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Soothingly  adv.  In a soothing manner.






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"Soothingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... hasty," said my father, patting me soothingly on the shoulder; "listen patiently and hear all I have to say, then you ...
— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling

... Little Girl," said Phil, soothingly; "we'd have heard in some way if there had been ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

... other, soothingly. "You ask me to relieve you of the embarrassment of this matter. I quite agree with Mrs. Abbott that there is too much ignorance about these things, but she must recognise, I am sure, that this is not the proper moment for enlightening Mrs. van ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair

... as if typical of the wings he had described. Borne away by the excitement of his words, he stood straight up against the far-away sky, with the verdure of Norway-evergreens soothingly waving their green around him. There was a magnificence of mien in the man, that made my ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various

... Miss," said Luke, soothingly; "they're nash things, them lop-eared rabbits; they'd happen ha' died, if they'd been fed. Things out o' natur niver thrive: God A'mighty doesn't like 'em. He made the rabbits' ears to lie back, an' it's nothin' but contrairiness to make 'em hing down like ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester

... the priest, soothingly. "Those days are gone. He will be taken, and justice will ...
— The Isle of Unrest • Henry Seton Merriman

... arms round his neck, and kissed him soothingly. He laid his burning temples on her bosom, and nestled himself to her, as he had been wont to do, after some stormy paroxysm of his passionate and wayward infancy. So there they remained—their lips ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... soothingly, "I am just as good a chaperon fifty yards behind you, and wide awake, as I am in the same car and fast asleep. And, besides, I want to hear about the game. And, what's more, two cars are much ...
— The Scarlet Car • Richard Harding Davis

... soothingly. Ayah salaamed and hurried away. She, at all events, had cause to bless Jan, for now she got her meals with fair regularity ...
— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker

... its home 'neath an ever calm sky, Near streams wherein crown-jewels sleep,— And there it reposeth: while soothingly nigh, Some loved one, perchance, doth most wooingly sigh, As ...
— Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) • Various

... her hand soothingly). Nay, now collect yourself. And what of Eggenberg and Lichtenstein, And of our other ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... not," I answered soothingly, "though a girl as beautiful as you are is sure to attract men, and is quite as sure to have little affairs. But they are of no more importance than a ...
— The Touchstone of Fortune • Charles Major

... hasn't," agreed Percival, soothingly, not in the least comprehending the drift of her remarks, but pleasantly aware that he was being confided in and that something very limp and lovely was ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice

... spoke soothingly. "Are you comfortable there? Tell me about it, dear." He folded his arms and leaned against his desk, and as he watched her he saw the look of ...
— Moor Fires • E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

... he might Bennett could not help relaxing the grip of outraged law, and patting the young man's shoulder soothingly as it rose and fell. He had no fit weapons of roughness and oppression with which to oppose this child-like grief; he could only ...
— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton

... down beside her, talked soothingly to her, wiped away her tears.... Luckily, Ivan Semyonitch was not at home, and Matrona Semyonovna had gone up to her own little room. I made vows of ...
— The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... drew it out from the inside pocket of her jacket. "There, there!" she said soothingly. "Here it is, dearest child. I thought it safer to take it along with me than to leave ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... wrote him for a grub-stake, fifty dollars at the most, but I haven't even seen a mine that any man would buy, that the other man would sell, and Searle sure got my first before I was bug-house from that wollop on the block." He put his hand to the sore spot on his head and rubbed it soothingly. ...
— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels

... them, as they visited them, one after another the Spartan governors. (1) Everywhere they gave consolatory assurances to the citizens that they had no intention of establishing fortress citadels within their walls, or in any way interfering with their self-government. (2) Such words fell soothingly upon the ears of those to whom they were addressed; the proposals were courteously accepted; all were eager to present Pharnabazus with gifts of friendship and hospitality. The satrap, indeed, was only applying the instructions of his master ...
— Hellenica • Xenophon

