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For months he had been coaxing and begging his mother to invite his schoolfellows to the house and entertain them with games and plays and music, ending with a fine supper.

From Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird by Patterson, Virginia Sharpe

Grace Atherton, on the contrary, would be glad to do it; she had been coaxing his master these forty years, and had succeeded in winning him at last.

From Darkness and Daylight by Holmes, Mary Jane

I suspect him of letting out his belt a hole a day on this plethora of protein that I had been coaxing up the bean poles all the spring.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

In particular, he had been coaxing her into friendship with a wooden Japanese dragon which wound itself in awful yet most seductive coils all round the cabinet at the end of the room.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

She had been coaxing Lisbeth to go home.

From The Torch Bearer by Marquis, Reina Melcher