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He's wearing dresses." "He ain't old enough for pants. He's only two." "Oh, mercy! He's lots bigger than Glen. But then Glen won't be two until next January." "Is Glen your brother?" asked the other girl, somewhat mollified by the friendliness of the stranger's voice. "No, he's the minister's little boy which we used to have in Parker where we lived 'fore we came here. What's your baby's name?"
"Miss Violet Pike came forward then," said Natalya, "and said, 'Cannot this sentence be mollified? "And he said it could not be mollified. "They took us away in a patrol to the Tombs. "We waited in the waiting-room there. The matron looked at us and said, 'You are not bad girls. I will not send you down to the cells. You can do some sewing for me here. But I could not sew.
The opinion then that is hurtful is not that which is formed in the depths, and from the honest necessities of a man's own nature, but that which he has taken up at second hand, the study of which has pleased his intellect; has perhaps subdued fears and mollified distresses which ought rather to have grown and increased until they had driven the man to the true physician; has puffed him up with a sense of superiority as false as foolish, and placed in his hand a club with which to subjugate his neighbour to his spiritual dictation.
"But really I had no intention of stealing, I only borrowed it as I borrowed it from you, and am equally as ready to return it as I am yours." "Why don't you do so, then?" said Helmar, a little mollified at the man's open words. "Look here, Mark, I don't want to say hard things, but if you're not a knave you are a fool, and the sooner you pull yourself together and live a decent life, the better!"
"You say that you will do all you can to satisfy me," said Sydney, who was not much mollified by her tenderness. "Will you give up the acquaintance of that man?" "I am not certain that I shall ever see Mr. Walcott again; but if you ask me whether I will promise to insult him if I do see him, or to cut him because he has been accused of dishonorable acts, then I certainly say, No!"
Bennet, although of a wording hardly as respectful as she considered seemly, mollified Arethusa to the extent of finishing out this dance with Billy. But it was not at all necessary that he actually carry out his offer when the dance was really over, for just as the last strains of music were sounding, Mr. Bennet re-appeared from the direction of the hall.
Scobell, slightly mollified, "and Betty shouldn't oughter have handed it to you. I don't wonder you feel raw. I wouldn't say that sort of thing to a guy's face. Sure, no. Tact's my middle name. But, since you have heard it, well !" "Don't apologize. You were quite right. I was a fool not to see it before. No description could have been fairer. You might have said much more.
At least, there is many a time I'd give a deal. I'll not deny but at other times I'm pleased at the thought on't. But, if I could I'd change places wi' thee at this moment. 'It's fine talking, said Coulson, half mollified, and yet not caring to show it.
General Moreno used to say that you could reckon up the wool-crop to a pound, while it was on the sheep's backs." "Yes, Senora," answered the mollified Juan; "the poor beasts look wonderfully well considering the scant feed they have had all winter. We'll not come many pounds short of our last year's crop, if any.
The success with the skins greatly mollified the new captain, who declared to me that, after he had hanged Smudge in sight of his own shores, he should "feel something like himself again." We passed the night under our top-sails, standing off and on, with the wind steady, but light, at the southward.
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