36 collocations for wheedles

It seems to me a dirty business to make up to women in order to wheedle out their secrets.

You insulted her, telling her she belonged to a family of beggars, and that none of them could wheedle your money away from you!"

Besides, her action in the play was gross,wheedling an old man into marriage.

" The words were spoken in a kindly, wheedling tone, and the girl's face broke into the prettiest of smiles.

"How you wheedled the authority out of my father, I don't know," she said.

Officers and Gyppies coaxed and wheedled the stubborn beasts through Julis, but outside the place the animals raised a chorus of protest and went down.

Religion wheedled us to civil war, Drew English blood, and Dutchmen's now would spare.

We went from hence to Grenoble, and arrived there the same day that the king and the cardinal with the whole court went out to view a body of 6000 Swiss foot, which the cardinal had wheedled the cantons to grant to the king to help to ruin their neighbour the Duke of Savoy.

Then she used her power and her coquetries to wheedle out of him one concession after another, including a promise by the King to return unopened any letters Madame de Mailly might send to him.

He wheedles a good deal out of the king, but what he does with it

Philip then subpoenaed Edward, as Duke of Guienne, to show cause why he should not pay damages for the loss of the navy, which could not be replaced for less than twenty pounds, and finally wheedled Edward out of the duchy.

She wheedled the firm into giving me a vacation, and now they're to pay me twelve a week instead of ten.

"Ye better let me look at 'em Pros," wheedled Pap Himes.

Before I came away I heard from Catrina that he had wheedled an invitation to Thors out of the old lady.

" "Ah now, ye might stay one day longer and try your luck," wheedled the Irishman.

When seventy-eight years of age, he wheedled Madame Jumel, an eccentric and wealthy widow, into a marriage.

" "Oh no, you haven't," wheedled Aunt Kate.

But Cordelia, disgusted with the flattery of her sisters, whose hearts she knew were far from their lips, and seeing that all their coaxing speeches were only intended to wheedle the old king out of his dominions, that they and their husbands might reign in his life-time, made no other reply but this, that she loved his majesty according to her duty, neither more nor less.

Ashton quotes the following from the "Gaming Lady": "She's a profuse lady, tho' of a miserly temper, whose covetous disposition is the very cause of her extravagancy; for the desire of success wheedles her ladyship to play, and the incident charges and disappointments that attend it make her as expensive to her husband as his coach and six horses.

Of course it would be impossible for her to wheedle McGuire and Hastings into letting her have a horse, but if she should Here Hervey abruptly turned his thoughts in a new direction.

" With her dry hands, which were used to handling goods of this description, she caught up the child, perhaps, however, a little roughly, forgetting her assumed wheedling good nature now that she was simply charged with conveying it to hospital.

They seemed abler bargainers than the men, and the play of expression on their dramatic and intensely feminine faces as they wheedled the price of a calf out of a fierce hillsman, or haggled over a heap of dates that a Jew with greasy ringlets was trying to secure for his secret distillery, showed that they knew their superiority and enjoyed it.

"Come along then, Menace," wheedled the Second.

" Aretino's real object was to wheedle some priceless sketch or drawing out of the great master.

Being a skilful horsewoman, she came on horseback, accompanied by a little band of feminine charmers destined to wheedle political secrets from friends and enemies alikea real "flying squadron of the queen," as it was called by a contemporary.

36 collocations for  wheedles