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The elite of today fancy themselves as elevated by education and now the means to assuage is carefully worded semantic argument.— The Reality Check
On the 22nd of May the waters commenced to assuage, and twenty days afterward the Settlers were able with difficulty to reach their homes again But every disaster has its side of advantage.— The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba
In steam-voyaging, we may expect that means will be adopted to avert, or at least assuage, the terrible calamities of conflagration and shipwreck--better acquaintance with the principles of spontaneous combustion, and with the natural law of storms, being of itself a great step towards this important result One of the latest wonders in practical science, is a plan for cooling the air in dwellings in hot climates; by which persons residing in India, and other oppressively warm countries, may live habitually in an atmosphere cooled down to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, or the ordinary heat of a pleasant day in England.— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852
They are selected at random from dozens of others, with which the poor man must have been overwhelmed during the past two months 1 MY LORD,--In the present critical state of your lordship's situation, it behoves every lover of his country and her friends, to endeavour to assuage, as much as possible, the awkward predicament in which your lordship and colleagues will soon be thrown.— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete

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