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Parker, meanwhile, had wheedled $50,000 from investors, and the pair moved to California.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2013

These he said he had wheedled from the Sultan of Java.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You know how it is,” Doc Daneeka had wheedled, with a sly, conspiratorial wink.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Dot's new dresses were all finished; and Twaddles had wheedled his father into allowing him to take along an empty bird-cage which took up a great deal of room and was utterly useless.

From Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island by Hawley, Mabel C.

A minute later and I had wheedled it round the baluster I could clutch.

From The Brother of Daphne by Yates, Dornford