1 No argument or persuasion could ever induce him to set up a female establishment after the manner of his companions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 2 So, after some persuasion, Clifford allowed her to go.
3 Venerable men of his own persuasion had come to pray beside him, but he had driven them away with curses.
4 If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk.
5 I had a persuasion that if I could enter those doors and carry a blaze of light before me I should discover the Time Machine and escape.
6 I had a persuasion that I should be supposed mad, and this in itself would forever have chained my tongue.
7 And drawing him a little aside, she whispered her persuasion that Lucy could not stay much longer.
8 I therefore pleaded another engagement; and observing that Mrs. Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES 9 Ham yielded to this persuasion, and took his hat to go.
10 Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings.
11 My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
12 Elizabeth was determined; nor did Sir William at all shake her purpose by his attempt at persuasion.
13 His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility and even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.
14 Her husband and children were her entire world, and in these she ruled more by entreaty and persuasion than by command or argument.
15 The old men of the company, partly by persuasion and partly by force, loosed the poor creature's last despairing hold, and, as they led her off to her new master's wagon, strove to comfort her.