What is "wheedle"

Usage examples of "wheedle".

He bribed, begged, and wheedled drops of blood out of the fingers of hundreds of aguey East Indians.

Where the air is sweet and clean and breathable, and life blossoms everywhere on its own, without having to be wheedled and begged and cosseted .

Seeing the jerrican partly hidden inside his jacket, children wheedled at Ransom with empty cups.

She wheedled, her mouth making clicking sounds, but no deep sounds now that her oxy was gone.

Spital-fields blindfolded, and in so doing utterly negating his badinage about lost channels and collisions with lighters with which he had wheedled from me two poxy shillings.

She was tempted to recount the wheedling she had to employ on visits to New York and Philadelphia, scratching up writing assignments from railroaders, supplemented by loans from abolitionists sympathetic with the cause of keeping a score of black girls from the life the slavers had in store.

Stories had already reached him of Sterkarms wheedling aspirin out of his security guards and, once they had the tablets in their hands, immediately abandoning whatever deal had been agreed.

Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.

Harold, as the wife of an officer, was at liberty to take out a party of friends in one of the Academy launches, so she promptly got together a congenial dozen, Ralph, Happy, Shortie, Wheedles and Durand, Captain Pennell and four others besides Polly and herself, and in the crispness of the Indian Summer afternoon, steamed away up the Severn to Round Bay.

Ulubine Peregals, old men called Tlipeyn and Emoerte, trying to wheedle the Dwellers into being more cooperative.

Perhaps, she told herself, if the man who called himself Scates had only continued to wheedle or argue, nothing would have happened.

He spoke in a wheedling, kindly voice, for he and Mother Binning were good friends.

Because she wheedled John Dabb to offer you the running of Sunset Pass Ranch?

Vast flocks of birds of every description, most of them kinds she had never seen, ranged on the waters, clucking and wheedling and croaking and whistling each in their own tongue, and insects buzzed and chirred and in general made a nuisance of themselves.

Her curiosity had to be satisfied, and she and the four Maries could not be content until they had wheedled the secret from Lady Fleming.