Wuthering Heights vocabulary

I pray that he may break your neck: take him, and be damned, you beggarly interloper! and wheedle my father out of all he has: only afterwards show him what you are, imp of Satan.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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He came towards Leon, and, with that smile of wheedling benignity assumed by ecclesiastics when they question children

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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Typically the monks chose the more pious men, and Joe Dubois had been an absolute pagan, but somehow he'd always wheedled himself into the job.

Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.104 (2005)

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“I’ll be verra gentle,” he wheedled, dragging me inexorably under the quilt.