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Updated: June 14, 2025
If Tira was to fight this desperate battle all her mortal life, he wasn't to be placated by the rewarding certainty of a heavenly refuge at the end. "I can never," he said, "get over the monstrous queerness of it all. Here's a woman that's got to be saved, and she's so infernally obstinate we can't save her.
He rose, took down the offending footgear, and tossed them through the open door into the next room. They thumped on the floor, and Sheila was not placated. "That's just as bad. Why, they were covered with dried mud, and now it's all over the floor. You're shockingly careless. Don't you know that that makes work?" "For Feng, you mean. That's what I pay him for only he doesn't do it."
By advice of the Sibylline books, the Senate ordained solemnities and public prayer to Vulcan, Ceres, and Proserpina. Matrons made offerings to Juno; a whole procession of them went to the seashore to take water and sprinkle with it the statue of the goddess. Married women prepared feasts to the gods and night watches. All Rome purified itself from sin, made offerings, and placated the Immortals.
It certainly was the same maiden, his cruel enchantress; but where did she get those absurd garments? "Willkommen," said a stout figure, advancing with some authority, and seizing his disengaged hand, "where hast thou been so long?" Mr. Clinch, by no means placated, coldly dropped the extended hand. It was NOT the proprietor he had known.
To the Africans the forces of nature were often injurious and always impressive. To invest them with spirits disposed to do evil but capable of being placated was perhaps an obvious recourse; and this investiture grew into an elaborate system of superstition. Not only did the wind and the rain have their gods but each river and precipice, and each tribe and family and person, a tutelary spirit.
Shortly after, however, a new governor came to relieve him of further responsibility. Charles II. had probably placated the Spanish ambassador in 1670 by promising the removal of Modyford and the dispatch of another governor well-disposed to the Spaniards.
Joe Lunids is my name." "I'm Texas Lou," said the girl. There was a subdued chuckle from the darkness. "You sound kind of young for a name like that, kid. Leastwise, your voice is tolerable young." "I'm old enough," said Jig aggressively. "Sure, sure," placated the other. "Sure you are." "Besides," she went on, "I wanted a name that I could grow up to."
Subsequently, "the two Johnsons," as they were styled by the members, were ousted, the House refusing very properly to recognize either. Thomas Johnson exhibited some show of temper, but was placated by the good sense of his rival, who proposed that they should strike for two Territories instead of one. Why not; was not Nebraska large enough for both?
Therefore Plank must have been placated by Leila; how, Mortimer was satisfied not to know. "Some of these days," he said to himself, "I'll catch her tripping, and then there'll be a decent division of property, or there'll be a divorce."
He forbade the slightest act of injustice or disrespect towards the Indians. Whenever a captive was taken, he treated him as a father would treat a child, and returned him to his home laden with presents. He availed himself of every opportunity to send friendly messages to Ucita. But the mutilated chief was in no mood to be placated. His only reply to these kind words was,
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