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"Joanna was another sort of person, and perhaps he showed good judgment in marryin' somebody else, if only he'd behaved straight-forward and manly. He was a shifty-eyed, coaxin' sort of man, that got what he wanted out o' folks, an' only gave when he wanted to buy, made friends easy and lost 'em without knowin' the difference.
She’s more gentle-like and comes coaxin’ round me, and puttin’ her soft arms round my old shaggy neck says, ’Please, pa, if I’ll learn to make a nice pudding or pie of Aunt Judy, will you buy us a new looking-glass or rocking chair?’ And then ’tisn’t in my natur to refuse.
I got mo' winning ways wid chilluns dan what you is. "Brer Wolf say, 'You can't make gourd out'n punkin, Brer Fox. I ain't no talker. Yo' tongue lots slicker dan mine. I kin bite lots better'n I kin talk. Dem little Rabs don't want no coaxin'; dey wants ketchin' dat what dey wants. You keep ole Brer Rabbit busy, en I'll ten' der de little Rabs.
Jim Spriggins goes without any coaxin' and if it w'ant that I can't get away from Melindy I'd go too." "Your brother volunteered, I suppose," ventured Mrs. Arnold, with an air of interest. "Indeed he did, ma'am, he and another fellar from the Crossin', and I brought 'em down." Mr.
"Be the crass, Phelim, darlin', jewel, I'll be as kind a wife as ever breathed. Arrah, Phelim, won't you come down to-morrow evenin'? There'll be no one at home but myself, an' ha, ha, ha! Oh, you coaxin' rogue! But, Phelim, you musn't be Oh, you're a rogue! I see you laughin'! Will you come darlin?" "Surely. But, death alive!
"In that case, the girls must certainly buy something," added Purcel. "But we've no money, papa." "But," replied the pedlar, "you have what's betther good credit with the Cannie Soogah och, upon my profits I'd rather have one sweet coaxin' smile from that purty little mouth of yours, Miss Julia, than money in hand any day! Ah!
She had smooth brown hair as smooth as silk-an' a pair iv soft coaxin' eyes an' the whitest little teeth you ever seen; an', bedad, she was every taste as much in love wid himself as he was. Well, now, he was raly stupid wid love: there was not a bit of fun left in him.
God send we'll all be in glory yet, says the wife, crassin' herself; 'but go to sleep, Thady, for this present. 'I'll sleep with the brave yit, says he. 'Indeed, an' a brave sleep will do you a power o' good, my darlin','says she. 'And it's I that will be the knight! says he. 'All night, if you plaze, Thady, says she. 'None o' your coaxin','says he.
There was the divil's own uproar, as a battle was comin' on; and a long line of spears clashed. But just then there whistled through the larrup of sound a clear voice callin', gentle and coaxin', yet commandin' too; and the spears dropped, and the pounding of horsehoofs ceased, and then the army marched away; far away; iver so far away, into " "Into Heaven!" flippantly interjected Lazenby.
"'Bryan, said I, 'I scorn a moral circumbendibus where the direct truth is necessary; I have heard it said, and I fear it is burthened wid too much uncomfortable veracity, that Kathleen Cavanagh has donned the black cap* in doing the judicial upon you, and that she considers her sentence equal to the laws of the Medes and Persians, unchangeable or, like those of our own blessed church wid reverence be the analogy made altogether infallible. His eye blazed as I spoke; he caught me where by the collar wid a grip that made me quake 'Another word against Kathleen Cavanagh, he replied, 'and I will shake every joint of your carcass out of its place. His little sister, Dora, was wid him at the time; 'Give him a shake or two as it is, she added, egging him on, 'for what he has said already; throth she's a lively little lady that, an' if it wasn't that she has a pair of dark shining eyes, and sweet features ay, and as coaxin' a figure of her own however, sorra may care, somehow, I defy any one to, be angry wid her."
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