... says soothingly, 'oh no, she canna be me'; but anon her real thoughts are revealed by the artless remark, 'I doubt, though, this is a tough job you have on hand - it is so long since I ...
— Margaret Ogilvy • James M. Barrie

... through the bathroom," the manager went on, soothingly. "I am deeply grieved that monsieur should be inconvenienced in any way. This is the apartment I have reserved for monsieur," he added, throwing open the door of a room at the end of the corridor. "It is more spacious and in every way more desirable. ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... anything," Belle said, soothingly. "Besides I want Roger to come and see us, for he can be jolly good company if he has a mind to; and I believe he will come this afternoon or evening. For my sake you must all treat him well, for I want some one ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe

... removed the clinging arms, and kissed them, and set the half-weeping child back in her place. "There, there, there!" he said, soothingly. "What a ...
— Captain January • Laura E. Richards

... Vince, it was all utterly insane and incomprehensible. A rodent, looking like a prairie dog, a little; but plainly possessing a high order of intelligence. And a voice whose soothingly familiar words were more repugnant somehow, simply because they could never belong in a place ...
— The Eternal Wall • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... good friend Mr. Knight," said Mr. Farolles soothingly. "I will ask him to come and see you. I am sure you will ...
— The Garden Party • Katherine Mansfield

... life; around her lay a litter of half-finished works, scattered like autumn leaves in Vallombrosa. I approached her, quite friendly, and offered to gather them up for her—at least some of them, saying soothingly, for I saw she ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne

... these things were but the idle garniture of a tale that had lost its meaning to Ralph this morning; but yet in time the sense that the beauty and hope of life lay about him stole soothingly upon his soul. He was glad to breathe the gracious breaths of spraying honeysuckle running its creamy riot of honey-drenched petals over the hedges, and flinging daring reconnaissances even to the tops of the ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett

... said, soothingly; "never mind my fun, Philippa. This Erik is not so bad a knight I'll warrant me, and when thou art Queen of Denmark, why, I shall be King of England, and my trumpeter, Sir Lionel here, shall sound a gallant defiance as ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks

... bad, I fear," he said soothingly, observing that Jim's lips were compressed, and that beads of perspiration ...
— Personal Reminiscences in Book Making - and Some Short Stories • R.M. Ballantyne

... child set up a cry: 'Be still,' the mother said, 'or I Will throw you to the wolf, you brat!' 'Ha, ha!' thought he, 'what talk is that! The gods be thank'd for luck so good!' And ready at the door he stood, When soothingly the mother said, 'Now cry no more, my little dear; That naughty wolf, if he comes here, Your dear papa shall kill him dead.' 'Humph!' cried the veteran mutton-eater. 'Now this, now that! Now hot, now cool! Is this the way ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine

... modification of the acroama—a musical performance during supper for the diversion of the guests—was presently heard hovering round the place, soothingly, and so unobtrusively that the company could not guess, and did not like to ask, whether or not it had been designed by their entertainer. They inclined on the whole to think it some wonderful peasant-music peculiar to that wild neighbourhood, turning, as it ...
— Marius the Epicurean, Volume Two • Walter Horatio Pater

... thee mustna make much of a trifle," said Mr. Poyser, soothingly. "She's fond on us, I'll be bound; but she's young, an' gets things in her head as she can't rightly give account on. Them young fillies 'ull run ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot

... go arrestin' us, Mary," declared Jane soothingly. "Still, I agree with you that it's just as well for us to be clear of such a thing; let ...
— The Wall Between • Sara Ware Bassett

... were, he could scarcely regret them wholly, as they had exhibited his charming wife under such a good and sweet and kindly aspect. "If I have given her a soul," he could not help saying to himself, "I have indeed given her a better one than my own;" and his only thought now was to speak soothingly to the weeping Undine, and on the following morning to quit with her a place which, after this incident, must have become distasteful to her. It is true that she was not estimated differently to what she had been. As something mysterious ...
— Undine - I • Friedrich de la Motte Fouque

... Cayley soothingly. "You can get your husband back from that woman to-morrow, if you choose." She smiled. "Do you see my ...
— The Helpmate • May Sinclair

