Example Sentences

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"Well," with a twinkling smile, "just now I am persuading Adelina to sing at my benefit."

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

I am persuading my guests to pass on there.

From Ziska by Corelli, Marie

Your sister shall tell it, my dear," answered that good woman, "while I am persuading your father to sup with us.

From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Yet here was fought a battle of some interest to Englishmen: and I am persuading farmers to weed well the corn that grows over those who died there. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis

And as it were, I am holding a revival—I am persuading the negro and the white man as well to kneel under the cross.

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival