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Usage examples of dissuade.

La Vauguyon, a plump and personable young man whom Adams genuinely liked, spent the next several hours trying to dissuade him, urging that at the least he wait for an opinion from Vergennes.

I dissuaded a lady from attending the marriage of a sister who had seceded from the Anglican Church.

Appius Claudius, because he had dissuaded the law, and now with greater authority blamed the issue of a measure which had been found fault with by himself, the consul Servilius appoints dictator by the general wish of the patricians, and a levy and cessation of business are procaimed.

On the third day, Tancred rose from his couch, and would even have quitted the tent, had not Baroni dissuaded him.

The dictates of true policy dissuaded her from contributing to her further conquest in that kingdom, which would have proved the source of contention among the allies, depressed the house of Bourbon below the standard of importance which the balance of Europe required it should maintain, and aggrandize the states-general at the expense of Great Britain.

I may tell you that the poor fellow is furious, and intends making you a visit, from which course I believe I have no right to dissuade him.

If he had known what Ralph intended at this moment, he would have tried to dissuade him, but after having put the case against it, he would then have gone ahead and drawn up a contract as mercilessly as he would have elevated his jasz and men el for a winning coup at kalabriasz.

Honour, that Sophia had a violent inclination to Jones, she conceived that to dissuade her from the match was an endeavour of the same kind, as it would be very heartily and earnestly to entreat a moth not to fly into a candle.

Emily remembered all that Valancourt had told her, on the eve of her departure from Languedoc, respecting Montoni, and all that he had said to dissuade her from venturing on the journey.

Early in 1951, before she joined Wiener in Europe, and before the new neurophysiology lab was established, Margaret made a private visit to Jerome Wiesner at the RLE in an effort to dissuade him from bringing McCulloch and his entourage to Tech.

One of them, Schiller Mann, is noted for not only dissuading Merced during his early years, but also for having nearly dissuaded the mathematician Udo Raleigh, who made major contributions to topological statistics, from a career in mathematics.

Caroline Abbott had the greatest difficulty in dissuading her from the Riviera.

The bardlings amusement faded as he realized those being dissuaded included two who might well hold the key to the Truth.

It seemed as though Lady Cres swell was content to idle her days away now that she had had an outing or two, and as the following day was more than usually warm, she was content to sit in a shady corner of the garden, reading and gossiping and amusing herself with the animals, and on the day after that, although she expressed a wish to drive up into the mountains, Judith was able to dissuade her without much trouble.

The maiden dares not openly disclose her whole desire because she is greatly afeard that Thessala may blame and dissuade her.