But this was a fact which Wanhope was not obliged to note to us, and there were certain other commonplaces of our knowledge of Alford which he could omit without omitting anything essential to our understanding of the facts which he dealt with so delicately, so electly, almost affectionately, coaxing each point into the fittest light, and then lifting his phrase from it, and letting it stand alone in our consciousness.

And some day when Jellicoe and his men are coaxed ashore, they will drop in to drink a glass of beer, and thenpouf!

There is besides a story, that Hannibal, when about nine years old, while he boyishly coaxed his father Hamilcar that he might be taken to Spain, (at the time when the African war was completed, and he was employed in sacrificing previously to transporting his army thither,) was conducted to the altar; and, having laid his hand on the offerings, was bound by an oath to prove himself, as soon as he could, an enemy to the Roman people.

" It was some time yet before they were quite ready to start, though Dolly could not be coaxed to eat the hot mince-pie, or anything else.

In the last resort, when he was driven to bay, he offered to resign, and was invariably coaxed back by the final arbiter.

But the caribou were coming, coaxed along marvelously by the cubs and the old mother; and the great silent wolf, that had left the pack playing with the game while he circled the barren at top speed, now turned to the business in hand with no thought nor fear of harm from the two children whom he had watched but yesterday.

Quick as a flash, with her simple intuition, she felt that he had said this merely to coax from her some sign of sympathy or love.

And oft did I coax her and say vague things of comfort, as I have told.

Well, I took a fancy to let Margaret try him, as nobody would know him in the gallery and he coaxed so prettily to go.

"Miss Morgan," he repeated, and then coaxed sheepishly, "can't Bud go to the show with us, Miss Morgan?"

In childhood, youth, manhood, and old age, this is the great charm of life; and even the vitiated appetite is not unfrequently coaxed into amendment by its very delightful character when contrasted with coarser enjoyments.

Then I vainly coaxed her to walk with me at her husband's side.

She thought she could illustrate with some spirit the latent coquetry of the imprisoned beauty; she believed, notwithstanding the fashion in which the story measured out their speech in rations,always an appropriate bit, and just so much of it to each,that the gay Zorayda must have had the principal hand in their affairs; must have put the others up to mischief, and coaxed most winningly the discreet Kadiga.