coaxer

This will prepare the young editor for the surprise and consequent temptation to profanity which in a few years he may experience when he finds that the name of the Deity in his double-leaded editorial is spelled with a little "g," and the peroration of the article is locked up between a death notice and the advertisement of a patent moustache coaxer, which is to follow pure reading matter every day in the week and occupy the top of column on Sunday tf.

Remarks Bill Nye 1873

He was “a great coaxer of stories; whatever was there that was any good, he would find it.”

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

.38 Colt's was incentive enough to make him stop and then he shoved her over and gave her a little steam -- just a coaxer.

Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers John A. Hill

That old pony had a sly, artful eye and a way of shaking his head that was tricky -- and try to catch him loose on the prairie with a bucket of oats as a coaxer!

Land of the Burnt Thigh Edith Eudora Kohl

Gulsiver was tried with a coaxer, but he let it pass.

Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905

Frank sent up a coaxer, but Derry refused to be coaxed.

Frank Merriwell at Yale Burt L. Standish 1905

The second one was a coaxer, and he let that ball go by.

Frank Merriwell at Yale Burt L. Standish 1905

The second ball was a coaxer, but Edwards let it pass.

Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905

For if many women loved Diarmuid, there were many he himself gave his love to; and if he was often called Diarmuid the brave, or the hardy, or the comely, or the Hawk of Ess Ruadh, it is often he was called as well the friend and the coaxer of women, Diarmuid-na-man.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

In honor of this crop we rechristened the old haymaker the "cantaloupe coaxer."

A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887