Imagine to yourselves a little, fat man, much wider than he was long, round and shiny as a ball of butter, with a face beaming like an apple, a little mouth that always smiled, and a voice small and wheedling like that of a cat begging for food.
With bows and smiles, he asked in a wheedling tone:
But as to frightening or bullying, or even
wheedling some sort of answer out of Mr.
On the contrary, he was masterful in whatever he did, but he had a trick of whimsical
wheedling that Dede found harder to resist than the pleas of a suppliant lover.
"It is folly to threaten me, but I'm so kind-hearted that I cannot stand coaxing or
wheedling. If you really wish to accomplish anything by your journey, my dear Ozma, you must coax me."
And they enslaved you over again - but not frankly, as the true, noble men would do with weight of their own right arms, but secretly, by spidery machinations and by
wheedling and cajolery and lies.
It is a roundabout
wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with.
Tom's mother entered now, closing the door behind her, and approached her son with all the
wheedling and supplication servilities that fear and interest can impart to the words and attitudes of the born slave.
"No matter," said D'Artagnan, in his most
wheedling tone.
Moreover, she was barely civil to them, and evidently better pleased to say 'good-by,' than 'how do you do.' But Eliza Millward says her father intends to call upon her soon, to offer some pastoral advice, which he fears she needs, as, though she is known to have entered the neighbourhood early last week, she did not make her appearance at church on Sunday; and she - Eliza, that is - will beg to accompany him, and is sure she can succeed in
wheedling something out of her - you know, Gilbert, she can do anything.
"WE'RE getting there" was the slightly
wheedling slogan of British Rail adverts in the late 1980s.
I can't for the life of me recall what I handed over to my daughters when they were growing up but then daughters perfect the knack of
wheedling money from an early age.