His comrades cheered him on, Mole coaxed and encouraged him, and the Rat went so far as to take him by the shoulders and shake him; but nothing could overcome his stage-fright.
They were eloquent in their distress; but they presently discovered that the fire had eaten so far up under the great log it had been built against (where it curved upward and separated itself from the ground), that a handbreadth or so of it had escaped wetting; so they patiently wrought until, with shreds and bark gathered from the under sides of sheltered logs, they coaxed the fire to burn again.
"To find your mother," she coaxed.
But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion , and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.
Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday.
But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.
Psychologists have since demonstrated that young children, asked to count the pencils in a pile, readily report the number of blue or red pencils, but must be coaxed into finding the total.
And every year, his eyes betrayed him and we coaxed the goods out of him.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Errol Flynn (1909 - 1959) Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
" These were fastened on the reindeer, and then the little robber-maiden opened the door, coaxed in all the great dogs, and then cut the string with which the reindeer was fastened, with her sharp knife, and said, "Now run, but mind you take good care of the little girl.