His conscience was soothed by the enfolding wing of secrecy, which seemed just then like an angel sent down for his relief.
Bulstrode did not want the vinegar, but morally the affectionate attention soothed him.
Even the invisible powers, he thought, were likely to be soothed by a bland parenthesis here and there—coming from a man of property, who might have been as impious as others.
Her father, mother, Sarah, George, and Harriet, all assembled at the door to welcome her with affectionate eagerness, was a sight to awaken the best feelings of Catherine's heart; and in the embrace of each, as she stepped from the carriage, she found herself soothed beyond anything that she had believed possible.
It was some relief, however, that they were to return to the rooms in common use, by passing through a few of less importance, looking into the court, which, with occasional passages, not wholly unintricate, connected the different sides; and she was further soothed in her progress by being told that she was treading what had once been a cloister, having traces of cells pointed out, and observing several doors that were neither opened nor explained to her—by finding herself successively in a bil
Wilkins was incredibly relieved and soothed by this answer.
She would have soothed him.
A good cry, indulged in the grateful solitude of the east gable, had soothed her nerves and restored her to her wonted cheerfulness.
One, in particular, charmed and soothed the soul of the lonely baron.
The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees.
As he and my mother sat across the table discussing the renovations, my mother slipped off her shoes and mindlessly soothed Lacy with her feet.
The Bank of Japan's use of negative rates, dovish coos from New York Fed chairman William Dudley, and statements from Mr Bernanke's successor, Janet Yellen, last week spooked markets rather than soothed them.
After she knew about it, she would come to those people and soothed them by saying, "Don't do that silly thing.
But the prince soothed her fears so successfully, that she soon had no other thought than to arrange for their flight so secretly, that no one in the palace should suspect it.
Besides, I had an instinct that gentle means had the best chance of success; so, a little soothed, I turned towards home, which I reached about the hour of dinner.
She refused to be comforted even as her dad soothed, "The mouse was almost dead, love.
Sacred memories, birdsong and sunrise, interwoven with music from Siegfried, soothed my heart and I came to realize that I was not dreaming, and yet was experiencing the most sublime of all dreams.
