Sentence example with the word 'cajoling'

cajoling

Last update: September 4, 2015


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He has sometimes been blamed for not crushing his incurably disloyal and rebellious nobles, instead of cajoling them, after the example of his contemporary, Louis XI., who laid the foundations of the greatness of France on the ruin of the vassals.   [Please select]

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General Sam at Ottawa was being snowed under by entreating, insistent, cajoling, threatening telegrams.   [Please select]

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Lifting its head, no less Cajoling a caress, Our winsome collie wraith, Than in glad faith.   [Please select]

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Then he tried cajoling and "connudling" and those silent, persuasive arts so often efficacious in legislative lobbies; but there were too many witnesses to his crime, and bribes were not in order.   [Please select]

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Plume, having failed in several professions, was bent now on elevating himself by the votes of the ignorant followers whom he was cajoling into taking him as a leader.   [Please select]

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