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  • It is altogether a mistake (continued the poor relation) to suppose that my dear Christiana, over-persuaded and influenced by her mother, married a rich man, the dirt from whose carriage wheels is often, in these changed times, thrown upon me as she rides by.

    The Poor Relation’s Story 2007

  • It is altogether a mistake (continued the poor relation) to suppose that my dear Christiana, over-persuaded and influenced by her mother, married a rich man, the dirt from whose carriage wheels is often, in these changed times, thrown upon me as she rides by.

    The Poor Relation’s Story 2007

  • However, the DUKE OF NORFOLK, an honourable but rather weak nobleman, partly because Mary was captivating, partly because he was ambitious, partly because he was over-persuaded by artful plotters against Elizabeth, conceived a strong idea that he would like to marry the Queen of Scots — though he was a little frightened, too, by the letters in the casket.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • And even, if you please, in sincere compliment to your opinion, and to that of Mr. Hickman, that (over-persuaded by his friends, and ashamed of his unmerited baseness to me) he would in earnest marry me, if I would have him.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • To say, that a person of your known steadiness and punctilio was over-persuaded when you gave him the meeting, how will that sound? —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I over-persuaded Laura, as my friends would have done me.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • What a victim must that woman look upon her-self to be, who is compelled, or even over-persuaded, to give her hand to a man who has no share in her heart?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Nor had he done it now, had not the younger sportsman, who was excessively eager to pursue the flying game, over-persuaded him; but Jones being very importunate, the other, who was himself keen enough after the sport, yielded to his persuasions, entered the manor, and shot one of the partridges.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • He turned to Steger, where the latter was having the clerk poll the jury, in the hope that some one juror had been over-persuaded, made to vote against his will.

    The Financier 2004

  • The Scotch lawyer, Mr Micklewhimmen, recommended a hot bath of these waters so earnestly, that I was over-persuaded to try the experiment. —

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

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