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Sometimes 'twould crack clean through ef 'twarnt for the ile In his new position John is apt "to go in shaller cracks all over," unless his feminine trainer has been judicious in the use of lubricants--assuasive and dissuasive.— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
With smiles assuasive LOVE DIVINE invites,— The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
Affection's meek, assuasive tongue,— Poems
Music her soft, assuasive voice applies;— The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
The medicine, whatever it might be, had the merit, rare in doctor's stuff, of being pleasant to take, assuasive of thirst, and imbued with a hardly perceptible fragrance, that was so ethereal that it also seemed to enter into his dream and modify it.— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
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