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Sentences starting with persuaded

Persuaded that his head would be more useful on his own neck in the councils of the nation than on exhibition to the populace from the point of a pike? [9]

Sentences ending with persuaded

There's a noble shad for breakfast; wait--be persuaded. [5]
She said she knew he would be anxious about his work; he protested that he could take it with him to any distance within a few hours, but she would not be persuaded. [8]
Oh, my King, I would that you would be persuaded! [5]

Short sentences using persuaded

But I persuaded him. [5]

Sentences containing persuaded two or more times

The mad cannot be persuaded out of their delusions, perchance; but doubtless they may be persuaded to avoid perils. [5]

More example sentences with the word persuaded in them

With what fiery zeal Wolf persuaded him, how convincing was his assurance that a substitute for Johann of Cologne, and a most admirable one, was actually to be found here in Ratisbon! [10]
Still the matron would not allow herself to be persuaded, and after the chief priest had been called away to the service of the god, Euryale reproved her sister-in-law for her too great zeal. [10]
Well, upon my word if things ain't getting to a pretty pass when--" The house broke into laughter, but was promptly brought to order, and meantime Mr. Allen persuaded the old lady to take her seat. [5]
The chiefs argued with her, and at last persuaded her to go home and prepare for the great work by taking proper rest, and also by having a leech look to a wound which she had received in her foot. [5]
Without doubt she will be persuaded to see you. [5]
It was Philippus who had persuaded his accomplished and experienced friend to come to Memphis; he had clung to him faithfully, and they assisted each other in their works. [10]
Then the presents were brought him, his bason and ewer, bed and furniture set up, his scarlet cloke and apparel, with much adoe put on him, being persuaded by Namontuck they would not hurt him. [4]
When the Lady Wendula, his master's mother, learned what an excellent reputation Biberli had gained as a schoolmaster, she persuaded her husband to send him as esquire with their sickly son. [10]
Ursula was growing weak herself, and showed it; and she ate of the food that was offered her like a starving person, but could not be persuaded to carry any home, for Marget would not eat charity food. [5]
When grown, it was often with difficulty that our mother persuaded her to attend a ball, while Martha's eyes sparkled joyously when there was a dance in prospect; and yet the tall and slender Paula looked extremely pretty in a ball dress. [10]
Bemis did not want the mule; but the owner came out with a double-barreled shotgun and persuaded him to buy it, anyhow. [5]
There were men-killers, too, usually to be found in pairs, in startling costumes they had been persuaded were the latest Paris models,--imitations of French cocottes in Hampton, proof of the smallness of our modern world. [9]
The high-priest's servants told him that Setchem had persuaded the easily-moved old prophet Gagabu to conduct her to the place where the body of Paaker lay. [10]
Wolf had just told her that his time was short; but now he willingly allowed himself to be persuaded to put down his sword and hat, and when Frau Lamperi brought in some refreshments, he recognised her, and asked her several pleasant questions. [10]
I persuaded him to stop over at Niagara, which he had never seen. [6]
Harriet persuaded him to set up a carriage. [5]
I persuaded him to rob you; and I and a woman helped him to desert, and got him away in safety. [5]
I was persuaded to reject the title, A Romany of the Snows, by my English publisher, and I have never forgiven myself since for being so weak. [11]
They persuaded Congress to pass an act requiring the Auditor to re-examine their case. [5]
I personally happen to know that the general had you on the Judiciary and Appropriations, and that some of your--er--well-wishers persuaded him to take you off for your own good. [9]
He persuaded me to invest $15,000, and I lived up to my beliefs by engaging a man to develop it. [5]
I got down to Dover, and persuaded the master of a schooner to carry me to Rotterdam. [9]
She persuaded him to disobey the King in the interest of the nation, and to be reconciled to Count Richemont and welcome him. [5]
Sometimes Florence ceases to be substantial, and becomes just a faint soft dream, with domes and towers of air, and one is persuaded that he might blow it away with a puff of his breath. [5]
The latter desired to ascertain whether the influential warrior who commanded the most important fortress in the country could be persuaded to join a conspiracy formed by Arsinoe against her royal husband, but he seemed to have left Philippus with very faint hopes. [10]
He went straight to a slopshop and bought as neat and reasonably well-fitting a suit of clothes as an Englishman could be persuaded to wear. [5]
I persuaded myself this evening that I could fetch him around without any great amount of effort, but I've been getting more and more heavyhearted and doubtful straight along, ever since. [5]
The landlord and the two village policemen stood their ground, and at last the mob was persuaded to go away and leave our Italians in peace. [5]
