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- He eagerly endeavoured to dissuade the gentlemen of his acquaintance from smoking after dinner, which he had found by experiment to be injurious. [10]
- Both were trying to dissuade her. [10]
- Scarcely that, but the Honourable had made up his mind to cross the glacier and none sought to dissuade him from his choice; the more so, because there was something of danger in the business. [11]
- But she knew that the Nile would flow backwards before she could dissuade him from keeping his promise to the abbess, so she forced herself to preserve at any rate outward composure. [10]
- We thought it prudent to dissuade her from the attempt, though it was evident her heart was longing to join in the public act of devotion and praise. [14]
- Then, thinking I might still dissuade her, I went slowly up the padded stairway--to find her door locked; and a sense of the finality of her decision came over me. [9]
- There was the incredulity and amazement of nearest friends, who tried to dissuade him from so extraordinary a proceeding. [9]
- Nor could the honest German dissuade him from going back to the office for the rest of the day, or discover what had happened. [9]
- I had to have them, so Simmons said he would go back and get them, and I didn't dissuade him. [5]
- I had seen from the first the futility of trying to dissuade him from the expedition, and I knew now that it would never come off. [9]
- How could I dissuade you from mitigating the great misfortune which overtook this youth in your house? [10]
- All endeavors to dissuade them from their project failed. [5]
- I could have cried--but it would have done no good to try to dissuade my father, so I said nothing, but merely sat there and suffered. [5]
- Navarrete and the captain strove to dissuade the sick man, but the latter suddenly felt cured of his fever, and with flashing eyes insisted on having his own way. [10]
- There was still another, a harsh one that growled something unintelligible, and Wetherell guessed, from the fragments which he heard, that the judge before sitting down to his duty was trying to dissuade the stage driver from a step that was foolhardy. [9]
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