My own Nathaniel now—the only way to get him to do anything was to coax him to do the opposite.
Then if you'll let her go to Milltown with the Cobbs on Wednesday, that'll hearten her up a little and coax back her appetite.
Nothing seemed to flourish on this exposed height except bracken, sheep, and boulders that, from a distance, resembled sheep; there was no tree, scarcely a shrub; the immense contours, stark, grim, and unrelieved, rose in melancholy and defiant majesty against the sky: the hand of man could coax no harvest from these smooth but obdurate slopes; they had never relented, and they would never relent.
He knows all its tricks and aptitudes; when to coax and when to force it, when to rely on it and when to distrust it.
Don't think to coax me between you.
His tulips are up ever so much higher than ours, and I asked him how he managed to coax them along so early.
The little monkey had crept by the skylight of one garret, along the roof, into the skylight of the other, and it was with the utmost difficulty I could coax her out again.
" he added, pinching the dimpled chin fondly,—"to coax some more sovereigns out of my pocket for your bazaar?
" "Ay, ay; you want to coax me into thinking him a fine match.
" The miller and his wife often tried to coax from Aglaia the source of this mysterious name, but without results.
You can't coax him to cross a little branch stream two feet wide.
May you coax" class="hjdict" word="coax" target=_blank>coax your aging body along so it can share all the love you possibly can in this life.
He was able to use a simple offer of Chinese takeout to help coax a man out of his apartment bedroom, where he was reportedly threatening to cut his own throat with a knife on Saturday.
The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow men,Will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax the sun again.
The workplaces are designed to coax people to change their behavior.
For one, warmer winters and yo-yo winters (periods of cold sprinkled with periods of unseasonable warmth) in the Northeast have shortened the "sugaring season" — the period when temperatures are mild enough to coax trees to turn stored-up starches into sugar sap, but not warm enough to trigger budding.
For one, warmer winters and yo-yo winters (periods of cold sprinkled with periods of unseasonable warmth) in the Northeast have shortened the "sugaring season" — the period when temperatures are mild enough to coax trees to turn stored-up starches into sugar sap, but not warm enough to trigger budding.
The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow men, Will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax the Sun again.
Ideally, we're trying to coax as many tasty organic molecules from the roasted bean, which has been ground into tiny bits.
Bowie was "in a very dark place" (it was shortly after he had had a heart attack onstage in Berlin), and a mutual friend, the English producer Robert Fox, was trying to coax him back to a creative life.
