Verb (used with object) : They blandished the guard into letting them through the gate. From Dictionary.com.
To that end, I occasionally ask beg blandish published authors into coming here to Author!. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2010 » January] Reference
Well, they could beg, blandish and bribe, but she was resolved to resist all bait until she was partnered. From Wordnik.com. [The Ship Who Sang]
She has let you blandish her into that most difficult and dangerous of tasks, telling the truth to a friend. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Getting good feedback, part XII: making it easy to tell you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth — and congratulations, Governor Gary!] Reference
I gave him a spell to make him immune from her blandish - ments, having been warned by her other selfs behavior in Proton. From Wordnik.com. [Unicorn Point]
Cutty Sark was watery; The Famous Grouse was blandish; plain sweetness and alcohol burn contested for primacy in Grant's; Black & White was just blah. From Wordnik.com. [What to Down in a Down Market] Reference
Those of lesser means often save up for them, get a paper route, or blandish kith and kin into donating toward them as birthday presents, in much the same way as anyone else who wants something out of his price range. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2009 » June] Reference
The invested interests spend so much national wealth in preparing the Olympic Games to blandish the international, launch so much propaganda about the 2008 Olympics to gloss over official corruption and social inequality!. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Dean on the Internet] Reference
Despite a blandish accompanying text that doesn't fully succeed in revealing the man behind the art or the reasons for his singular affinity for these subjects, FAMOUS MONSTER MOVIE ART OF BASIL GOGOS keeps its promise of collecting and paying tribute to Gogos' work superbly. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-26] Reference
The nurse and governess tried to blandish her, in vain. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference
If thou wilt not tell me, I will blandish some that will. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference
— and blandish him into giving your query letter and synopsis a solid reading. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2006 » July] Reference
— and blandish her into giving your query letter and synopsis a solid reading. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2007 » August] Reference
Feeling much better now however, after a nice blandish dinner of noodles and dumplings. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers]
At that point, the still-blandish and still-grayish seitan is sliced and left to soak in a spice-enhanced bath for two days. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
The wife, however, by blandish - ments reduced her husband to obedience, as wives always do, and made him promise to carry out her wishes. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The blade was not massive, but somewhat thin, compared with its great length; and I found that I could blandish it, using both hands, with perfect ease. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
It has led me further than I intended; but a sincere wish to guard my countrymen against the blandish« - ments of every specious novelty must be my apology. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knight of St ...] Reference
Gosh, I would think even nuns aren’t so saintly as to blandish their lawyers. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Book marketing 101: the evolution of the pitch — and the industry] Reference
“We expend all of this energy,” I hear you murmuring, “trying to blandish a particular editor to fall in love with our books. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The shape of things to come] Reference
Whatever guides a poet’s hand evades simplicity – meat for one could be a blandish pap when set a-plate before another’s apathy. From Wordnik.com. [Proof You Were] Reference
Until you can blandish the right agent into reading your book, you’re just not going to know for sure whether it is marketable or not. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2007 » August] Reference
Because until you can blandish the right agent into reading your book, you’re just not going to know for sure whether it is marketable or not. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2008 » August] Reference
Also, if I can blandish Jordan into coming back and visiting us here again as I hope I shall, are there any points she’s made you’d like her to expand upon?. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2006 » August] Reference
94 Even the subordinates in the leadership of the party, those whom we may speak of as the non-commissioned officers, have usually proved altogether inaccessible to the blandish-ments of the police. From Wordnik.com. [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference
I’ve never heard rural lifestyle used in a book publishing context — magazine standards tend to be WILDLY different I’m trying to blandish a magazine writer right now into writing a post or two on that, actually. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Nonfiction book categories – and a cheerier Anne] Reference
As a fringe benefit, they will often blandish their local writer friends — publishers’ publicity departments generally ask authors for lists of cities where they have lots of friends, and set up readings accordingly — into attending their readings, just so someone shows up. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2007 » October] Reference
The humble, blandish nice guy. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
Looks ... bit blandish for an Alfa to me. From Wordnik.com. [BBC TopGear: Cars and Autos News] Reference
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