entreeted

Updated: June 20, 2025

All the koketting with the Democrats, Republicans, Prohibitionists, and Labor Reformers in the offis of the Woman's Journal, last summer, don't amount to shucks. Prominent politicians had entreeted her to go slow and not mash things. I can only say," said Mrs. L., "as John Bunyan once said: 'When woman will, she will. And you can jest bet on't; When she won't, she won't, And there's an end on't."

Various - Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 30, October 22, 1870