"Soothingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stick.' He liked to break in his horses himself. Once a spirited horse he was training bolted with him down a hillside and over a precipice. 'Come, there, there, you young colt, you'll kill yourself!' said Ovsyanikov soothingly to him, and an instant later he flew over the precipice together with the racing droshky, the boy who was sitting behind, and the horse. Fortunately, the bottom of the ravine was covered with heaps of sand. No one was injured; only the horse sprained a leg. 'Well, you see,' continued Ovsyanikov ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev
... (1) Everywhere they gave consolatory assurances to the citizens that they had no intention of establishing fortress citadels within their walls, or in any way interfering with their self-government. (2) Such words fell soothingly upon the ears of those to whom they were addressed; the proposals were courteously accepted; all were eager to present Pharnabazus with gifts of friendship and hospitality. The satrap, indeed, was only applying the instructions of his master Conon on these matters—who had taught ...
— Hellenica • Xenophon
... in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst-suffering and the most restless, I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them, The restless sink in their beds, ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman
... back together," she said soothingly, "and then I must go and find Gertrude and tell her how ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... responded the physician, half coldly, half soothingly. "What should ail me to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe? The medicine is potent for good, and were it my child—yea, mine own, as well as thine! I could do no better ...
— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... so afraid you will be tired," murmured Mrs. Miller, soothingly. "Would you like me to send Miss Nevill up to your room? It might be pleasanter for you ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
... as the children approached, and regarded them attentively. "Billy! Billy! po' Ole Billy!" soothingly murmured Diddie, who had accompanied Dilsey and Chris with the omnibus, as she had more influence over Old Billy than anybody else. He came now at once to her side, and rubbed his head gently against her; and while she caressed him, Dilsey ...
— Diddie, Dumps, and Tot • Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle
... Mrs. Manstey, don't you worry," repeated Mrs. Black, soothingly. "I am sure we can settle it. I am sorry that I can't stay and talk about it any longer, but this is such a busy time of ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) • Edith Wharton
... writer's mind on what was available, pleasant, or useful: his ideas respecting all landscape being not uncharacteristially summed, finally, by Pallas herself; when, meeting Ulysses, who after his long wandering does not recognize his own country, and meaning to describe it as politely and soothingly as possible, she says:[108]—"This Ithaca of ours is, indeed, a rough country enough, and not good for driving in; but, still, things might be worse: it has plenty of corn, and good wine, and always rain, and soft nourishing dew; and it has good feeding for goats and ...
— Selections From the Works of John Ruskin • John Ruskin
... like that, old chap," he said soothingly. "I—we—all of us are doing our best. Now we won't bother about dressing; let's go straight in and thrash the thing out over ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... don't mind telling you,' said the giant, soothingly. 'The great she-eagle has got it for a nest-egg. She sits on it night and day, and thinks she will bring the greatest eagle out of it that ever sharpened his beak on the rocks of Mount Skycrack. I can warrant no one else will touch it while ...
— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 3 • George MacDonald
... and find out what the umpires will say. The Admiral won't be exactly pleased." Captain Malan spoke very soothingly. Moorshed looked out through the stern door at Two Six Seven. Pyecroft and I, at attention, studied the paintwork opposite. Captain Panke had dropped into his desk chair, and ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... sigh and her eyes grew dreamy as she fell to thinking of the future that lay before her. And as she planned with eager confidence her hand moved soothingly over the dog's head in measure to the languorous waltz ...
— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull
... will tell me about it another time,' said Mrs. Fairchild soothingly. 'Would it—excuse my suggesting it—would I be in the way if I stayed till they come? I have some experience as to chills and accidents of all sorts—and I would like to see ...
— The Rectory Children • Mrs Molesworth
... is aye a week," I said soothingly, for I was frightened at the wildness of her look, "and help ...
— Tales From Scottish Ballads • Elizabeth W. Grierson
... sweetly and soothingly, the trumpets sang a melody of other days, an air long loved in the old-time South. And Annie Laurie, weeping, heard and listened, and wept the more, and ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough
... position beside him. One night something startled them, and both flew wildly around the cage. I produced a light to show them the perches, so they might quiet themselves again. The male readily did so, but she remained on the lower perch. I went close to the wires and began to speak soothingly, to calm her, and induce her to resume her place, when, to my surprise, she began to reply to me, every time I spoke, standing less than a foot from me. She stared me full in the face, not at all disturbed, and answered every word I said with her musical ...
