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How Old Gripper can swallow him is more than I can understand, and Gripper has inveigled Warren Hatch and Sudbury Bragg into it.

From Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win by Standish, Burt L.

My idea is that he has inveigled himself with some woman that he wishes to get rid of and finds it difficult.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle

He's a counselor-at-law, he is; and he has inveigled a boy into his keeping, who, he supposes, has a claim on me; and he proposes to make some money out of it.

From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)

"Do what I told you, Jake," he said, with the smile of a man who has inveigled friends into accepting over-expensive Christmas presents.

From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin

“Mrs Glaire,” said the vicar, sternly, “do you believe that your son has inveigled away that poor girl?”

From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville