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'If I said so, I wonder what you would answer, said Violet, with a bright, arch look. 'I should hear reason, said Percy, roughly, as if to repel the sweetness; yet it had a mollifying effect, and he presently spoke with less irritation and more regret. 'She suspects no evil, and cannot understand any imputation on her friend.
Time seemed to have no mollifying effect upon the animosity of the King. Six years later, a young man who attempted to carry a letter from Fouquet to his wife was sent to the galleys; and in 1676, fifteen years after the arrest, Madame de Montespan had not influence enough to obtain permission for Madame Fouquet and her children to visit the prisoner.
Travellers assert that it is the very perfume with which the ancient high-priest of the Jews, with whose name it is connected, was wont to anoint his beard, and which the Psalmist extols so much on account of its rich odour and mollifying qualities, the emblem of domestic harmony and brotherly love.
Percy called yesterday, but I could not see him; indeed, I had not time to read my letter; and oh, Theodora, I am so glad you are come, for he wants all manner of infant school pictures and books for the picaninnies, and it is just the commission you understand. The hearing of John's letter read, so far from mollifying Theodora, renewed the other grievance.
Facts were treated as unworthy of her; mere stuff of the dustheap, mutton-bones, old shoes; she swam above them in a cocoon of her spinning, sylphidine, unseizable; and between perplexing and mollifying the slaves of facts, she saw them at their heels, a tearful fry, abjectly imitative of her melodramatic performances.
Let us go and throw ourselves at your parents' feet. They are honest people, neither proud nor hard; they they will give us their blessing we will marry, and then with time, I am sure, we shall succeed in mollifying my father. My mother will intercede for us, and he will forgive me." "No, Petr' Andréjïtch," replied Marya, "I will not marry you without the blessing of your parents.
This last statement seemed to be particularly gratifying to the young officer's vanity, and had a distinctly mollifying effect upon his original hauteur and coldness.
"It was dark, and I did not see him. I'll pay for the pitcher." "Will you, honey?" said the old woman, mollifying instantly. "Well den, 'spose you couldn't help it. Get up, Jeffy." "Can you tell me whether Mrs. lives on any of the floors of this house?" asked Crawford. "Nebber mind dat, till you gib me de money!" answered the old woman, not to be diverted by any side-issues.
He was here after me, and has been tormenting me this twelve months. You have no enemy, a great soft spoon like you." "Keep your temper, Tom," answered George, in a mollifying tone. "Let each man act according to his lights. I couldn't leave a corpse to the fowls of the air. "Gibbet a murderer, I say don't bury him; especially when he has just been hunting our very lives."
"Black, sir," most delicately hinted Pearson, "is more usual in the evening in England." After which he added, "So to speak," with a vague hope that the mollifying phrase might counteract the effect of any apparently implied aspersion on colors preferred in America. Tembarom ceased brushing his hair, and looked at him in good-natured desire for information. "Frock-coats or claw-hammer?" he asked.
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