538 examples of allay in sentences

It was not thirst, nor yet a purpose to allay the very real physical burning of which I was now dimly conscious; but a craving for the liquid itself as something apart from and unconnected with anything else.

With finger in ear to allay the tickling sensation, JUDGE SWEENEY declares that this young man smelling of cloves is a person of great intellectual attainments, and understands the political genius of his country well enough to make an excellent Judge of Election.

This was my conditiona not unpleasant onewhen suddenly the now well-known symptoms of the visitation to which I had become subject suddenly seized upon me,the leap of the heart; the sudden, causeless, overwhelming physical excitement, which I could neither ignore nor allay.

To allay possible, though quite unreasonable, unrest, it was determined to open a British Club, or Rest Camp, at Sirmione, which, as every reader of Tennyson knows, stands on the tip of a long promontory at the southern end of Lake Garda.

The epithet flattered but did not allay her timidity.

He was proceeding to allay the pangs of hunger with selections from the tray of anchovies, sardines, pickled beet, and sliced sausage, when his host entered, voluble and irrepressible as ever.

To witness the French nun seeking to allay the hunger of these voracious schoolboy aliens was to picture a wren trying to fill the ever-gaping beaks of two young cuckoos whom an adverse fate had dropped into her nest.

And Mr. Osgood would have started at once for Hendrik, where he was not personally known to any one, to procure tidings of Miss Wimple and allay the anxiety of Mrs. Morris, had Madeline not found, that very day, her name in the Herald's list of letters waiting to be called for in the New York Post-Office.

Then the Amendment says "The present proposals of the Government of India are inadequate to allay the existing and growing discontent.

I wonder whether, when this House is asked to condemn the present proposals of the Government of India as being inadequate to allay the existing and growing discontent, it is realised exactly how the case stands.

Whether your apprehensions are well founded or not, it is the business of those who call themselves statesmen to take those apprehensions into account, and to do the best we can in setting up a working system to allay and meet such apprehensions.

He took a little on the spot to allay the cravings of hunger.

He went to a chemist's shop, bought a fresh supply of his poison, and, taking only enough to allay the cravings of his stomach, hurried tottering in the direction of Drury Lane.

Yet in so deep, so wild a groan, A sharper anguish seems to live Than life's expiring pang can give: He dies deserted, and alone If pity can allay thy woes Sad spirit they shall find repose Thy friend, thy long-lov'd friend is near!

And at that time what misery of that most nourishing family did I allay, or rather did I remove!

Thus released, the porter lost no time in dressing himself; and Leonard, to allay his terrors, had a strong dose of anti-pestilential elixir administered to him.

But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are they, As would but serve pure bodies for allay: 320 Such souls as shards produce, such beetle things As only buzz to heaven with evening wings; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance, Such are the blindfold blows of ignorance.

Nothing is more calculated to allay unnecessay and groundless fear, in the case of the cholera, than the undeniable fact of the smallness of the mortality in proportion to the whole population, where it has raged with most violence.

Their tongue, enfeebled, is refined too much; And, like pure gold, it bends at every touch: Our sturdy Teuton yet will art obey, More fit for manly thought, and strengthen'd with allay.

In her they met; but long they could not stay, 'Twas gold too fine to mix without allay.

A tearful wife and children gathered around the bed, formed an interesting group, and strove in vain to allay the agony of the husband and father.

An officer Has come from him already to allay Your apprehensions ere they come to birth.

Allay, appease, calm, pacify.

As the boarders approached the Morning Star, the terror of the females became excessive; they clung to their husbands in despair, who endeavored to allay their fears by their own vain hopes, assuring them that a quiet submission nothing more than the plunder of the vessel was to be apprehended.

Can time, can distance, can absence allay or extinguish the sentiments of refined affection, the ardor of true love?

538 examples of  allay  in sentences