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Medicines the most potent are administered to these interesting patients with the utmost care, either as assuagers of temporary pain, or as remedial agents in the cure of disease.
Catty set them on the table with a sort of crash and ran out of the room, crying. Mamma's mouth quivered. Papa looked at the cakes; he looked at Mamma; he looked at Mark. Mark was staring at nothing with a firm grin on his face. "The assuagers of grief," Papa said. "Pass round the assuagers." The holy cakes were passed round. Everybody took a piece except Dan. Papa pressed him. "Try an assuager.
Among the promoters of the wars and disturbances which so long ravaged the Border counties, authors have been anxious to class prominently the tender sex; not, however, in the way in which it was imputed to these fair assuagers of man's misfortunes, that they shed the blood of knights, in the times of Froissart.
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