In spite of the terrific heat Damia would not be persuaded to come down from the turret-room where she had collected all the instruments, manuals and formulas used by astrologers and Magians. [10]
Jameson shot at the ridges and rocks with his artillery, just as General Colley had done at the Nek; and did them no damage and persuaded no Boer to show himself. [5]
Finally Erasistratus persuaded the matron, who seemed to have forgotten her previous exhaustion, to share the consultation, but the convalescent's heart throbbed faster as he watched the famous leeches. [10]
Finally he persuaded the leader of the lepers, who had once been an Egyptian priest, to keep at least half the distance demanded. [10]
It is only the headless body of a man, clad in a coat of mail, with a Medusa head upon the breast-plate, but we feel persuaded that such dignity and such majesty were never thrown into a form of stone before. [5]
I felt persuaded that this woman must have been misrepresented, lied about. [5]
Prichard is persuaded that the present inhabitants of Britain have "much more capacious brain-cases" than the ancient inhabitants. [1]
I assured her that nothing was needed for him that night but rest, and persuaded her that the excitement of her presence could only do harm. [6]
I am persuaded that it can make a plausible showing in that direction. [5]
I feel persuaded that in the matter of psychologizing, a professional is too apt to yield to the fascinations of the loftier regions of that great art, to the neglect of its lowlier walks. [5]
I wished heartily that I had exhausted him further, and a suspicion crossed my brain that he might have come to Mr. Allen, who had persuaded him to deliver a letter to Grafton intended for me. [9]
Smith himself says that Chambers had persuaded the French admiral that if Smith was let to go on his boat he would revenge himself on the French fisheries on the Banks. [4]
I am persuaded that a too exclusively porcine diet gives a bristly character to the beard and hair, which is borrowed from the animal whose tissues these stiff-bearded compatriots of ours have too largely assimilated. [6]
Had he been tampered with overnight, and persuaded of the futility of rebellion? [9]
They would have succeeded in this great scheme, as I understand it, but for the interference of Cecil Rhodes and Mr. Beit, and other Chiefs of the Matabele, who persuaded their countrymen to revolt and throw off their allegiance to Germany. [5]
But in the spring of that year, he received a letter from his mother, written without his father's knowledge, and that letter persuaded him to return. [2]
His rear was so marvelously bepatched with colored squares and triangles that one was half persuaded he had got it out of an atlas. [5]
As she did so I saw a look of immediate purpose in her face, and her hurrying step persuaded me she was bent on some project of espial. [11]
He believed this so firmly that others, looking at him, were persuaded of it too and did not refuse him either a leading place in society or money, which he borrowed from anyone and everyone and evidently would not repay. [2]
Elfonzo, during his short stay in the country, had fully persuaded himself that it was his duty to bring this solemn matter to an issue. [5]
I did say she promised to marry me, but they put me up to it and persuaded me. [5]
Ah, how easily she had been persuaded to enter it! [9]
Mind what I say--he has given his friends the slip, and persuaded this delicate young creetur all along of her fondness for him to be his guide and travelling companion--where to, he knows no more than the man in the moon. [12]
The venerable high-priest Rui, though wholly unaware of the conspiracy, shared this opinion, and thus the sovereigns had been persuaded to interrupt the mourning for the dead and speak in person to the Hebrew. [10]
They raised a revolt; they scared a number of people into joining their standard, and Bekuokalani, an ambitious offshoot of royalty, was easily persuaded to become their leader. [5]
Joan pleaded, persuaded, reasoned; gaining ground little by little, but opposed step by step by the council. [5]
Such is my programme; and I am persuaded that by adhering to it with fidelity I shall succeed in materially changing the character of this magazine. [5]
He had even persuaded the monarch to pursue the fugitives, and an army had been instantly summoned to compel their return. [10]
But I am persuaded that the humidity of the atmosphere in these remote regions is such that particles of daylight adhere to the disk and it was by aid of these that we were enabled to see the sun in the dark. [5]
He was fully persuaded that his own end must be near, if indeed Tarautas were dead. [10]
I should have persuaded myself, no doubt, that I had not done a foolish thing in yielding to an impulse and proposing to an inexperienced and provincial young woman, yet there would have been regrets in the background. [9]
Once my imagination persuaded me that the dying man gave me a reproachful look out of his shadowy eyes, and it seemed to me that I would rather he had stabbed me than done that. [5]
He had almost persuaded himself to be what he would have her to believe he might be. [11]
