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Bella was in the hall, drawing aside the big curtains, and opening the front door. Little Jon said, wheedling, "Bella!" "Yes, Master Jon." "Do let's have tea under the oak tree when they come; I know they'd like it best." "You mean you'd like it best." Little Jon considered. "No, they would, to please me." Bella smiled.
No one should attempt to live on top of an adobe hill one mile from a small town which has been brought up on the Declaration of Independence, without previously taking a course in plain and fancy wheedling. This is the mature judgment of a lady who has tried it. Not even in California! When we first took possession of our hill-top early one June, nothing was farther from my thoughts.
"I want to go into Master Broussel's house, captain," replied Friquet, in that wheedling way the "gamins" of Paris know so well how to assume when necessary. "And on what floor does he live?" asked Comminges. "In the whole house," said Friquet; "the house belongs to him; he occupies the second floor when he works and descends to the first to take his meals; he must be at dinner now; it is noon."
There are only so many hours in the day. I go around "in circles" all winter; in summer I wish to invite my soul, and there isn't time for both. I think I am regarded by the people in the village as a mixture of recluse and curmudgeon, but who cares if they can live on a hill? One flaw there was in the picture, and that is where the first experiment in wheedling came in.
It isn't every woman would have done it," said Kelly the Postman. "Aw, we've mighty boys of women deese days we have dough," snuffled the constable, and then they all laughed together. Pete watched their wheedling, fawning, and whisking of the tail, and then he said, "Chut!
He had beautiful white hair, a very soft voice, and a welcoming, wheedling manner; he was extremely fluent and zealous in using the pious phraseology of the sect. My Father had never been very much attracted to him, but the man professed, and I think felt, an overwhelming admiration for my Father. Mr.
Tom's mother entered now, closing the door behind her, and approached her son with all the wheedling and supplication servilities that fear and interest can impart to the words and attitudes of the born slave.
Of course Dick Veneer had not mistaken the game that was going on. The schoolmaster meant to make Elsie jealous, and he had done it. That 's it: get her savage first, and then come wheedling round her, a sure trick, if he isn't headed off somehow.
As I most sovereignly hate this kind of artifice and strategem, I returned such thanks as were proper, but in a manner so reserved as to make him feel it, although this did not prevent him from wheedling me in two or three other letters until he had gathered all he wished to know.
It was dusk by the time he had his fire built. He had crouched over it for a half-hour, blowing it, coaxing it, wheedling it. There were few twigs or sticks at this height. He was very cold. His heavy sweater was in the pack on the horse's back. Finally he was rewarded with a feeble flicker, a tiny tongue of flame.
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