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Many times he would approach a patient and wheedle his great head under the patient's hand.

Instantly there flashes to mind the image of a carpet salesman in the Istanbul bazaar trying to wheedle me into his stall.

Bumper looked in Jimsy's and Wheedle's eyes, and saw they were pink, but he was still doubtful.

They knew all the secrets of the ogress, and how to wheedle and coax her.

Maud believes that she can marry Clyde, and come back and wheedle me into taking them both into my good graces.

I thought it would be an easy matter to wheedle my doting uncle into taking us both back.

How Gipsy managed to wheedle the cook nobody ever discovered, but she returned in a short time triumphantly carrying a tray.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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