Thesaurus / hard sell
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He couldn't sell them; he couldn't burn them; he was even compelled to insure them, to his intense disgust.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSHe thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONHowever this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYAnd it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTEven if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKThose four pictures—I would not sell those four Watteaus for one hundred thousand francs.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU"I congratulate you on your engagement," he said at last, looking up with a face that seemed to Bernard hard and unnatural.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESHere there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLOne whist table only is at work; General Pepper and three old hands of the same kidney are hard at it.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSYoung Lamb's big cigar has been out long ago; but he pulls hard at it, wholly unaware of the fact.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWORDS RELATED TO HARD SELL
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- promoting
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- putting pressure on
- requesting
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- soft-soaping
- soliciting
- soliciting votes
- splashing
- spotting
- swaying
- sweet-talking
- thumping
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