little success as before.
Santi tried toprevail upon him to take a little air in a cab, on the Via Appia.
The most he could do would be to tell her exactly what papers were necessary for her marriage and to prevail upon her to procure them as soon as possible, or to hand them to him at once if they were already in her possession.
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