— In Nesting Time • Olive Thorne Miller
... miles; yet the impression, left on the mind is that these small centres of population are really few and far between. For not only are they small, but of the old, quiet, now almost obsolete type of village, so unobtrusive as to affect the mind soothingly, like the sight of trees and flowery banks and grazing cattle. The churches, too, as is fit, are mostly small and ancient and beautiful, half-hidden in their tree-shaded churchyards, rich in associations ...
— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson
... on the coat of gray, and sobbed; while her father stroked her hair and answered soothingly, but in a ...
— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple
... aboot that,' Macgregor said, soothingly. 'Send her a post caird an' let me get peace ...
— Wee Macgreegor Enlists • J. J. Bell
... hasty in your thought, not less than in its expression," said his uncle, soothingly, "I meant not what you think. But you must be aware, nephew, that my daughter, not less from the fortune which will be exclusively hers, and her individual accomplishments, than from the leading political station which her father fills, will be enabled ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms
... hear the musical stir of the night wind among boughs and branches of luxuriant foliage, while ever and anon it comes from afar with a deep-toned, solemn murmur, as though it swept o'er forests of cedar and mournfully-echoing pine. Still roaming on, the low rippling of flowing waters comes soothingly to our ears, and we pause on the bank of a flower-bordered river that goes sweetly singing on its way to the distant ocean. A tiny sailboat lies in a sheltering cove, rocked gently to and fro by the swaying ...
— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton
... said William Morris soothingly; 'it's lost time and strength, thee contending with the master. I don't like the business; but our orders are clear, and we must obey them. Thee let us in, and we'll carry the things down to the cinder-hill ...
— Fern's Hollow • Hesba Stretton
... returned Michael soothingly. "I rather like you than otherwise; there's such a permanent surprise about you, you look so dark and attractive from a distance. Do you know that to the naked eye you look romantic?—like what they call a man with a history? And indeed, from all that I can hear, the history of ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... don't mean to be bad," remarked Uncle Billy soothingly. "It's jus' 'cause he's so young an' onthinkin'. An' aftah all, it ain't what he does. It's mo' like what the white folks say in they church up on the hill. 'I have lef' undone the things what I ...
— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston
... beside her, cried, honestly and openly. "There!—now!" she said, patting Eleanor's shoulder; "don't you cry! Mrs. Curtis, now look,"—she spoke soothingly, as if to a child, with her arm around Eleanor—"you know I can't let my little boy go? Why, think how you'd feel yourself, if you had a little boy and anybody tried to get him. Would you give him up? 'Course you wouldn't! Why, I wouldn't let Jacky go away from me, ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
... I will make short work of the evil omen!" Love answered, gayly, as with two sharp blows of the racquet he carried in his hand he destroyed the ominous intruder on their peace, and kicked it aside, saying, soothingly: "Take that as an omen, darling, that I will always thrust aside whatever interferes between us ...
— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
... likely as not ye won't," remarked Mung Baw soothingly. "She has a rich relation up at Thayetmyo, and she's swithering between love and money. Perhaps, after all, money will carry the day. Well, now, I must be goin' to me duties—and me devotions, and I'll bid ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
... with anger, but before she could frame a reply, Mrs. Gray said soothingly "Children, children don't quarrel. David, it is getting late. We had better go. I suppose it is of no use to ask any of you athletic young folks to ride back to town." With a little bow to Miriam and her discomfited party, Mrs. ...
— Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School • Jessie Graham Flower
... amusing dialogue in a play, delivered by a veteran comic actress. Before she had ceased speaking he had burst into loud, irrepressible laughter. "Dear duchess, dear duchess," the marquis began to murmur, soothingly. Two or three persons came to the door of the room to see who was laughing at the duchess. But the lady continued with the soft, serene assurance of a person who, as a duchess, was certain of being listened to, and, as a garrulous woman, was independent of ...
— The American • Henry James
... The C.O. smiled soothingly. "My dear Wilson," he said to the Major, "I don't think it could have been one of our men. They have been warned so often. What do you say, ...