... brought me in an astonishing amount of money, in spite of the music-pirates. It was on the barrel-organs. Adults hummed it. Infants crooned it in their cots. Comic men at music-halls opened their turns by remarking soothingly to the conductor of the orchestra, "I'm going to sing now, so you go to sleep, love." In a word, while the boom lasted, it was a little gold-mine ...
— Not George Washington - An Autobiographical Novel • P. G. Wodehouse

... continued soothingly. "Don't cry, Abdul. Look! Here's a lovely narghileh for you to smoke, with a gold mouthpiece. See! Wouldn't you like a little latakia, eh? And here's a little toy Armenian—look! See his head come off—snick! There, it's on again, snick! now it's ...
— Further Foolishness • Stephen Leacock

... "Rot!" he went on soothingly. "It's good Wall Street cash—got it exactly like they got theirs—got it because I was quicker and smarter than the fellow that had it. I use a jimmy, they use ...
— The Foolish Virgin • Thomas Dixon

... a deprivation to you, miss," replies Mr. Bucket soothingly, "no doubt. He was calculated to BE a deprivation, I'm ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... a real pretty little blush, just the same!" Mrs. Tarbury said, smiling at Julia. The girls shouted, and Julia grew still more red. "Never mind, baby love!" said the older woman soothingly. "It's just Aunt Min's nonsense! Say, but listen, Julia!" Her tone grew suddenly intense. "I meant to ask you something—listen. Say, no fooling, Artheris wants to know if ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... say! farther back!' And back he goes to the position of December, 1847, at which the gad is still, and the voice soothingly says: ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams

... but the majority, it was plain to see, hailed from the city. No steam carousel shrieked, no ballyhoo blared, no steam pianos shrieked, no barker barked. Upon the piers, stretching out into the surf, bands played soothingly softened airs and along the water front, sand-artists and so-called minstrel singers plied their arts. Some of the visitors fished—without catching anything—and some listened to the music and some strolled aimlessly ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... tell thee all I know," rejoined the woman soothingly. "Thy slaves were close at hand in the vestibule of the imperial tribune, and thy litter was down below with the bearers, in case thou shouldst require it. But I had stood on the threshold of the tribune for some time watching thee, for thy sweet face had ...
— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... Cheer up, little girl," said the doctor, very soothingly, and patting her head with his steady, strong hand. "No mishap is possible. We cannot explode, collapse, burn, collide, nor capsize. No enterprise ever entered upon by man possessed so much of interest and importance, and was attended ...
— Doctor Jones' Picnic • S. E. Chapman

... the physician, half coldly, half soothingly. "What should ail me to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe? The medicine is potent for good, and were it my child—yea, mine own, as well as thine! I could ...
— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... to be off duty now," Mike said soothingly, "but I don't want to get myself killed wearing a leaky suit tomorrow. I'll help you ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett

... black, that Helena was momentarily touched. For the first time her new chaperon appeared to her as something else than a mere receiver into which, or at which, it suited her to talk. She laid her own hand soothingly ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... afternoon, robbing the sea of its terror and making it enchanting and lovely, and weaving a mystic charm about the bare, bald Rock basking warm and purple under the sun. Even the waves murmured only softly and soothingly and with drowsy echoes, as they rippled in and out among the rocks and along the sand. Fortunately for their pleasure, Noll picked up a curious pebble before they had gone a great way. It was not an agate, nor was it like ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord

... the fight till the estate's settled," said Kent, soothingly. "And then you'll know what you're fighting about. ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow

... darling, and I will make short work of the evil omen!" Love answered, gayly, as with two sharp blows of the racquet he carried in his hand he destroyed the ominous intruder on their peace, and kicked it aside, saying, soothingly: "Take that as an omen, darling, that I will always thrust aside whatever interferes ...
— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

