"Coaxingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... follow the advice of Mr. Williams and buy some shares of stock?" asked Selma lightly, yet coaxingly, of her husband one day in the third year of their marriage. The Williamses were dining with them at the time, and a statement by Gregory, not altogether without motive, as to the profits made by several people who had taken his advice, called forth ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... bit just now, if you would, my laddie," said the old lady coaxingly; "these bits of cloth want tearing into lengths, and if you get 'em ready, I can go on knitting. There'll be some food when this ...
— The Brownies and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... the door and opened it for her. "You keep your spirits up," he said coaxingly. "Don't you go and be unhappy, Deleah." He was passing through the door with her, whispering cheery words, but his ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... put up your sword!" exclaimed Bigot, coaxingly; "we have better game to bring down to-night than the Golden Dog. Hark! They are coming! Open wide the doors, and let the ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... cloak, beloved," said she, coaxingly, laying her hand on the soft brown curls that seemed to hang limply now that Naomi never tossed them back with a proud little shake of the head. "Before the door stand thy aunt, thy father, and thy brother. They wait for thee. And, little Naomi, there ...
— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips
... and moved one hand gently over the other, which was her way when embarrassed. "What was it, my own mother?" said I, coaxingly. ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... say anything until I have finished?" she began coaxingly. "For you see it is to explain why I want to stay with you that made me write to ask you to make this engagement with me for ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World • Margaret Vandercook
... to daze her for a moment. "Not me, David," she said softly, as if correcting him. "You don't mean that it is me?" she said coaxingly. "David," she cried, "say ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie
... coaxingly, "I know you are a good-natured little thing, and I don't believe you would do me a bad turn. You know the governor is always down upon me, won't let me have a latch-key, and says I must be in by half-past ten. A fellow can't live without a little pleasure, and if the governor won't let me have ...
— Ruth Arnold - or, the Country Cousin • Lucy Byerley |