— Mud and Khaki - Sketches from Flanders and France • Vernon Bartlett
... Mr. Wells soothingly. "I wish we could have spared you the pain and publicity of an inquest, but of course it's quite unavoidable in the absence of ...
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles • Agatha Christie
... locate your bed of good-smelling things in the gap, and sup on nectar and distilled perfume," said The Man from Everywhere, soothingly. ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright
... with you," said Nycteris, soothingly. "I will take care of you till your dreadful sun comes, and then you may leave me, and go away as fast as you can. Only please put me in a dark place first, if there ...
— Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... in breakfast. "You jest tie into these vittles, boss, an' stop frettin'," the cook said soothingly. "I reckon Ole Think Box ...
— Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X • Victor Appleton
... could not choke back a laugh; though the poor Mistress looked horribly distressed at the maniac outburst, and strove soothingly to check it. She, like the Master, remembered now that Cyril's doting mother had spoken of the child's occasional fits of red wrath. But this was the first glimpse either of them had had of these. Hitherto, craft had served Cyril's ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... Jarl Harald's son it should be," Tyrker said soothingly. "On a Viking voyage he is absent. Besides, out of breath it puts me fast to ride. Some one else have you mistaken. Three years it has been since you ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... charming wife under such a good and sweet and kindly aspect. "If I have given her a soul," he could not help saying to himself, "I have indeed given her a better one than my own;" and his only thought now was to speak soothingly to the weeping Undine, and on the following morning to quit with her a place which, after this incident, must have become distasteful to her. It is true that she was not estimated differently to what she had been. As something mysterious had long been expected of her, the strange discovery ...
— Undine - I • Friedrich de la Motte Fouque
... field and Blackwell went limping out to take his place. The Canton team lined up for the try at goal. Rudolph was regaining his senses and struggling to be in action again. Judd leaned over toward him. "You're out of it, old man," he said, soothingly. Judd thought this remark would be a great relief to one who had received such a jolt as Rudolph. But Rudolph only glared at him as another cheer told plainly that Canton had kicked goal. Score seven to nothing ... favor of Canton. Referee's ...
— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman
... no defilement," interposed Miriam soothingly. "Hast thou not told us how our fathers went to the Sistine Chapel on ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... Bennett could not help relaxing the grip of outraged law, and patting the young man's shoulder soothingly as it rose and fell. He had no fit weapons of roughness and oppression with which to oppose this child-like grief; he could only ...
— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton
... chap." Arnold Bates, who wrote light society novels, spoke soothingly. "It is—rotten. But what are you going to do ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... Adam soothingly and eyeing me anxious-eyed. "She is the lady Joanna that you preserved from death and worse, ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol
... said Caliste, soothingly, "weep not for me, dear Victorine. Alas! if you but knew the feelings of my heart only a moment back, you would loath me, and cast me from you. Ah! shall ...
— The Young Lord and Other Tales - to which is added Victorine Durocher • Camilla Toulmin
... Chum Larry," said Phil soothingly. "This stationary top would keep him from getting aboard, you see. But in case you hear a shot during the night, just remember ...
— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne
... girl took her companion in her arms and rocked her back and forth soothingly, and petted and reassured her, and then cried a little with her, as a good-hearted girl always will with a friend. Then she left her for the night with many a cheering word and tender caress. "Get to sleep, dear," she ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington
... everything," said D'Arbino, soothingly. "Trust in us to the end. What do you wish to ...
— After Dark • Wilkie Collins
... tone came gently and soothingly upon Lionel's ear; and withal there spread over Caroline's face a gleam of joy, and then a quiet stillness, as of a freedom from suffering. There was an interval—a ...
— The Two Guardians • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... as of a great sob which he had been unable to control cut short his speech. His eyes filled with tears and he began to smoke furiously as if ashamed of this display of emotion. Stott, blowing his nose with suspicious vigor, replied soothingly: ...
— The Lion and The Mouse - A Story Of American Life • Charles Klein
... hearing, that Arthur must compose himself before returning to her—agitation would be at once fatal. Arthur had thrown himself on the sofa, with his face hidden in his hands, in such overpowering distress, that his brother's displeasure could not continue for a moment, and he began to speak soothingly of ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Patience! Patience!" he said soothingly, "Perchance we must say"— this with a flash of derision from his dark crafty eyes, "that a prophet hath arisen in Israel! Listen to me, boy! If Christ spoke as plainly as you say, and if all He preached could be understood by the people, why should ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... shone with gratitude as he took her hand. Tatiana Markovna felt that she had gone too far, and had promised more than she could perform. She withdrew her hand, and said soothingly: "She is still very unhappy, and would not understand at present. First of all she must be ...