... his bill," rejoined Fred, soothingly. "You have been grievously hurt, and need better attention ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... squatting upon the floor at the foot of his couch shuddered and touched her forehead to the floor. "It must be that the enemy have come, O Jad-ben-Otho." She spoke soothingly for she had reason to know the terrors of the mad frenzy into which trivial things sometimes ...
— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... from it, friend," said Mrs. Coffin, soothingly. "Surely we would not deprive thee of what is thine own, and what thee seems to value so much. Now if thee will try to go to sleep, I will stay with thee the while, and when thee wakes give thee some broth ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

... had loved it. Somewhere in the great, star-strewn spaces above it perhaps dwelt the souls of unborn men and women who would love it hereafter. Somehow its age-old and ever-young message seemed to come soothingly to her heart. "All end is but beginning, and no end is final. The present is but hesitation between past and future. Shadows and sunlight are abstract things until you see them side by side—filtered through my branches. ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck

... being there when some lady came back on the appointed Wednesday or Saturday, and the tailor came soothingly forward and showed her into the curtained alcove where she was to try on the garments, and then called into the inner shop for them. The shirt-sleeved journeyman, with his unbuttoned waistcoat-front all pins and threaded needles, would appear in his slippers with ...
— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells

... speaking from the influence of a dream, Isabel," he soothingly said; "you have been asleep and are not yet awake. Be still, and recollection will return to you. There, love; rest ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood

... began to curse. "Why can't we see them?" they muttered through their teeth. The sergeant was still frigid. He answered soothingly as if he were directly reprehensible for this behavior of the enemy. "Wait a moment. You will soon be able to see them. There! Give it to them!" A little skirt of black figures had appeared in a ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane

... don't mean to be bad," remarked Uncle Billy soothingly. "It's jus' 'cause he's so young an' onthinkin'. An' aftah all, it ain't what he does. It's mo' like what the white folks say in they church up on the hill. 'I have lef' undone the things what I ought ...
— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston

... strong than thou My soul, that fearless leaps to thine embrace And thy stern, wrinkled brow Doth tender touch and soothingly, And vassal art thou still to me, That no ...
— Lilith - The Legend of the First Woman • Ada Langworthy Collier

... Adam soothingly and eyeing me anxious-eyed. "She is the lady Joanna that you preserved from death and worse, ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol

... a real fight over it, didn't there?" agreed Mrs. Trimble soothingly. "Well, 't wa'n't good taste. I remember the old house well. I come here as a child to visit a cousin o' mother's, an' Mr. Trimble's folks was neighbors, an' we was drawed to each other then, young's we was. Mr. Trimble spoke of ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... "There, there," said Rushford, soothingly, repressing an inclination to laugh at the grotesque figure before him. "Don't take it so much to heart. I dare say they drink your ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson

... grip on yourself, Mr. Adkins," he said, in that steady voice of his that generally acted so soothingly on those whom Jack addressed. "We'll try to get him out for you. But first tell me ...
— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton

... to satisfy myself," Claybrook assured her soothingly. "And I'm not giving you the money. You can write me out a note for it. Six per cent. is better than four," he added. ...
— Stubble • George Looms

... sense of humor, a sympathetic understanding of the view-point of those of fewer years, which the mouth beneath corroborated, for the lips held a little curve which often betrayed the inward emotions. Her voice was soft and sweet and its intonation fell soothingly upon Peggy's sensitive ears. Taken altogether, her elder guest had already won Peggy's heart, though she would have found it hard to ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... he replied soothingly. "It is annoying for you, but I give you my word that you shall not be compromised by me—come, luncheon is waiting. I will show you the only three men in Europe and America who might associate the bandit, the incendiary, with him ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer

... and departed without a word, while Dick walked round and round the spellbound captive, giving him such advice as he conceived best for the welfare of his soul. When Torpenhow returned with a gigantic portfolio, he heard Dick say, almost soothingly, "Now, I hope this will be a lesson to you; and if you worry me when I have settled down to work with any nonsense about actions for assault, believe me, I'll catch you and manhandle you, and you'll die. You haven't very long to live, anyhow. Go! Imshi, Vootsak,—get out!" The ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... CHRIS—[Soothingly.] Ay wouldn't never dream—[Then, after a second's pause, reprovingly.] You vas gatting learn to svear. Dat ain't nice for young gel, ...
— Anna Christie • Eugene O'Neill

