Mr. Flack promised to "nose round"; he said the best plan would be that the results should "come back" to her in the Reverberator; it might have been gathered from him that "the people over there"-in other words the mass of their compatriots-wouldn't be unpersuadable that they wanted about a column on Mr. Probert.
"The Reverberator"
Henry James
Fleda tried most earnestly to get rid of this invitation, and was gently unpersuadable, till the lady at last was brought to promise that she should see no creature during the drive but herself.
"Queechy, Volume II"
Elizabeth Wetherell
She could fain have persuaded the lady to disregard circumstances, and stay with her, at least till the next day, but Mrs. Carleton was unpersuadable.
"Queechy, Volume II"
Elizabeth Wetherell