jollying

• “He had been what he would have termed jollying her back to normality again.”

  Dangerous Days

• “Pausert had been looking at the words in the air, and tried to put on a "jollying" tone.”

  The Wizard Of Karres

• “When I was not with the largest party, which always occupied the parlor containing the piano, I was flitting from room to room, "jollying" men who were waiting for some particular girl to become disengaged.”

  Madeleine: An Autobiography

• “The Doc did give him something, and between that and a little judicious "jollying" Kipple was a different man in a few days.”

  On the Fringe of the Great Fight

• “Some salesmen try to supplement this power -- or supply the lack of a pleasing personality -- by "jollying" the possible customer in various ways.”

  Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business

• “He was a very small man, with pink cheeks and eye-glasses, beautifully made and still more beautifully dressed; and for all their boisterous "jollying" his auditors appeared rather to like him than the contrary.”

  Captivating Mary Carstairs

• “His promise, in a letter of March 1, 1802, that if he should write a second 'Maid of Orleans', Goeschen should publish it, is only an author's playful 'jollying' of a friendly publisher.”

  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

• “To the newspaper man, Bob was a godsend; for humour was scarce on board, and "jollying" Bob was a welcome diversion.”

  Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War

• “The methods which children characterize as "jollying" are best for such emergencies.”

  The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

• “His promise, in a letter of March 1, 1802, that _if_ he should write a second 'Maid of Orleans', Göschen should publish it, is only an author's playful 'jollying' of a friendly publisher.”

  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

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