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Instances of like nature are Minos and king Numa, both which fooled the people into obedience by a mere cheat and juggle; the first by pretending he was advised by Jupiter, the latter by making the vulgar believe he had the goddess AEgeria assistant to him in all debates and transactions. And indeed it is by such wheedles that the common people are best gulled, and imposed upon.
Says you, 'I can! And in that you lie, like your mother before you. Bless your wisdom" Mother Cockleshell made an ironical curtsey. "Age must bow before a brat." "Beauty draws money to the Romans, and wheedles the Gorgios to part with red gold. Wrinkles you have, mother, and weak wits to " "Weak wits, you drab? My weakest wits are your strongest.
Happy, Wheedles, and Shortie had graduated and would have a month's leave. Durand was now a second-classman, Ralph a youngster, and about to start upon the summer practice cruise. The ships were to run down to Hampton Roads and then up to New London, where Mrs. Harold and all her party were to meet them, she and Mrs.
He had "intimation that the Governor's generosity in pardoning him and restoring him to his place in the Council were no other than previous wheedles to amuse him." In Jamestown lived one whom a chronicler paints for us as "thoughtful Mr. Lawrence."
"A tramp that wheedles money out of low-lives; before he used to belong to the pote, the kind that visit houses on Sundays, knock, and when they see nobody's home, stick their jimmy into the lock and zip!... But he hasn't the courage even for this, 'cause his liver is whiter than paper."
"This is really much better than being cooped up in the old woman's backyard," he reflected. "Not even Jimsy or Wheedles ever dreamed of such adventures as I've had. My! I feel like a great traveler already." But when the current of the river began to draw his raft away from the shore into the middle, his enthusiasm was not quite so great.
I dreamt of them last night." "Then," laughing at him, "find the answers to them in your dreams to-night." The next day Bumper had his turn, and then again the following day, but each time he returned home unsold. Jimsy was bought by a little boy, and triumphantly carried off, and Wheedles was captured by a girl.
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