Sentences with phrase «hour of coaxing»

Then I hooked a larger fish on a lightly weighted Muddler and within an asthmatic half hour of coaxing I beached it.

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After three hours of trying to retrieve the dog in the dark — airport staff used toys, dogs, food, and handlers tried to coax the dog back to safety — police were told to shoot it.

I tried soaking and dehydrating the almonds first, as one poster recommended per Nourishing Traditions, but after an hour and a half of processing AND adding raw almond oil to coax it along all I ended up with was a kind of oily almond dough (albeit tasty).

Not only is it a fun and colorful gift in their basket, but it's a gift that will coax them outside for hours of outdoor fun.

During more than four hours of testimony, Howe revealed that a Montauk fishing trip and a steakhouse lunch were but two of the perks used to coax the former top Cuomo aide into bribery schemes.

In one instance, Svenson had to poke a branch at an insect entrenched in a tree for three hours in the middle of the night before he could coax it down and nab it.

This debut feature from writer - director David Veloz, based on a 1995 autobiography, starkly retells Stahl's rise and fall in LA - LA - land over the course of a multi-day shack - up with ex-addict Kitty (E.R.'s Maria Bello), a sucker for rehab patients who coaxes him away from a dead - end job (in, appropriately, Phoenix) in favor of sex (initially as frigid as the frozen chicken he was hacking at only hours earlier at his fast - food outpost) and conversation.

It took about an hour and a lot of coaxing for her to finally warm up to me, at which point she started demanding attention by nipping my hand and shoving toys in my face.

It took me several hours to coax her out of her hiding place, and her broken heart won mine over instantly.

With a little coaxing, Scott convinced me to take a 3 hour one - way bus ride from Taormina to Syracusa where we would be greeted by one of Scott's cousins who thankfully spoke excellent English.

A 26 - hour North Bay standoff with a pregnant elephant seal ended Tuesday afternoon when animal experts coaxed the 900 - pound beast out of the water and tranquilized her.

Trico's disobedience has been flagged by some as an issue, but it really isn't after the first couple of hours — the wild beast is understandably a little unsure about following the orders of a tiny man - thing, and that works just fine mechanically, even if it can be a little frustrating to try and coax the beast into solving a puzzle you worked out ages ago.

It was heartening to learn today that the patient, but determined strategy of federal and local law enforcement officials worked, with three of the anti-government trespassers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge walking out to be arrested and the last holdout coaxed to surrender after hours of YouTube - streamed discussion with the FBI and supporters.