soothings

Most of us came here ignorant and, with the soothings of a second sons, stayed ignorant, bred for stamina and guts, never knowing about The Big ToolBox that would have aggrandized those qualities.

Jane-Howard Hammerstein: "You Can't Handle the Truth" ... Col. Jessup (a/k/a Jack Nicholson) Jane-Howard Hammerstein 2010

No soothings could mitigate it; no reason could convince him of the impiety of such extravagance.

The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

He then suffered his sisters to lead him back to their room, where he cast himself upon a chair, in painful rumination upon his own unworthiness, and his parents 'excellence; but the tender soothings of

Camilla 2008

I have great hope, if she will but see me, that my behaviour, my contrition, my soothings, may have some happy effect upon her.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

As her malady, he said, was rather to be relieved by the soothings of a friend, than by the prescriptions of a physician, he should think himself greatly honoured to be admitted rather to advise her in the one character, than to prescribe to her in the other.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

If the soothings of sympathy and the delicate arts of benevolence could have restored the serenity of her mind, Ellena would now have been peaceful; for all these were offered her by the abbess and the sisters of the Santa della Piéta.

The Italian 2004

The single lamp, that burned in her spacious chamber, was expiring; for a moment, she shrunk from the darkness beyond; and then, ashamed of the weakness, which, however, she could not wholly conquer, went forward to the bed, where her mind did not soon know the soothings of sleep.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

In the midst of the banquet, soft music again sounded the most tender and impassioned airs; but its effect on Adeline was now lost, her mind being too much embarrassed and distressed by the presence of the Marquis, to admit even the soothings of harmony.

The Romance of the Forest 2004

Poor Harriet was in a flutter of spirits which required all the reasonings and soothings and attentions of every kind that Emma could give.

Emma 2004

Her father was moved by her violent grief; he took her in his arms and soothed her, but his very soothings were solemn and fearful.

The Last Man 2003