Sentence Examples

1. Just at this moment Sancho came up, and on seeing the pair in such a costume he was unable to restrain his laughter the barber, however, agreed to do as the curate wished, and, altering their plan, the curate went on to instruct him how to play his part and what to say to Don Quixote to induce and compel him to come with them and give up his fancy for the place he had chosen for his idle penance.
2. The term for which Edmond had engaged to serve on board La Jeune Amélie having expired, Dantès took leave of the captain, who at first tried all his powers of persuasion to induce him to remain as one of the crew, but having been told the history of the legacy, he ceased to importune him further.
3. He had been thinking it over most deeply, most intently he had at first hoped to induce Mr.
4. You can lie on the sofa for I know that nothing would induce any of you doctors to go to bed whilst there is a patient above the horizon.
5. Weston engaged to lose no time in writing, and spare no arguments to induce him to come.
6. Fogg, and Passepartout was delighted with her decision for nothing could induce him to leave his master while Fix was with him.
7. Olrun had gone out wandering the town in an unstated but obvious hope her mere presence would induce calm and prevent another altercation between the tribes.
8. As Kallan flopped and shuffled into numerous positions to induce sleep, the scent of fish still clung to the air.
9. I believed him, because first of all he was a doctor and ought to know about such things, and secondly, I would have had to be a pretty pitiful sight to induce him to take me in.
10. The history goes on to say, then, that when the bachelor Samson Carrasco recommended Don Quixote to resume his knight-errantry which he had laid aside, it was in consequence of having been previously in conclave with the curate and the barber on the means to be adopted to induce Don Quixote to stay at home in peace and quiet without worrying himself with his ill-starred adventures at which consultation it was decided by the unanimous vote of all, and on the special advice of Carrasco, that Don Quixote should be allowed to go, as it seemed impossible to restrain him, and that Samson should sally forth to meet him as a knight-errant, and do battle with him, for there would be no difficulty about a cause, and vanquish him, that being looked upon as an easy matter and that it should be agreed and settled that the vanquished was to be at the mercy of the victor.