— The Precipice • Ivan Goncharov
... afterward, my boy," Mr. Slocum explained soothingly. "When—say—when you are ready to enter the university. At that time a year abroad would be a very good thing... ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London
... ma'am," said the Stein-bok soothingly. "I heard it from the Chamois, who have a habit of bounding about everywhere, as you know. Your dear husband reached the middle of the Glacier in safety, when—being hampered by a satchel and a green cotton umbrella—he fell ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... hand on his arm soothingly. "Is it worth while talking about that awful time? It is so far away now." She shuddered slightly at the thought of all the horrible years which had passed over her young head; never guessing that for him the ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... you all to witness that I am not the property of this insolent fellow, who fancies that my silence is worth no more than five hundred francs. You will never be a minister if you cannot gauge people's consciences. There, my good Finot," he added soothingly, "I will get on with my story without personalities, ...
— The Firm of Nucingen • Honore de Balzac
... said, soothingly, "why we should correct harsh judgments that spring from mere rumors. You should give yourself at least the chance of overcoming your prejudices, my child. Remember, too, that she is now ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... all these things were but the idle garniture of a tale that had lost its meaning to Ralph this morning; but yet in time the sense that the beauty and hope of life lay about him stole soothingly upon his soul. He was glad to breathe the gracious breaths of spraying honeysuckle running its creamy riot of honey-drenched petals over the hedges, and flinging daring reconnaissances even to the tops of the dwarf birches ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... Psmith soothingly. "In the first place, however, this matter of Comrade Spaghetti's rent. Sooner than see that friend of my boyhood slung out to do the wandering-child- in-the-snow act, I will brass ...
— Psmith, Journalist • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... if I sent for him," I replied soothingly. "He is two miles away from here trenching the North Wall, and I have nobody to send. The messenger would have to run the gauntlet of the ...
— Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories • Henry Seton Merriman
... replied the Raja: "Time is none Now to delay." Vahuka answered quick (His own set purpose serving): "Stay this space, Or by thyself drive on! The road is good, The son of Vrishni will be charioteer!" On that the Raja answered soothingly:— "There is not in the earth another man That hath thy skill; and by thy skill I look To reach Vidarbha, O thou steed-tamer! Thou art my trust; make thou not hindrance now! Yet would I suffer, too, what thou dost ask, If thou couldst surely reach Vidarbha's gate Before yon sun hath sunk." ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
... smilingly drew it out from the inside pocket of her jacket. "There, there!" she said soothingly. "Here it is, dearest child. I thought it safer to take it along with me than to leave ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... Jawleyford soothingly, as soon as she saw it was not what she expected. 'Oh, my dear, I'm sure there's nothing to make you put yourself so much out of the way.' 'No!' roared Jawleyford, determined not to be done out of his grievance. 'No!' repeated he; 'do ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... yourself, my dear sir," the Doctor said soothingly, "agitation now would be a very serious thing. Drink ...
— Captain Bayley's Heir: - A Tale of the Gold Fields of California • G. A. Henty
... at all," said Doctor Ralph, soothingly, taking her hot hand in his. "You're hurt, and you've been bothered, and if you want to cry, you can. Here's ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... the devil could have prompted the lad to play such a trick, but I can't help it, I must laugh at it all the same." "Oh, of course," said Mrs. Nuessler crossly, "of course you do nothing but laugh while we are like to break our hearts with grief and anger." "Never mind me," said Braesig soothingly, "tell me, what did the Methodist do? Ha, ha, ha! I'd have given a good deal for a sight of his face!" "You would, would you? Of course he couldn't preach the same sermon in the afternoon, so the parson had to give his people one of his old sermons over again; but he was ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various
... doon and talk things over wi' yo'." he said soothingly. But before he could withdraw, M'Adam had jerked his weapon to his shoulder and aimed it full ...
— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant
... she will," said Mr. Smith, soothingly. "Come over and 'ave a drink with me, Dan'l it's your turn ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... her mother said soothingly, as she cut out the other leg of Jimmy's pants. "The Lord made us right I guess, and he won't let anything ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung
... surprise as was my dearest father's visit! How softly and soothingly it has rested ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... don't know how far you were justified," he began, soothingly. "And the general himself may not be exactly informed. Those people have been ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... remarked I, soothingly, to him. "Yoo'll git your apintment, becoz, for the fust time in the history uv this or any other Republic, there's a market for jist sich men ez yoo; but all this blather won't fetch ...
— "Swingin Round the Cirkle." • Petroleum V. Nasby
... skipper alone, Dick," whispered Holmes soothingly, in his chum's ear. "He knows his business, if ever a ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants - or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers • H. Irving Hancock
... Dorothy's soft hair gently, and spoke soothingly to her, begging her to be a good girl and not cry, and to remember what a bright, happy little miss she was, and what a beautiful home she had, and how young folk ought always to be ...
— Donald and Dorothy • Mary Mapes Dodge
... distressed at any attempt I made to lift her, and by her gestures I fancied she thought I was going to kill her. At least my patience began to be exhausted, but I did not like to annoy her. I spoke to her as gently and soothingly as I could. By degrees she seemed to listen with more composure to me, though she evidently knew not a word of what I said to her. She rose at last, and taking my hands, placed them above her head, stooping ...
— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill
... you must try to keep quiet," he interrupted soothingly. "It will all come out right, ...
— The Mansion of Mystery - Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective • Chester K. Steele
... had suffered himself to become much excited. Seeing this, his wife recovered, to some extent, her own self-possession, and spoke to him soothingly. ...
— True Riches - Or, Wealth Without Wings • T.S. Arthur
... mine begins to pay it will keep on paying for ever so long. You can plan to spend all the money you can possibly use, if the mine has any kind of vein in it," said Kenneth, soothingly. ...
— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... you. I've been intermit with 'em.... I've blacked their boots." The cook, craning his neck to hear better, was scandalised. "Keep your mouth shut when your elders speak, you impudent young heathen—you." "All right, old Hallelujah, I'm done," answered Charley, soothingly. At some opinion of dirty Knowles, delivered with an air of supernatural cunning, a ripple of laughter ran along, rose like a wave, burst with a startling roar. They stamped with both feet; they turned their shouting ...
— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad
... forgive me, dearest," said Vargrave, soothingly; "I was to blame, forgive me: but you irritated, you maddened me, by your seeming indifference to my prosperity, my fate. I tell you again and again, pride of my soul, I tell you, that you are the only being I love! and if you will allow me, if you will rise superior, as I once fondly hoped, to ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... excitement and hysterical exaltation. All the night she had been calm and quiet, repressing her feelings, and tending the man she loved. Now, with some one to whom she could confide, she was calm no longer. Keziah answered her soothingly, questioning her from time to time, until, at last, ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... matter, anyway," she went on soothingly. "I'd rather a man would be clever than handsome;" then she added conscientiously, "only I'd ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... it," said Barbara, soothingly, as though she had read his thought, "and, besides, I've been too busy, except Sundays. But sometimes, when I've heard the shore singing as the tide came in, and seen the gulls fly past my window, and smelled the salt mist—oh, I've ...
— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed
... the chubby man said soothingly. That was easier said than done. I stared at him in growing panic and demanded, "But, but, have ...
— The Planet Savers • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... "My dearest," he said soothingly, "do not excite yourself in this fashion. It can make no difference to me that there should be mystery or tragedy in your past life. Have I not always loved you? Have we not chosen the same path in life, only now we shall tread it side by side, not one far ...
— The Mystery of a Turkish Bath • E.M. Gollan (AKA Rita)
... said his mother soothingly, "I will see Ellen Glynde to-morrow, and try to make her say something to Dora. A girl's mother has always more influence ...
— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman
... to tell me,' I said soothingly after a pause. 'You have had one of your men in Mr. Summertrees' house, and so learned that he is not the coiner. But your man has not succeeded in getting you evidence to incriminate ...
— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr
... said soothingly, taking the trembling little girl on to her lap. "Don't worry about anny t'ing that wan says. 'Tis a foine little shop you have, as all ...
