Sentence example with the word 'mollifying'

mollifying

appeasing, cradling, drowsy, gentling, loosening, pacificatory, placatory, quietening, restful, soothful, subduing

Last update: October 14, 2015


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There was a stormy interview at York Place; but Pole succeeded in mollifying the king's rage so far that Henry told him to put into writing his reasons against the divorce.   [Please select]

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And no doubt there was something mollifying in the boy's humble expressions.   [Please select]

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When the storm began to abate, he spoke in mollifying tones:-- "Now, my dear fellow,--this unfortunate occurrence."   [Please select]

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But his interruption and his irritating stare had accomplished no mollifying purpose down in the court.   [Please select]

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After which he added, "So to speak," with a vague hope that the mollifying phrase might counteract the effect of any apparently implied aspersion on colors preferred in America.   [Please select]

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The understanding displayed by this man in holding back the over-eager Americans on one side, and in mollifying the sensitive Californians on the other, is worthy of all admiration.   [Please select]

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