Sám, before he took leave to return to his own government at Zábul, tried to dissuade him from this violent exercise of revenge, but without making any sensible impression upon him.

The Delaware chiefs immediately visited the prophet to dissuade him from commencing hostilities and were grossly insulted.

With great courage and with the noblest intentions, though with extraordinary want of tact, for he was only in his twenty-sixth year, he had presumed to dissuade Queen Elizabeth from marrying the Duke of Anjou.

To those who sought to dissuade him, he objected the distrust with which he had been treated, and the insult which had been offered to him by the authority intrusted to Waller.

In vain did the major endeavour to dissuade these reckless men from their purpose.

And, although Savoisy did all he could to dissuade him, the King insisted, and ordered that it should be done.

They tried to dissuade her; she grew angry, and struggled so hard to rise, that it seemed best to humour her once more.

Carme tries in vain to dissuade the girl, and must, to calm her, promise to aid her if all other means fail.

The speaker who is trying to dissuade his hearers from some course of action, has a twofold division of his labour.

And so, the speaker who is trying to persuade must establish both these points; the one whose object it is to dissuade, may be content with invalidating either.

The best plan in such cases is to speak to the old man firmly, but courteously, asking him to try to dissuade his son from his dangerous practices.

"I tried to dissuade her.

Viewing the subject in this light, I not only determined that I would have no share in their occupation myself, but thought I could not do less, in return for the benefits I had received from them, than endeavour to dissuade them from an employment in which they must themselves be the greatest sufferers.

He, however, destroyed these anonymous communications one after the other, and was rewarded by a note hastily written by the President de Thou, in which he was entreated to disregard the efforts which were made to dissuade him from entering Paris, where the Queen was prepared to receive him with all possible honour and welcome.

Nor did either Concini or his wife, although their own fortunes were involved in her retirement, venture to dissuade her from her purpose, the threats of the disaffected nobles against themselves having convinced them that they had little mercy to expect at their hands should they still further urge the Queen to aggressive measures.

" Surprised and gratified by the nobility of soul manifested in these words, Friend Hopper said no more to dissuade him from his generous purpose.

He tried to dissuade her; for he considered the project extremely dangerous, and well nigh hopeless.

O child, let not the texts of the Veda, nor the opinions of men dissuade thy mind from the desire of dying at Prayaga.

And all the assembled gods came to Vindhya, the mighty king of mountains, and tried to dissuade him from his course.

His brother, finding that he could not dissuade him, cautioned him against the dangers of the road; he must pass by the large grape-vine and the frog's eggs that he would come across.

An effort was made to dissuade him; and "several prelates and barons of France told him that he was committing great folly when he was minded to again put himself in danger from the King of England.

"To dissuade you all from drawing out on me," he explained, stroking his mustache with deliberate care.

In vain her powerful friends, Tallien and Barras, endeavored to dissuade her from marrying this young, penniless general; in vain did they remind her that he might be killed in the very next battle, and that she might thus again be left a reduced widow.

If I called, my hosts would try to dissuade me, and I would not listen.

The law had never been broken, except once;but there his memories waxed dim and indistinct; he was at the mercy of his own volition, which resolved on recalling nothing that could dissuade him from his rash and forbidden longing.