— Maida's Little Shop • Inez Haynes Irwin
... down-stream across the slack of an eddy. Farther out, the stream frothed furiously among great boulders and then leaped in a wild white rush down a rapid, though here and there a narrow strip of green water appeared in the midst of the latter. The deep roar it made broke soothingly through the drowsy heat, and Ida listened languidly while she watched the pines ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... it does not much matter,' said Ethelberta, kissing Picotee soothingly. 'You ought not of course to have come to London in such a manner; but, since you have come, we will make the best of it. Perhaps it may end happily for you ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... hope you'll not look at it that way," she said half soothingly. "It might suit your own feelings better, but what about ours? I have often said," and her eyebrows arched plaintively, "that your singing did me ...
— The First Soprano • Mary Hitchcock
... Wilford had repented of his rashness, but never by a word had he admitted such repentance to any living being, and when on the dark, rainy afternoon which first saw him in the hospital, he turned his face to the wall and wept, he replied to one who said to him soothingly: ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... said Farmer Giles soothingly; 'I won't hurt him. We must see where he is bitten; perhaps I can put him to rights. You let me carry him home. There, see, he's been bitten in his neck, but you're hurting him, holding him so tightly! You let me carry him for you, and you can ...
— Odd • Amy Le Feuvre
... into working order pretty quickly, and only her quivering lips would have betrayed her to a more discerning person. Mrs. Stone, however, saw nothing but an inclination to weep, and, stooping over Toinette, said, soothingly: "There, there, dear, don't hurry to rise, you are a little nervous this morning ...
— Caps and Capers - A Story of Boarding-School Life • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... and a comfort, too, in spite of my misery, in the recollection that I had confessed my sin—that it was no longer a dread secret in my own sole keeping, but was shared by the strong, tender hearts, of my parents: and it seemed to come soothingly to my mind that now the barrier of sin might be taken away, and my heart rose once again in earnest prayer to God for forgiveness. Then I began to think about the great things of eternity my mother had spoken of; and of the meeting-time for those who were parted on earth, of Aleck, and of Old George, ...
— The Story of the White-Rock Cove • Anonymous
... in the morning," replied Tom soothingly. "Lie down, and I'll bring them to you in the morning. And drink this," he added, holding out a glass of soothing mixture which the doctor had ordered in case the patient should ...
— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton
... removed the clinging arms, and kissed them, and set the half-weeping child back in her place. "There, there, there!" he said, soothingly. "What a little ...
— Captain January • Laura E. Richards
... she can paint sound, and distance, and scenery, and the turn of the seasons, and the two magics of two atmospheres. "Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing; and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf. At Wuthering Heights it always sounded on quiet days following a great thaw or ...
— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair
... I responded soothingly, "but this I say now to comfort you. Calli is no match for our Max. In the combat that is to come, Max can kill him if he chooses, barring accidents and treachery. Over and above his prowess, his cause, you know, is just, and for that reason God ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... her jar you, Billie," said Ben, soothingly. "If you want to forget your troubles, just have a look at Nancy-Bell. She looks like a fashion plate lady standing on ...
— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes
... hurt 'em," said her friend soothingly. "I'll tell Mr. Armatage and he will go down ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's • Laura Lee Hope
... Mr. Orgreave soothingly admonished her from the back of the sofa. She turned her head and looked up at him, smiling in ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... murmured, soothingly. "Didn't you know your old auntie would come to you? Why didn't you cable? Didn't you know I was right at the end of the wire. There now, cry all you want to. It'll do you good. Your old auntie has come to take all your troubles away, and see you happily ...
— The Street Called Straight • Basil King
... said the man, laying his hand soothingly on Lynde's arm, and looking at him steadily. "Everything will be satisfactorily explained ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... Ducret soothingly. "I will give you your answer to-morrow at ten." She emphasized the hour, because she knew at sunrise a special train would carry her husband and herself to Leopoldville, and that there one of her husband's steamers would bear them across the ...
— Once Upon A Time • Richard Harding Davis
... was only having a game of cricket with you," said Davy, soothingly. "You were the ball, ...
— Davy and The Goblin - What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' • Charles E. Carryl
... began violently, then abruptly caught control of himself and went on soothingly, "you'd better take a drink and think it over. That's my advice to you. Of course, when you do get cool, after talking to me in this fashion you won't want to stay on any longer, so while you're getting that drink I'll call the boat's-crew and launch a boat. You'll ...
