| 1. | No need to advise, urge, watch, inspire, coax and cajole him to keep him at it. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 2. | "Lads," he said, ready to cajole or strike as need be, but never quailing for an instant, "I've thought it out. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 3. | And to cap it all, when Mercedes, with tears in her pretty eyes and a quaver in her throat, could not cajole him into giving the dogs still more, she stole from the fish-sacks and fed them slyly. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 4. | The time has arrived when he will be compelled to flatter divers of his slaves, and make many promises to them of freedom and other things, much against his will--he will have to cajole his own servants. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 5. | He was courted, flattered, cajoled on every side but the use he made of his new power is sad to contemplate. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 6. | There were times when I beat and kicked him madly, times when I cajoled and persuaded him, and once I tried to bribe him with the last bottle of burgundy, for there was a rain-water pump from which I could get water. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 7. | Judged by his acts, he was apparently a timeserver, catering to a depraved audience in his dramas, and dedicating his work with much flattery to those who were easily cajoled by their vanity into sharing their purse and patronage. - from English Literature by William J. Long |