... old man," said Hillyard soothingly, "and we'll go on with this letter. It looks to me as if——" He was glancing onwards and checked himself with an exclamation. His face became grave ...
— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason

... this remark was given led Ringfield to say soothingly, "I am sure you are—it is, I mean. I am quite ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison

... as it is, the air is so pretty, the women sang so softly and sleepily, the music sounded so soothingly as we glided along the water, that I felt in a pleasant half-dreamy state of perfect contentment, and was sorry when, arriving at the landing-place, we had to return to a carriage and civilized life, with nothing but the garlands of flowers to ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... soothingly; "now lay still or you'll hurt the little beauty. I'm going to fix something ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock

... prevented his listeners taking offence at the words which, from any one else, would have brought serious consequences. The parson said soothingly: ...
— A Waif of the Mountains • Edward S. Ellis

... to him soothingly, "Lo, the people love me, and I will see that thou art saved; for verily thou hast been friendly to me, and done me much service ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... or at least the prudence, of there being another witness present. Taking advantage of the exhaustion of the speaker, he stepped to the door of Eve's cabin, and signed Paul to follow him. They entered the state-room together, when John Effingham took Mr. Monday soothingly by the hand, offering him a nourishment less exciting than the cordial, but which had ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... you, Bill," he said soothingly, and dropped the weapon into his coat pocket. "I'm going to take you up with me, for the sake of the effect of that face of yours, looking the way it does right now. But I'll do the talking, mind! It won't take long. We're going to ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony

... sprang from her chair and fell back with a startled exclamation. Now thoroughly alarmed, more than ever convinced that the shipwreck had affected his brain, her one solicitude was to keep him quiet until she could get a doctor. Soothingly she said: ...
— The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure • Arthur Hornblow

... soothingly, "how shall I help? That's a woman's burden that heaven isn't merciful enough to let a man share." He stopped abruptly and threw up his head. "Did ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various

... answered, soothingly; "don't borrow trouble; remember we are under the same protection on the sea as on the land, and perhaps as safe on ...
— Elsie at Nantucket • Martha Finley

... which increased so fast that she scarcely saw the tempting little supper which Aunt Eunice brought, asking her to eat. Of one thing, however, she was conscious, and that of the dark form bending over her pillow and whispering soothingly the passage which had once brought Heaven to him, "Come unto me, come unto me, and I ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes

... clockmaker soothingly, "you shall do as you please. Heed not his threats, for when I have finished my great work we shall be as rich and ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence

... for the anger that blazed in his eyes for the pursuer, even while his lips parted in a smile at the coming of the girl. He reined in protectingly between her and the approaching Jack, and spoke soothingly because of ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower

... soothingly. "I've told him you'd know all about it." Amy turned to Clint impatiently. "Dreer went to Claflin—- how many years was it? ...
— Left Tackle Thayer • Ralph Henry Barbour

... grasses, he drove the team rapidly forward, bound for a country where there were wells, and not water-cars, where rain fell oftener, and where food, both for man and beast, could be gotten easily from the earth. But Dallas, seated in the schooner's bed, her weeping sister held soothingly against her breast, watched, dry-eyed, as a mound by a giant mesquite faded slowly from her sight, and saw her girlhood's home give way, as a lighthouse sinks behind a speeding vessel, until only ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates

... soothingly in hers and said, "Little Beatrice, if tomorrow or the next day they should tell you, those cold, proud women, that Alicia was unworthy of your love, tell ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... calm of passion. She had been feverishly agitated; but as this white silence dawned upon her, so strong, yet voluptuous, never sad, making in its masque of marble one intense moment eternal, some of the same power spread soothingly over her. She paused a moment to gather the thronging thoughts. How still the room was! she had not known that music was at his command before. How sweet the air that blew in at the window! what late flowers bore such pungent ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various

