coaxing-party

Updated: June 17, 2025

Then we scattered bits of the broken bales of their prepared food, along the runway, to lure them ... a few were led aboard thus. But the captain cried with oaths that they didn't have time to make a coaxing-party of the job.... At last the donkey-engine was started, forward.

Harry Kemp - Tramping on Life: An Autobiographical Narrative