"Persuasive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... heart, having routed the old lady, at least for this afternoon, Milly continued to set up the broken and shabby household goods to suit herself. She coaxed the colored boys into considerable activity with her persuasive ways, having an inherited capacity for getting work out of lazy and emotional help, who respond to the personal touch. By dusk, when her father came, she had the two front rooms arranged to her liking. Sam was hanging a bulky steel ...
— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick
... those of Britain. After many dreams of success and many conflicts betwixt prudence and ambition, he resolved on putting his scheme in practice; the potent witchery possessed his brain, and all the persuasive powers of reason ...
— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson
... common masterpiece of cunning from a man in a corner, which suggests with so persuasive an air that he has ruled his actions up to the very moment when he faces you, and had almost preconceived the present occasion, rather won Lady Charlotte; or it seemed to, or the scene had been too long for ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... garden is, the spring twilight veils all deficiencies and releases persuasive odours from every corner, while the knoll, with its gnarled trees outlined against the sky, appealed to me as never before, a thing desirable and to be restored and preserved even at a cost rather ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright
... because there wanteth arguments in the tenders of the gospel, for there is not only plenty, but such as be persuasive, clear, and ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
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