... soothingly, "don't agitate yourself over so trifling a matter. The only living man who can prove that Hawkins was served is Bunce—and Bunce is a fool. At best it would simply be one swearing against the other. We have a perfect right to believe Hawkins in preference to Bunce if we choose. ...
— The Confessions of Artemas Quibble • Arthur Train

... any cheek in it," I said, as soothingly as possible. "You don't mean to pretend to argue, at this time of day that a newspaper man does not know how to conduct every other business as well as ...
— In a Steamer Chair And Other Stories • Robert Barr

... back to his position of March, 1847. But still the gad waves, and the voice grows more distinct and sharper still, 'Back, sir! Back, I say! Further back!' And back he goes to the position of December, 1847, at which the gad is still and the voice soothingly says, 'So! Stand still ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... Miss Jane, soothingly, "he hain't the first poor creetur that's flung his welfare to the winds. The Old Boy's mighty busy in these days, but the Almighty hain't dead yit, I reckon, and he'll come along thereckly and set things ...
— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris

... "No, my dear child;" soothingly said her aunt, "your father is not horrible, or hideous except that he is the slave of drink. He is not inhuman, but a tender, loving creature. He is a gentleman, cultured and learned. There is nothing fine in the language he cannot repeat, so wonderful ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts

... take a turn for the better some day, Margaret," said the other woman, soothingly; "and as time goes on you'll find yourself getting more and more pleasure out of your work, as I do. Why, I've never been so securely happy in my life as I am now. ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris

... your mine begins to pay it will keep on paying for ever so long. You can plan to spend all the money you can possibly use, if the mine has any kind of vein in it," said Kenneth, soothingly. ...
— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... remarked soothingly. "With the tinkle of a bell you can call your man and have me bounced. I repacked my bag after taking a bath in your very comfortable guest-room, and we can part immediately. But let us be sensible, Deering; just between ourselves, don't you really ...
— The Madness of May • Meredith Nicholson

... away from the forehead so gently and so soothingly that she could not resist the effect. She meant to keep awake until Omas made his final decision; but no person can resist the approach of slumber, except ...
— The Daughter of the Chieftain - The Story of an Indian Girl • Edward S. Ellis

... dearest, I am sure that he is sincere," Laura answered soothingly. "Now, my own Geraldine, do pray be reasonable, and leave this business to me. As for Clarissa, I have plans for her, the realization of which would set your mind quite at ease; but if I cannot put them into execution immediately, the girl shall go. Of course you are the first consideration. ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon

... Don't be frightened, dear," he said quickly and soothingly. "I won't. I won't do anything you don't want ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... face on the coat of gray, and sobbed; while her father stroked her hair and answered soothingly, but in a tone ...
— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple

... troubles, Sam'l," said Sanders, soothingly, "an' every man maun bear his ain burdens. Johnny Davie's wife's ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various

... she shuddered, she could not drag her hand away. He was her tamer now: and as he spoke soothingly and she grew quieter, a new faith awoke in her, yet a faith as old as woman; the false imperishable faith that by giving all she binds a man as he ...
— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... very kind in Rollo to speak soothingly and pleasantly to Nathan; though, if he had reflected how much goodness depends upon the state of the heart, he would not have supposed that Nathan was yet a good boy. In fact, when he saw that Rollo ...
— Rollo's Experiments • Jacob Abbott

... he'll go to his Latin and things," said Mrs. Vincy, soothingly, stroking her son's head. "There's a fire in the smoking-room on purpose. It's your father's wish, you know—Fred, my dear—and I always tell him you will be good, and go to college again to take ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... said Mrs. King soothingly; 'we'll wait till he comes in from his work, and see how you are, when you've had a little sleep. Don't cry; you ...
— Friarswood Post-Office • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Don' be hasty," replied Unc' Billy soothingly. "Ah haven't said that Brer Porky told me that he had seen the thing that Peter says chased him. He told the truth when he told you that he hadn't seen any stranger around his hill. What he told me was that—" ...
— The Adventures of Prickly Porky • Thornton W. Burgess

