Every symptom she betrayed of confusion, was to him a symptom of something inexpressibly soothing.

And I can feelbut she's too young Yet blessings on her prattling tongue, She sweetly soothes my mother.'

and he soothed it very tenderly.

But gradually the beauty and peace of the pine-forests soothed me.

A wonderfully soothing effect they had.

To refuse Lister had cost her much, and although she had done so because she felt she ought, the sense of having carried out a duty was not remarkably soothing.

Lady Creedmore had been a beauty too, but at the present time she was stout and gouty, had a bad temper, and alternately soothed and irritated her complaint and her disposition by following cures or committing imprudences.

I often think, though I try to drive away the thought, how unspeakably soothing and happy it would have been to look back upon blows as must fall to the lot of all who live long, instead of to a life of many strange and unexpected and terrible shocks of many kinds.

Their pressure soothed her infinitely.

Sharon's reply, in a voice eminently soothing and by that calculated further to irritate the novice, was in effect that Rapp, Senior, might safely wager his available assets that Sharon Whipple could do better.

Mr. Burrell talked encouragingly, and quite succeeded in soothing him ere they separated.

From the village yonder voices and laughter fell faintly on his ear, and all these mingled sounds served but to accentuate the prevailing impression of peace and stillness; as John strolled onwards, his heavy steps crushing out the aromatic perfume of the thyme which grew profusely along the path, he was insensibly soothed and calmed by the evening quietude.

I humored his fancies, would often sing to him when he was restless, and my voice almost invariably soothed him to sleep.

He felt strangely blessed, soothed inwardly, made complete, and more than twice on the way down the name he knew must belong to her almost sprang up and revealed itselfyet never quite.

Hilda soothed her lightly.

The deep green of the highly reflective metal hull was marvelously soothing to the eye.

I hope he wasn't being merely soothing.

And yet, while it momentarily soothed him, he realised, with a heart sad for Beatrice as for himself, that it could never satisfy him again.

So I went to her room to see whether she needed any doctoring, but I found Metelill soothing her nicely, so I only kissed her (as I had not done these two nights).

His casual saunter down the quiet street was oddly soothing to his nerves, awoke happy, yet half-sad memories.

Tenderness is now peculiarly soothing to my wounded heart.

In real life, men are very rarely soothed by the sight of their women being tortured.

The finest piano-forte playing will damage the sick, while an air, like "Home, sweet home," or "Assisa a piè d'un salice," on the most ordinary grinding organ, will sensibly soothe themand this quite independent of association.

Except in moments of piercing agony, days and weeks afterwards, moments that were similarly soothed away again by that mysterious narcotic property which pain at its highest brings with it (pain at its highest being its own anaesthetic), Theophil never realised that Jenny had died, and least of all at the moment when she was dying.

Approaching "from the west, by what was then called the New Road (it is called so no longer, for we change our names whenever we can, to the great detriment of all historical association), you would pause on the brow of Symonds's Hill to enjoy a view singularly soothing and placid.