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Sentences starting with persuade

Persuade him to visit Washington, and by all means to see the Falls of Niagara. [4]
Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. [7]
Persuade yourself that she is by you, and take care that every word, yes, every glance, meets with her approval. [10]
Persuade him to do so, Quijada, if you are really his friend. [10]

Sentences ending with persuade

They are supposed to have no sympathy of feeling or interest with those very persons whom it is their object to convince and persuade. [7]

Short sentences using persuade

I could persuade you. [5]

More example sentences with the word persuade in them

Would it not yet be possible to obtain her forgiveness and persuade her to pose as the model of his Arachne? [10]
True, the duke would have preferred to induce her to go to Spain, and tried to persuade her to do so by the assurance that the King himself desired to receive her there. [10]
Asarja and Michael, with their sons, who grudged the power of Moses and Aaron, had even gone from one to another to try to persuade them, ere departing, to summon the elders again and charge then to enter into fresh negotiations with the Egyptians. [10]
And I hope," with a smile to Alice, "you can persuade your cousin to join us sometimes. [4]
The advice seemed wise--at least he tried to persuade himself that it was--because it promised honor and fame, but in reality he wished to follow it because it would bring her for whom his soul yearned nearer to him. [10]
I know no way to persuade you. [5]
That her darling was alive she was sure; in that she could not be mistaken, often as Euphorion tried to persuade her that he must be dead. [10]
Though by the twentieth of August nearly all the Rostovs' acquaintances had left Moscow, and though everybody tried to persuade the countess to get away as quickly as possible, she would not hear of leaving before her treasure, her adored Petya, returned. [2]
A minister was trying to create influential friends for a project which might be worth ten millions a year to the agriculturists of the Republic; and our Government had furnished him ham and lemonade to persuade the opposition with. [5]
I had infinite trouble to persuade those people to venture back within explaining distance. [5]
And whenever we tried to persuade him to feel cheerfuler, he only shook his head and said if we only knowed what it was to carry around a murderer's load in your heart we wouldn't talk that way. [5]
Frau Lerch continued to urge her, and now advised her to persuade the Emperor to rid her of the old tormentor. [10]
He now wishes to see his mother before she dies, and it was as much as we could do this morning to persuade him from going to her openly in the face of arrest. [9]
Why, he tried to persuade you last night that our Illinois Legislature instructed him to introduce the Nebraska Bill. [7]
He was there to persuade the strikers to be quiet and go home. [8]
There are ways to persuade him to abandon it. [5]
True, her attempt to persuade Frau Lerch to accompany her remained futile. [10]
This task was to fall to Hermon, and also another, still more important one; for he, his nephew and future son-in-law, if any one, could persuade the wealthy Archias to lend the plot his valuable aid. [10]
I go first to Burey, to persuade my uncle Laxart to go with me, it not being meet that I go alone. [5]
It was scarcely to be doubted that Heinz Schorlin was fired with ardent love for Eva; but, for that very reason, he would be ready to yield her obedience, and therefore it was advisable to tell her exactly to what she must persuade him. [10]
For a long time she has been unwilling to share my poverty, and if Herr Peter had remained loyal to our holy religion, I would persuade her myself. [10]
He would seek this man Noble; he would argue, he would persuade, he would appeal to his honor. [5]
I wanted to think that out; and moreover I wanted to think out some way to reform this evil and persuade the people to let the foolish fashion die out; but thinking was out of the question in the circumstances. [5]
And, above all things, he must warn Agatha against the deaconess, who would fain persuade her to go with her. [10]
Nothing in all the world could persuade me to have a conscience again. [5]
To tell you the truth, I have tried to persuade them not to go into the thing; and I have come square out with their offer, without throwing out any feelers--and I did it in the hope that you would refuse. [5]
I felt that the story of his life must be a sad one--a story of suffering, disappointment, and exile--a story of man's inhumanity to man in some shape or other--and I longed to persuade the secret from him. [5]
The effect on the minds of the owners is to persuade them that there is no wrong in it. [7]
