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After a hard struggle and repeated efforts, we at last succeeded in persuading the Turks to give up this demand. The second Turkish objection was that Russia had not sufficiently clearly declared its intention of refraining from all interference in internal affairs.

He was persuading his mother to join in his criminal career. He was busy with his oily tongue transforming the simple, ignorant, lonely old woman into an avaricious fiend who would receive his blood-stained booty and rejoice in it. He was laughing again. She put her trembling hands over her ears to shut out the sound. He had laughed at her shame and cowardice. It made her flesh creep to hear it.

Thompson's "Society Gymnastics," but these are all that you will need for at least one week, especially if you have to devote many hours to the task of persuading the society young lady not to leave your class unto you desolate. "Left wheel into line!" and they wheel and obey. Tennyson.

It sounded from a small grove of trees not far from them, and Réné instantly recognized it as the explosion of a fire-arm. As it had been followed by a loud cry of pain, and as groans were still to be heard, he succeeded in convincing his companions that the terrifying sound was of human origin, and in persuading them to go with him in search of its cause.

"Knows Friedrich; might perhaps have some power in persuading him, power in spying him at any rate. Unless Friedrich do step forward again, what is to become of us!"

It is amazing to me that this person should have assurance, in the face of the sun, to go about persuading your Highness that our age is almost wholly illiterate and has hardly produced one writer upon any subject.

Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon. There till Mr. Fairebrother came to call us out to my father's to supper. He told me how he had perfectly procured me to be made Master in Arts by proxy, which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin Roger Pepys was the other day persuading me from it. While we were at supper came Win.

I appeal to you, because you, I know, are intimate with the class among whom she must be sought." "There may be some difficulty in persuading a lady of the required qualifications to accept the situation," says Cathcart, with a touch of malice. "I want you to find one who will," says John Ingerfield.

McKeon, a prudent woman, unwilling to comply with the priest's wishes though indeed it was not often that she contradicted him in anything; then, after he had talked Mrs. McKeon over, when he had aroused her charitable feelings and excited the good nature, which, to tell the truth, was never very dormant in her bosom, he had the more difficult task of persuading Feemy to accept the invitation.

"Leave me to my fate: Mr Deane will protect you better than I can, and you are not bound either to that unhappy man my husband or to me." Deane had now some difficulty in persuading Elizabeth to return with him, for she was unwilling to leave poor Mistress Pearson to the danger to which she would be exposed should the village be stormed, as it was too likely to be.