31 examples of tranquillised in sentences

He addressed to her no language that could tranquillise her fears.

Those actresses are certain to tell people, and we shall have to make ourselves scarce.' I tried to cheer and tranquillise both him and M. Zola, and then arranged that Wareham should come to the hotel at 2 P.M.

The majority must put an end to all agitation in England, and tranquillise Ireland.

He left out the specific mention of the Relief and Franchise Bill, and there he was right, and he converted the prayer that the measure might tranquillise Ireland, &c., into a hope that it wouldthus making it a little stronger, but that he did not know.

Sebastiani and B. Constant expressed hopes that in a few months men's minds would be tranquillised, and things placed on a regular footing It seems that the King is at Trianon, with about 4,000 guards.

If I thought Reform would tranquillise the country I should be quite satisfied with a change of Ministers which would produce internal contentment, but that I do not expect.

The account of the King's manner of receiving the advice seemed to tranquillise those who had before been dissatisfied with the resolution which had been come to.

It was his favourite psalm, and always had a remarkable tranquillising effect upon him.

Still, by almost universal admission it has lost the tension that strained India two or three months ago, and public feeling is tranquillised, certainly beyond any expectation that either I or the Viceroy ventured to entertain.

He said that Victorine made him look ridiculous, that she was unappetising, without wit, and ugly enough to have tranquillised St. Anthony at his worst moment of temptationwhatever that means.

This interval in no degree contributed to tranquillise my mind.

Of all impossible social dreams that belief in tranquillised and submissive and virtuous Labour is the wildest of all.

The German High Command endeavours to tranquillise the German people by communiqués, the gist of which may thus be rendered in verse: In those very identical regions That sunder the Marne from the Aisne We advanced to the rear with our legions

Do all in your power to nerve and tranquillise her.

There is a composure and gravity in draughts, which insensibly tranquillises the mind; and, accordingly, the Dutch are fond of it, as they are of smoking, of the sedative influence of which, though he himself (Dr. Johnson) never smoked, he had a high opinion.

Before I was in bed my mind was already tranquillised.

With his friends it is different, for talking to congenial people with whom one is familiar is a process at once stimulating and tranquillising, and it is at such moments that ideas take swift and brilliant shape.

One felt that the aim of the circle was satisfaction rather than beauty; to be sheltered and caressed rather than to be invigorated and tranquillised.

The invalid tranquillised him.

"Tranquillise yourself, Don Sebastian.

It is partly good for the worker, to tranquillise his life and to reduce it to a certain order and discipline; but you mustn't do it only for the sake of your own tranquillity, any more than the artist must work for the sake of luxuriating in his own emotions.

A tranquillising spirit presses now On my corporeal frame, so wide appears The vacancy between me and those days Which yet have such self-presence in my mind, 30 That, musing on them, often do I seem Two consciousnesses, conscious of myself And of some other Being.

When Contemplation, like the night-calm felt Through earth and sky, spreads widely, and sends deep Into the soul its tranquillising power, Even then I sometimes grieve for thee, O Man, Earth's paramount Creature!

" Then schemes I framed more calmly, when and how 590 The madding factions might be tranquillised, And how through hardships manifold and long The glorious renovation would proceed.

And now? Through what subtle phases and developments had time led them to this moment of change and consciousness?representing in her, sharp recoil, an instant girding of the willand in him a new despair, which was also a new docility, a readiness to content and tranquillise her at any cost.

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