Several times during the day she was on the point of telephoning Brent not to try to persuade Howard to rent the house, and once she even got so far as to take down the receiver. [9]
Rostov had not the courage to persuade Denisov, though he instinctively felt that the way advised by Tushin and the other officers was the safest, and though he would have been glad to be of service to Denisov. [2]
He had forgotten the convention He told her what had happened at Mr. Carvel's store, and how the Colonel had tried to persuade Judge Whipple to take the Glencoe house while he was in Europe, and how the Judge had refused. [9]
If a Kanaka takes a notion to die, that is the end of him; nobody can persuade him to hold on; all the doctors in the world could not save him. [5]
Weeks had been spent already in trying to get her to surrender--time wholly wasted; what was to persuade her now? [5]
Or was he so sore over what had been said about his habit that he wanted to persuade others and likewise himself that he hadn't even ever had any taste for it? [5]
Nor can his sincerity in any way be doubted, or his sympathy for those he would persuade to imitate his example be denied. [7]
When they had sight of her, and saw how well she was cared for, they greatly rejoiced and promised to persuade their father to redeem her and conclude a lasting peace. [4]
From the dancing room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade Natasha to sing. [2]
He has a right to try to persuade you that he understands their principles better than they did, and, therefore, he will apply them now, not as they did, but as they ought to have done. [7]
Tom's conduct had remained so letter-perfect during two whole months now, that his uncle not only trusted him with money with which to persuade voters, but trusted him to go and get it himself out of the safe in the private sitting room. [5]
Having understood this Princess Mary sobbed still louder, and the doctor taking her arm led her out to the veranda, soothing her and trying to persuade her to prepare for her journey. [2]
No plan to prejudice the Queen against her husband and persuade her to commit the treachery was left untried. [10]
But I won't persuade you, Twichell--I won't until I see you again--but then we'll smoke for a week together, and then shut off again. [5]
Does some one persuade you that Mr. Fillmore can carry Illinois? [7]
Therefore, you must persuade Uncle Jim to come out here and help us in that line. [5]
Perhaps you can persuade them that good works are the rage, too. [8]
She was to persuade the smith to forgive his wife, with whose praises her son's lips were overflowing. [10]
Would Mr. Wood persuade my father? [9]
And Jack did persuade Mrs. Blunt to accept. [4]
I hope to persuade it to remain pretty quiet, though, because a materialization which is in a state of arrested development must of necessity be pretty soft and flabby and substanceless, and--er--by the way, I wonder where It comes from? [5]
And you didn't persuade him; he is all ice and iron: there isn't a soft place nor a warm one in him anywhere. [5]
If anybody can persuade him, she can. [5]
If you could persuade him to go abroad. [2]
He intended to persuade him to advance the capital for which he had just vainly asked Herr Vorchtel. [10]
But, before we part, let me beseech you to do everything to persuade Barine to leave here. [10]
No appeals, entreaties, or taunts could persuade him to bid more. [9]
Still more, if one of our ancestors built on an unsafe or an unwholesome foundation, the best thing we can do is to leave it and persuade others to leave it if we can. [6]
If she knew old Eysvogel's terrible situation she would certainly do everything in her power to persuade her father to receive him that morning, or--which would be still better--go to his office. [10]
Other Union men, of undoubted patriotism and high standing, persuaded themselves, and sought to persuade the people, that Lincoln's renomination was ill advised and dangerous to the Union cause. [7]
She was proud of being my secretary, and I was never able to persuade her to give up any part of her share in that unlovely work. [5]
Our poor stick of a King allowed his worthless advisers to persuade him to start back for Gien, whence he had set out when we first marched for Rheims and the Coronation! [5]
As I feel now, I do not think anything could persuade me; but you cannot tell what you will do when you are reduced by hunger and your mind wandering. [5]
At dinner, when not talking about his mare, the Colonel was trying to persuade Stephen to remain. [9]
But I could not persuade him, for he has not discovered fear yet, and so he could not understand me. [5]
Why did you not endeavor to persuade the people with words of warning, rather than with brute force? [10]
