soothest

“O soothest sleep”… yep, John, right there behind you.

To Sleep – by John Keats « Me, Myself and Other Things 2009

Meanwhile all were enjoined to observe complete silence "except that they earnestly pray to Almighty God that He make manifest what is soothest."

The Customs of Old England

Thou soothest him, thou giv'st him health, and God doth favor those

All About Coffee 1909

'Verily,' answered the crow, 'the best speech is that which is soothest, and most like thou speakest with thy tongue that which is not in thy heart.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

Tibble screwed up his mouth in an extraordinary smile as he said, "Relic quotha? yea, the soothest relic there be of the Lord and Master of us all."

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The soothest sprite that sings on life's long wilderness.

The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan William Lisle Bowles 1806

Oh, smoke! thou deity of thousands, and the special idol of the bush-man! thou that soothest the dull moments of a weary solitude, and the anguish of a desponding spirit; that satisfiest the cravings of a consuming hunger; that alleviates the pains, brightens the intellects, and dispels illusion of the morbid fancies and diseased imaginations of thy votaries! thou anodyne for melancholy; thou disseminator of good feeling; conciliator and ratifyer of peace offerings! without thee what would mortal bush-man be?

Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro

'shepherd,' _i. e._ a poet, and to 'the soothest shepherd,' _i. e._ the truest poet, and as he follows Spenser's version of the story in this poem, we need not hesitate to identify Meliboeus with Spenser.

Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

And you were able to say the soothest about his temper. "

The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893

"Relic quotha? yea, the soothest relic there be of the Lord and

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862