... in course," interrupted Nott, soothingly; "that's wot you say now, and that's what you allow to do. That's wot ...
— By Shore and Sedge • Bret Harte

... Mr. Wells soothingly. "I wish we could have spared you the pain and publicity of an inquest, but of course it's quite unavoidable in the absence of ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie

... money gathered yet. The delay isn't worth exciting yourself about!" said the Doctor, soothingly. Father Tim amused him, and he liked him, being well aware that if his temper was hot, his heart was correspondingly warm. "You'll see the young chap will give you the site as soon as ...
— Mount Music • E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

... me my cap and my stick.' He liked to break in his horses himself. Once a spirited horse he was training bolted with him down a hillside and over a precipice. 'Come, there, there, you young colt, you'll kill yourself!' said Ovsyanikov soothingly to him, and an instant later he flew over the precipice together with the racing droshky, the boy who was sitting behind, and the horse. Fortunately, the bottom of the ravine was covered with heaps of sand. No one was injured; only the horse sprained a leg. 'Well, you see,' continued Ovsyanikov ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev

... Dalstan," the young man declared soothingly. "See you later, Mr. Romilly," he added. "Maybe you'll let us have a few of your impressions to work ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... soothingly, reasoned with her, sought to calm her; but, in the midst of his tender offices, the inexorable whistle sounded; and tearing himself from her embrace, he sprang into the cars, accompanied by his wife, and took a seat just ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... that you were so much to blame," said Katherine soothingly. "If the man was accused and could not clear himself, then plainly there was something wrong somewhere: and after all you simply held your tongue; it was not as if you had stolen anything, letting the blame fall on him, or had falsely accused him in ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant

... what Richet says in confession of his perplexity," I called out, soothingly. "He writes: 'It took me twenty years to arrive at my present conviction—nay! to make one last confession. I am not yet absolutely and irremediably convinced. In spite of the astounding phenomena which I have witnessed during ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland

... the pillows; her brother bent over and spoke soothingly and encouragingly to her. When she had recovered a little he turned once more to the others, and Scanlon saw a bitter anger in his face—a cold, hard fury, such as only comes of a hurt that is deep and ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre

... through the still atmosphere; the hum of human voices, softened by distance, falls soothingly upon the ear; and as we look, and listen, and loiter on our way, we wonder if this can be the dreamland of the arctic regions? Can there ever be snow-storms and scathing frosts in such a land of tropical luxuriance? Thus, as we lounge along in the ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne

... instance?" queried Mrs. Ford soothingly. She knew that the first defeat Mollie had ever experienced would be bound to rankle and was prepared to make allowances. "If the engine is all right, why don't ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point - Or a Wreck and a Rescue • Laura Lee Hope

... where you get all your long words from," said Mr. Twist soothingly; and Anna-Rose laughed, and there was only one dimple in the Twinkler family and ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim

... said Dan, soothingly, and watching his chance, he hopped up on the mustang's back. Immediately the animal bucked and plunged, trying his best to throw his rider. The lariat was depriving him of his wind, and of a sudden he stopped short and trembled, as if about ...
— For the Liberty of Texas • Edward Stratemeyer

... yearlings frisk and jump, While the pleasant dews are falling;— The new-milch heifer is quick and shy, But the old cow waits with tranquil eye; And the white stream into the bright pail flows, When to her task the milkmaid goes, Soothingly calling,— "So, boss! so, boss! so! so! so!" The cheerful milkmaid takes her stool, And sits and milks in the twilight cool, Saying, "So! ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various

... be, my good Gonzaga," she answered soothingly, and Gonzaga, ready to faint from spite, ...
— Love-at-Arms • Raphael Sabatini

... Viney," he said, soothingly, "I know it was wrong, and I've always regretted it, always, from the very moment. But you shouldn't bear malice. Servants, the Bible says, should obey their masters, and you should bless them that curse you, and do good to them that ...
— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt

