"Persuasively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there, Jasper says," put in Polly, persuasively; "and just think, mammy, no brothers and sisters!" And Polly ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... go so well together in the Rose and Lily duet," said Kate, putting the book of the cantata upon the piano-rack and opening it persuasively. ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... which are allegories. The "Thistle and the Rose" has been pronounced "the happiest political allegory in our language. Heraldry has never been more skilfully handled, nor compliments more gracefully paid, nor fidelity more persuasively preached to a monarch ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... soiled shirt waist and shabby skirt, with a small waist and shoulders disproportionately broad; and with, moreover, a dab of paint upon each high-boned cheek,—nothing daunted by previous failures, leaned forward and putting a somewhat soiled finger beneath the child's pretty chin, inquired persuasively, "And isn't the darling going to ...
— The Angel of the Tenement • George Madden Martin
... didn't yo?' said Louis, persuasively, enraged that David would never accept information from her, while she was always expected to take it ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... right over!' the fluent but kind voice said persuasively. 'It's all spilin' to be eat. An' what kin you do? There ain't no fire here to warm you, and it'll take a bit of a while before you kin get one; an' you're all tired out. Jes' come over and hev a cup o' hot coffee, and get heartened up a bit, and then you'll ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner |
