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  • Persuasively urged, Rose had said, but I'll bet he'd never envisaged the likes of this - by George, his randy staff men wouldn't have been able to believe their eyes.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Persuasively threatening cataclysmic doom is one of the cheap thrills of my job.

    Beach Road Patterson, James, 1947- 2006

  • Persuasively written by David Arata and intelligently directed by Jonathan Kaplan, who guided Jodie Foster to an Oscar in The Accused, it's a gripping cautionary tale of innocents abroad in the same vein as Midnight Express and the more recent Return to Paradise.

    Innocents Abroad ��� Judith Ivey, Summer Thriller 1999

  • Persuasively she began kissing him, lightly, tantalizing, until his mouth was not quite so stiff beneath hers.

    The Master Fiddler Dailey, Janet, 1944- 1977

  • Persuasively she began kissing him, lightly, tantalizing, until his mouth was not quite so stiff beneath hers.

    The Master Fiddler Dailey, Janet, 1944- 1977

  • Persuasively urged, Rose had said, but I'll bet he'd never envisaged the likes of this — by George, his randy staff men wouldn't have been able to believe their eyes.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Persuasively urged, Rose had said, but I'll bet he'd never envisaged the likes of this - by George, his randy staff men wouldn't have been able to believe their eyes.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Persuasively Lance placed his arm around his sister.

    The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest Margaret Vandercook

  • Persuasively, "You weren't thinking of me -- were you?"

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

  • [Persuasively drawing his chair nearer to her] Listen to me,

    Getting Married George Bernard Shaw 1903

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