... plunging madly, dragging the vehicle perilously near to the ditch on the left hand. Then Desmond's familiarity with animals, gained at so much cost to himself on his brother's farm, bore good fruit. He spoke to the horses soothingly, managed them with infinite tact, and coaxed them into submission. Then he let them have their heads, and they galloped on at speed, pausing only when they reached the turnpike going into Brentford. They were ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang

... first, my dear," she said, soothingly, "or I should never have spoken as I did. Some very strange callers come here. But you are truly welcome. I had a daughter once; she must have been nearly your age when God took her. Won't you ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish

... said soothingly. "It will be very easy. Only let me take your form for a little. When I am the Emperor's wife," laughing, "I shall find a way to punish him, for no one can give a man more pain that his wife can, if she desires to do so. You know, I am a servant of Lu-o and can ...
— A Chinese Wonder Book • Norman Hinsdale Pitman

... Kronprinz began to sing. The notes at first were low and liquid, and they fell soothingly upon the ears, and so into the heart of this poor Andreas; and as they rose higher and fuller and clearer, light began to show for him where only darkness had been. The other birds, fired to emulation by these mellow warblings, joined in a sweet chorus, above ...
— An Idyl Of The East Side - 1891 • Thomas A. Janvier

... Soothingly, and almost tearfully, the maiden replied: "No, lady; such were not the feelings which made me say we could not be friends. It is because we have chosen different paths; and paths that never approach each other. What to you seem idle dreams, are to me sublime ...
— Philothea - A Grecian Romance • Lydia Maria Child

... a desolation of plains, that carburetor trouble of a most disturbing character developed. Renwick paced up and down, offering advice and suggestion and then swearing in all the languages he knew, but the chauffeur only shrugged and sputtered, while the tall man gurgled soothingly. An hour they remained there when Renwick's patience became exhausted, and he gave way to the suspicion which had for some time obsessed him, that the pair of them were conspiring to delay him upon ...
— The Secret Witness • George Gibbs

... you all to witness that I am not the property of this insolent fellow, who fancies that my silence is worth no more than five hundred francs. You will never be a minister if you cannot gauge people's consciences. There, my good Finot," he added soothingly, "I will get on with my story without personalities, and we shall ...
— The Firm of Nucingen • Honore de Balzac

... I'd like the little thing here as much as you, Kate, dear," Larry said soothingly, and in her heart Mrs. Donovan knew that he meant it. "But it isn't every day that a man picks up a job like this, janitor of a swell apartmen' buildin', an' if we take in a kid when the lease says plain as can be, no childern, no dogs an' no cats, I'll lose the job an' then how'll I put a roof ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett

... alanna," said Ellish, soothingly, "what's comin' over you, at all, an' me; goin' to explain to his honor the outs and ins I of our opinion about the land? Faix, man, we're not thinkin' about you, ...
— Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee • William Carleton

... the sensation to sink in, the Antiquary murmured soothingly, "Get it off your mind quickly, Old Man," the Critic remarked that the Campbells were surely coming, and the Patron asked with nettled dignity how the ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather

... and that the class are to wear crape on their left arms for thirty days, and that you only hope that the President will meet you in the college-yard and ask why you wear it; to all of which she replies soothingly, 'I wouldn't do that, Henry; for the President might tell you not to mourn, as your friend was not lost, only gone before.' You tell her of your stunned sensation on finding some of your literary work complimented in the Nation, and she exclaims: 'I should think so! It must ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... little, and he patted her shoulder soothingly, but he did not speak until with a quivering sigh she relaxed ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell

... I said soothingly. "It won't be for long. I feel myself that I need a change. Perhaps we'll go to Ireland. The Aunts are grumbling because I don't go. Just a few weeks more, while I think things over and make my plans. Make the best of ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... have you at Elvirade," said the governor's wife soothingly. "I will not let the young people excite you to too ...
— Old Kaskaskia • Mary Hartwell Catherwood



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