coax

His tulips are up ever so much higher than ours, and I asked him how he managed to coax them along so early.

"They coax me as if I were Vaska the cat!" said Denisov jokingly.

She knows her power, and she uses it too; but well knowing that to wheedle and coax is safer than to command, she judiciously tempers her despotism with flattery and blandishments enough to make him deem himself a favoured and a happy man.

If you really wish to accomplish anything by your journey, my dear Ozma, you must coax me."

While we sat in the kitchen waiting for the cookies to bake or the taffy to cool, Nina used to coax Antonia to tell her stories--about the calf that broke its leg, or how Yulka saved her little turkeys from drowning in the freshet, or about old Christmases and weddings in Bohemia.

"Ay, ay; you want to coax me into thinking him a fine match."

The only way to git him to do anything is to coax him to do the opposite.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs at step at a time.

She talked to Elizabeth again and again; coaxed and threatened her by turns.

"But do let her go, Jacky," coaxed his poor witless wife.

Without waiting to be coaxed, the doctor's two companions stretched themselves at the bottom of the car and dropped into profound slumber on the instant.

"We knew up front that classrooms in the new building would need cable television," Tyler says, "but instead of coax we designed a cable plan using CAT 5 for voice, video and data that lets us provide cable TV at very little additional cost.