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Updated: May 13, 2025
It smooths inconveniences, overcomes difficulties, and is a means which always conducts us to glorious ends; it makes friends of enemies, tempers the wrath of the choleric, and abates the arrogance of the proud: it is the mother of modesty, and sister of temperance.
An English shilling speedily smooths the wrinkles off that puckered brow as if by a miracle, and makes us the best of friends. What wonders the little medallion portrait of the Majesty of England will work, what hearts soften, what doors unlock, and what hypocrites make! With a flattering and obsequious bow our guide leads the way.
He is fondest of her and most loving to her, when there is no creature by. The child says then, sometimes: 'Dear grandpapa, why do you cry when you kiss me? He only answers, 'Little Florence! little Florence! and smooths away the curls that shade her earnest eyes.
Roundjacket to give the advice, might have been been peculiar." And Miss Lavinia smooths down her black silk with dignity. "Peculiar?" "Yes," says the lady, glancing this time at Redbud. "How was it, Verty?" the Squire says, turning to the young man. Verty, conscious of his secret, blushes and stammers; for how can he tell the Squire that Mr.
"A goddess with a god, to keep In endless youth, beneath the deep, Her solemn ocean-court! And still she smooths thine angry tides, Tames thy wild heart, and favoring guides The sailor to the port! Beautiful Helle, bright one, hear Thy lone adoring suppliant pray! And guide, O goddess guide my love Along the wonted way!"
But we must not look upon water only as a cutting instrument, for it does more than merely carve out land in one place, it also carries it away and lays it down elsewhere; and in this it is more like a modeller in clay, who smooths off the material from one part of his figure to put it upon another.
Well, it is no use being grieved, and after all, directly I come out and sit under the trees, and look at the dappled sky, and see the sunshine on the cornfields away on the plain, all the disappointment smooths itself out, and it seems impossible to be sad and discontented when everything about me is so radiant and kind.
Rolf fetched one; and the pilgrim, half-raising himself on the couch, sang the following words: "When death is coming near, When thy heart shrinks in fear And thy limbs fail, Then raise thy hands and pray To Him who smooths thy way Through the dark vale. Seest thou the eastern dawn, Hearst thou in the red morn The angel's song?
He preaches cruel sermons in his pulpit, cruel as death, and cold-blooded enough to freeze any mother's blood if nature did not tell her he lied, and then smooths it all over with the first good-looking young woman he can get to listen to him." Myrtle had dropped the slipper she was working on.
"I have every blessing," she wrote, "and I am happy. The conversation of my beloved husband, when my breath will let me have it, is my greatest delight: he procures me every comfort, and, as he always said he thought he should, contrives for me everything that can ease and assist my weakness, "'Like a kind angel, whispers peace, And smooths the bed of death."
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