He had indeed persuaded himself to accept her self-sacrifice, but he was fully determined that if she must die he would follow her to the grave. [10]
He had half persuaded himself that it was scientific curiosity. [6]
At length he persuaded himself that he would be able to see riders mounted on horses before they could see him on the little burro, and he rode bareback. [13]
However, I have persuaded him to stay for supper. [9]
If he were persuaded against his will, he would load that well with a malicious enchantment which would balk me until I found out its secret. [5]
I persuaded John Paul to descend with me. [9]
Ian Belward had painted them and their van in the hills of Auvergne, and had persuaded her to sit for a picture. [11]
There is only one other view to take: that Mrs. Eddy did really foresee that there would be singers who would some day get tired of doing her hymns and proclaiming the authorship, unless persuaded by a Bylaw, with a penalty attached. [5]
But he persuaded old Tom, my father, not to bring this suit until after the political campaign, until Mr. Crewe gets through with his fireworks. [9]
They persuaded poor old Sawlsberry to go and charge it on him, and he went blustering over there and did it. [5]
She convinced him of what he already knew, and persuaded him against his knowledge that he could be keeping an eye out for something to take hold of in Boston if they could not stand New York. [8]
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]
In the course of this he had been compelled to be frank, and she now knew that Alba had persuaded her to change her residence at the King's desire, and why it was done. [10]
Yet she was obliged to go, on Anna's account, for her father could not be persuaded by letters to do anything. [10]
She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected within a few days. [2]
True, she could not be persuaded to make a frank confession, but he, Bias, would let his right hand wither if Hermon's companion at the Dionysia was any other than Althea. [10]
But she would not be persuaded to leave the house. [9]
The Bensons would not be persuaded out of their fixed plan to "take in," as Mr. Benson expressed it, the White Mountains. [4]
But I can not be persuaded against the evidence of my own eyes, and they light on many good and pleasant things. [10]
This last consideration no doubt persuaded the troops that Sigismund had "so honest a cause. [4]
One day great news came--the Orleans commissioners, with Yolande and our knights, had at last turned the council's position and persuaded the King to see Joan. [5]
I understood that my wife had persuaded him to extend his visit--a proposal he was little reluctant to fall in with, so interested had he become in studying social life in America. [4]
By dint of much beseeching the government had been persuaded to allow the association to use this lock. [5]
Those particular ants may be all that the naturalist paints them, but I am persuaded that the average ant is a sham. [5]
Above all, it looks as if we were on the way to be persuaded that no government can be carried on by declamation. [9]
There was a little performance there in which Mentor and I allowed ourselves to be persuaded to take part. [10]
There was a little party there, and, although she did not want to go, and you so sick, we persuaded her, she being young and needing the innocent pastimes of youth, and we believing you would approve. [5]
On the fighting line, when there was a lull, our backwoodsmen stood up behind their trees and cursed the enemy roundly, and often by these taunts persuaded the furious gunners to open their ports and fire their cannon. [9]
I have a letter from a Congressman this morning, and he says Congress couldn't be persuaded to bother about Canadian pirates at a time like this when all legislation must have a political and Presidential bearing, else Congress won't look at it. [5]
That is the kind of a review to have; the doubtful man; even the prejudiced man, is persuaded and succumbs. [5]
Later, when his just anger had cooled, perhaps he might be persuaded to aid the endangered house. [10]
I feel persuaded it can be accomplished, if the course to be pursued be chosen with judgment. [5]
Conductor Slum, who is too old a bird to be caught with chaff, courteously informed her that the car was full, and when she insisted on remaining, he persuaded her to go into the car where she belonged. [5]
She turned away in horror, and could not be persuaded to go near it again. [5]
With his establishment in Buffalo, Clemens, as already noted, had persuaded his sister, now a widow, and his mother, to settle in Fredonia, not far away. [5]
The question is, if the colored people are persuaded to go anywhere, why not there? [7]
Denisov was going home to Voronezh and Rostov persuaded him to travel with him as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. [2]
But although the Holy Father in Rome and other rulers had recognised the justice of these wishes, his royal brother could not be persuaded to grant his just demands, and destroyed these hopes with cruel coldness. [10]
Dryfoos also wanted his woman-cook to prepare the dinner, but Fulkerson persuaded him that this would not do; he must have it from a caterer. [8]

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