So it was not difficult to persuade my daughter that a short visit to that city was the next step to be taken. [6]
I'll give my nose--true, it's only a small one, but everybody values that feature most--if they don't persuade him to leave that horrible crow's nest in the middle of the sea. [10]
I ain't got no learning, I can't find the words I'm after--but maybe I can persuade him it ain't the same world we're living in. [9]
It had been no easy task to persuade Mary to accede to his importunities, but to his great joy he at last succeeded. [10]
The state of nature of Rousseau was a state in which inequality did not exist, and with a fervid rhetoric he tried to persuade his readers that it was the happier state. [4]
Now--" "Ah, dear my lord, an ye will but persuade him! [5]
I will do my best to persuade her, for your advice is prudent. [10]
It was as much as we could do to persuade him to wait until we had seen Monsieur de Carondelet. [9]
But in every mood he still strove to persuade Eva to renounce the world. [10]
No threats nor mockery of his companions could persuade him to rise. [10]
He wouldn't take mine, I couldn't persuade him. [5]
We cannot persuade Livy to go out in society yet, but all the lovely people come to see her; and Clara and I go to dinner parties, and around here and there, and we all have a most hospitable good time. [5]
True, he did it, but to persuade him the poor woman sacrificed half the fortune her father had earned by his brush. [10]
How any man, in his right mind or out of it, could sit down and coldly try to persuade anybody to believe it, or listen patiently to it, or, indeed, do anything but scoff at it and deride it, is astonishing. [5]
The landlord at Ilium endeavored to persuade Philip to hire the services of a witch-hazel professor of that region, who could walk over the land with his wand and tell him infallibly whether it contained coal, and exactly where the strata ran. [5]
But oh, doctor, if you could only persuade Eutbymia to become a physician! [6]
I asked him if he could persuade the others to depart if we paid him. [5]
Don't you know how apt he is, how exceedingly anxious he is at all times, to seize upon anything and everything to persuade you that something he has done you did yourselves? [7]
On which occasion his Reverence endeavoured to persuade the young man to remain in England, and even went so far as to promise his influence to obtain him preferment. [9]
He spends all his remarkable eloquence in trying to persuade her, that she must forget this world entirely and only try to gain the favor of Osiris and the judges of the nether world by ceaseless prayers and sacrifices. [10]
Mr. Dilworthy considered his re-election certain, but he was a careful, painstaking man, and if, by visiting his State he could find the opportunity to persuade a few more legislators to vote for him, he held the journey to be well worth taking. [5]
Help me persuade him to listen to me. [10]
Endeavor to persuade him to give up his suit. [10]
Tom can persuade him into things which other people can't--not all things; I don't mean that, but a good many--particularly one class of things: the things that create or abolish personal partialities or prejudices in the old man's mind. [5]
Hartmann would understand him and persuade his imperial father to aid him in his suit. [10]
Try to persuade her to pursue this course. [10]
She will persuade her that I never meant to wound her. [5]
And he told her of his intention to persuade Pierre to stay with them till spring. [2]
She honestly did her best to persuade me to relinquish our enterprise, to go to Mr. Cooke and confess the whole thing. [9]
It has unquestionably helped to teach wise people that nature heals most diseases without help from pharmaceutic art, but it continues to persuade fools that art can arrest them all with its specifics. [3]
All this she heard gladly; yet could no one persuade her to let her hand be read. [10]
But it is hard to persuade reasonable people to swallow the abominations of a former period. [3]
As yet he had no plan thought out in regard to how or when to leave the valley, but he decided to tell her the necessity of it and to persuade her to go. [13]
Even when he had brought my mother over to his side, and my uncle and brothers and sisters tried to persuade me to yield to his wish, I remained resolute. [10]
Herr Ueberhell's joy had been so great that now the longing for his son took deeper hold of him, and he lost strength day by day, yet Frau Vorkel could not persuade him to see a physician. [10]
When Papias had grown to man's estate and was installed as steward to Demetrius, he sought his sister many times and tried to persuade her to live with him in his new home; but she never would consent to quit her solitary cell. [10]

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