All evils with which man is afflicted, are considered the work of these imaginary beings, whose favour must he propitiated by sacrifices, incantations, and songs.

That is some men's Goda God who must be propitiated by crouching and flattery, lest he should destroy thema God who holds all men as his slaves, and therefore hates pride in them.

We are often told that the offering of sacrifices had its origin in primitive man's conception of his gods as beings which required to be propitiated so as to induce them to do good or abstain from doing harm; and very likely this was the case.

"So great an interest as that of the Neapolitan should be propitiated." "But should he urge the state's resistance to his hopes?" returned the Signor Soranzo, in feeble objection to so bold a scheme.

Two or three well emptied bottles of wine yet remained; but as the healths of all the branches of the House of Brunswick had been propitiated from their contents, with a polite remembrance of Louis XVI.

That the supreme being may be more easily propitiated in one place than in another, is the dream of idle superstition; but that some places may operate upon our own minds in an uncommon manner, is an opinion which hourly experience will justify[a].

Indian sentiment is propitiated by not levying any tax on dogs, so the pariah cur, owned and disowned, in all stages of starvation, mange and disease, infests every town and village, lying in wait for the bacillus of rabies.

Many persons sat in sunny places by the roadsides to beg, with few to beg from,blind old men, and groups of children clamorous for coppers, but propitiated by sugar-plums.

These gods are extremely sensitive to disrespect or neglect, and unless they are constantly propitiated they will bring all sorts of disasters.

She brings pestilence, famine, war and sorrows and suffering of all kinds, and can only be propitiated by the sacrifice of life.

"Though to be sure," Kate further propitiated, resentment at having to do so growing with the propitiation, "that is very narrow of us.

So having uttered his curse, he laughed, and instantly went away, refusing to be propitiated or to throw any light upon the future.

The poet, it would seem, neither knew the lord nor the lady, but was doubtless propitiated upon the mournful occasion; nor was the application and fee judged more extraordinary than that probably offered, on the same occasion, to the divine who was to preach the Countess's funeral sermon.

He was convinced that they would never succeed in doubling it until it should be propitiated with a human offering.

On the sincerity and punctuality of this confession, I am willing to depend for all the future regard of mankind, and cannot but indulge some hopes, that they, whom my offence has alienated from me, may, by this instance of ingenuity and repentance, be propitiated and reconciled.

With a blow of his strong fist he shattered a priceless Venetian vase, shouting, "Thus will I treat thee and thine"to which she calmly responded, "You have broken one of the chief ornaments of your palace; do you think you have increased its charm?" For a time Peter refused to be propitiated; he would not speak to his wife, or share her meals or her room.

PUCK, a tricky, mischievous fairy, identified with Robin Goodfellow, and sometimes confounded with a house spirit, propitiated by kind words and the liberty of the cream-bowl.

The Australians have been very carefully studied by many observers, and the results entirely overthrow Mr. Huxley's bold statement that 'in its simplest condition, such as may be met with among the Australian savages, theology is a mere belief in the existence, powers, and dispositions (usually malignant) of ghost-like entities who may be propitiated or scared away; but no cult can properly be said to exist.

But the moral element is conspicuous, the reverence is conspicuous: we have here no mere ghost, propitiated by food or sacrifice, or by purely magical rites.

The distinction between the Australian deity, at his highest power, unpropitiated by sacrifice, and the ordinary, waning, easily forgotten, cheaply propitiated ghost of a tribesman, is essential.

If he is a deity of a rather lofty moral conception, of course he need not be propitiated by human sacrifices or cold chickens.

But if, as a result of the ghost theory, the Supreme Being came last in evolution, he ought to be the most fashionable object of worship, the latest developed, the most powerful, and most to be propitiated.

Such a person, if propitiated after death, might conceivably develop into a hero, if not into a creative being.

To her surprise, evidently, he came to me willinglyattracted, no doubt, by the gleam of the watch-chain about my neck, and still further propitiated by a portion of my orange, which he greedily devoured.

"Well, dear, have you propitiated him?" Walter hung his head sorrowfully, and said hardly anything.