" If your heart's set on that scene I've no right to try and dissuade you; but anyhow, the thing to do is to find out where she is before you start, for you might get to London only to have to turn round and come back. "The Heather-Moon" by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

Of course, I tried to dissuade her from this plan, but you know she is also stubborn. "The Old Gray Homestead" by Frances Parkinson Keyes

You have rank and wealth, and therefore I can comfort myself by thinking that if I dissuade you from this marriage I shall rob you of neither. "The Eustace Diamonds" by Anthony Trollope