Do not try to wheedle the information out of me by using flattery. From LearnThat.org.
The old starman's voice became an insidious wheedle. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Bosporus, but failed to wheedle all who came near his throne. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
You know I can just wheedle father round my wee finger, can't I?. From Wordnik.com. [The Drone A Play in Three Acts] Reference
How could he threaten or bribe or wheedle Olaghi into granting a pardon?. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
'Now, mother, my mind's made up, and you won't wheedle me in this matter. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Others came with the intention to wheedle the receipt from the shop-woman. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
I ` ve got an hour to work with you, to see what I can wheedle out of you. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 01, 2006] Reference
I could whine and wheedle and plead but what I have already said is enough. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
Whether they were for it or against it, she could wheedle money out of them. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Lucy Somerville Howorth, June 20, 22, and 23, 1975. Interview G-0028. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Was this the solution Planchon had, in some sense, come to wheedle out of him?. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Saturday Caller]
He came to see me; an 'he thocht he could wheedle me aboot the organ i' the hoose. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
A fellow might wheedle until he fell over, and you'd still be as hard as adamant. From Wordnik.com. [The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight] Reference
Damon tried to wheedle me into letting him buy a CD with a parental advisory label. From Wordnik.com. [Mary, Mary]
He will shave, wheedle, compromise and cajole until he finds-or creates-common ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Promiscuity] Reference
So, Voldemort had managed to wheedle the location of the lost diadem out of the Gray Lady. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]
"You can't wheedle any news out of me, my dear," announced Doctor Hugh, his eyes twinkling. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
But for anything resembling thrills, one had to wheedle oneself into a post-Oscar party or two. From Wordnik.com. [This Year's Oscarzzzz] Reference
Divining him darkly, she went to work with such arts as she had to wheedle the worst out of him. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Annalou cried in her dreadful monotone, using her heavenly shape to wheedle a way through the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
I will at once seek an interview and endeavour to wheedle him out of a promise to make a codicil in my favor. From Wordnik.com. [Vellenaux A Novel] Reference
It was a proverb among them that one ought to wheedle the gold out of the German simpletons as much as one could. '. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
He once attempted to wheedle Lucas into painting at least all of the front of the house, but Lucas was not to be moved. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
Besides, he was a favourite with Brother Petrus, the abbot's cook, and might be able to wheedle something out of him later. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
Young! why, you jade, as the saying is, can any woman wheedle that is not young? your mother was useless at five-and-twenty. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
Out in the Hamptons, we tried -- and sort of succeeded -- to wheedle information out of a freshly divorced Christie Brinkley. From Wordnik.com. [Transom Year in Review 2008: Parties, Fashion Shows, and Tom Wolfe on Hip-Hop] Reference
That day, for example, after seeing Asquith, the First Lord set himself to charm, wheedle, and bludgeon Fisher back into harness. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
Under her doting tutelage, the precocious boy had learned early how to wheedle his way out of a scolding with a show of penitence. From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
If there will be a fee, I can't, unless I can get ahold of my parents and wheedle money out of them, which so far, no luck at all. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
Maryland's role in this farce is the latest proof that government often is the servant of those strong enough to wheedle it cleverly. From Wordnik.com. [Modell Sacks Maryland] Reference
She set herself to mothering him and shielding him from his father's impatience — she could always wheedle him with her sunny ways. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
She must not let him wheedle compliance out of her 'for a pair of reechy kisses', or 'paddling in your neck with his damned fingers'. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
'That' ooman 'ould wheedle the stone out of a mill,' continued the farmer, rubbing his eyes, and deliberately taking off his night-cap. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
He did not want to say more, but Josephine had not had a brother all her life without learning how to wheedle out reluctant information. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
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