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"Dissuasive" Quotes from Famous Books

... believe Mr. White thinks me a much hotter advocate for change and what is called "political progress" than I am. However, in my reply, I did not touch on these subjects. He intimated a wish to publish some of his own MSS. I fear he would hardly like the somewhat dissuasive tendency of my answer; but really, in these days of headlong competition, it is a great risk to publish. If all be well, I purpose going to Manchester next week to spend a few days with Mrs. Gaskell. Ellen's visit to Yarmouth seems for the present given up; and really, ...

— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

... describe his occupation. Even the patents hung fire at first. There was no salary to rely on; children were coming and growing up; the prospect was often anxious. In the days of his courtship, Fleeming had written to Miss Austin a dissuasive picture of the trials of poverty, assuring her these were no figments but truly bitter to support; he told her this, he wrote, beforehand, so that when the pinch came and she suffered, she should not ...

— Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson

... dangerous classes of men the dread of capital punishment is a dissuasive from crimes of violence, so that the number of murders is less, and the lives of peaceable citizens are safer, than were murder liable to some milder penalty, then it is the undoubted right of the public to confiscate the murderer's right to ...

— A Manual of Moral Philosophy • Andrew Preston Peabody

Words linked to "Dissuasive" : exemplary, cautionary, dissuade, discouraging, persuasive, admonitory, warning, monitory