— Adventure • Jack London
... Elsie spoke soothingly to her; said she should have some broth from the house, and should be excused from work till the doctor pronounced her quite fit for it again; and ...
— Elsie's Womanhood • Martha Finley
... there live all before me as if it were but of yesterday. I heard the frequent discharging of muskets, and the yells of the savages. Yet I sat there among the branches, as safe in the arms of Jesus. Never, in all my sorrows, did my Lord draw nearer to me, and speak more soothingly in my soul, than when the moonlight flickered among these chestnut leaves, and the night air played on my throbbing brow, as I told all my heart to Jesus. Alone, yet not alone! If it be to glorify my God, I will not grudge to spend many ...
— The Story of John G. Paton - Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals • James Paton
... Luis returned; and so colourless were his lips, so wild his eyes, so dreadfully agitated his entire appearance that I saw in a moment something had gone very radically wrong somewhere. Dona Inez saw it too, and approaching, laid her hand soothingly upon his arm ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... been when he went to sea. When Miles told him that Mr Griffiths and Dr Cockle were with me—the gentlemen father had put on board their ship at the time he had joined the Lapwing—he seemed to have no doubt on the matter, and by degrees, with Miles speaking soothingly to him, the balance of his mind seemed gradually to be restored. He still found, however, a great difficulty in speaking; he had been so long without uttering a word except when he talked to his ...
— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston
... "No," she replied, soothingly; "when you sent me away I could not leave you alone with those dreadful men; so, meaning to hide just below the curbing of the well, I took hold of the rope; but the windlass was free, and ...
— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... soothingly. "Whoa, Jerry! Whoa, Bill!" And thus he continued to talk to the team while the sleigh bumped along through the deep snow and ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer
... over me. I sank on the ground. My mind was full of horrid thoughts. I prayed to die; but the prayer was not answered. At last, with great effort I roused myself, and walked some distance further, to the house of a woman who had been a friend of my mother. When I told her why I was there, she spoke soothingly to me; but I could not be comforted. I thought I could bear my shame if I could only be reconciled to my grandmother. I longed to open my heart to her. I thought if she could know the real state of the case, and all I had been ...
— Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Written by Herself • Harriet Jacobs (AKA Linda Brent)
... old fellow," said Dick soothingly. "Remember it's their game, not ours, and as it makes them feel good, it's all the better for us. Since they've beaten us, they're apt to like us and ...
— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler
... she told him soothingly. "I don't think you're a bit to blame, Alan. Nobody could think so. Ever so many times I've heard Dad say that when a man gets the drop on you there's nothing to do ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine
... going. He'll stay here," she said soothingly. He had evidently not observed the packed and labeled trunks when he came in. He seemed suddenly to see them now, and rose ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... admonished Anderson soothingly. "Don't git excited, Alf. You deserve a lot o' credit. Ain't many men, I tell you, could break off ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... feel," answered Miss Douglass soothingly. "I am that way myself sometimes. It's not professional, I know, but when you have been successful in two or three bad cases you think you can always win; and then when you lose the next case you believe that somehow ...
— A Man's Woman • Frank Norris
... can't blame you," he admitted soothingly, "for I don't always understand myself. But really, my dear, you're not seeing this in the right light. Oh, I'm not going to defend myself. It's sad, very sad, but I'll confess I'm no chromo of sweet and haloed rectitude to be held up for the encouragement and beatification ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... shall," whispered Miss Nevin soothingly, "but not until the concert is over. If we tell her now, Guido, it will upset her so that she can't appear again this evening, and ...
— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower
... see that she bent her head lower over the sofa, and he went on speaking earnestly and soothingly, ...
— Garman and Worse - A Norwegian Novel • Alexander Lange Kielland
... me wash it, dear," said Pearl soothingly. "We cannot tell how badly you are hurt until we get the dirt off. It may not be so ...
— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung
... to encourage the Gibraltar man; and Susan, saying soothingly, "Yes, yes, Georgie;—never mind Davie, we'll make up for it; I can't vex him," had taken the little fellow in ...
— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge
... said soothingly; "now lay still or you'll hurt the little beauty. I'm going to fix something comforting ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock |
