Every wound is not healed by the same plaster; assuage inflammations by lenitives.
Why wast thou not here, from the beginning of my conflict, to assuage my pains!
Once, in a fit of exquisite pain, he begged our Redeemer to assuage it: and that instant he found it totally removed, and he fell into a gentle slumber.
To alleviate the distresses of life; to mitigate the fierceness of passion or the violence of grief; to assuage angry feeling; to allay wounded sensibility.
Assuage supposes something violent which is quieted; as, to assuage one's sorrow.
How appallingly strange that a phase of hate should assuage the pain in any heart.
You were sent by a kind Providence toassuage my great sorrow, Belle-Ann.
It has not pleased the Almighty to assuage my dying hour, and I go with the conviction that my child will suffer want and wretchedness on earth!
Mozwa, who was very fond of his friend, and pitied him sincerely, made no attempt to comfort him, for he knew the nature of the man too well to think that by any words he could assuage his sorrow.
Aglootook did go on, and kept going on so long that his audience were forced to go off and assuage the pangs of hunger which prolonged abstinence and mental excitement at last rendered unendurable.
This Sir William married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Neville, of Hornby Castle, and by her had a son, Sir Thomas Harrington.
For more than six months I had to stanch the tears and assuage the grief of Mademoiselle.
He fled in disgust from the monastery, and this fresh annoyance served, in some degree, to assuage his grief.
I will not tell you that time will assuage the sorrow that now seems insupportable--for you wouldn’t believe me if I did.
Turgesius turned his face away from the house of death, and departed for his own stronghold, where with alternate sports and revels he endeavoured to assuage disappointment and obliterate recollection.
Whatever her anxiety to learn the facts, she never put a single question to me as we went along, her sole care being to do whatever might assuagemy pain and alleviate my suffering.
His friends and neighbours edified his ears with as many taunts and jeers as Saint Jacques had the honour of receiving in Compostella, but the poor fellow took it so to heart, that at last they tried rather to assuage his grief.
They had hoped against hope, and fought their suspicions until they were tired, and then they sought in sympathy to assuage the pangs of their losses and disappointments.
They assuage the sorrows of childhood, and minister to the poor and distressed.
By such a course you will do much to assuage the sorrows and to increase the joys and pleasures of life.
The soul of him who writes this song; Purge the souls of those that read From every fault of thought and deed; With thy blessed lightassuage The darkness of this evil age!
But thou, O King, this grievous wound relieve; Assuage the pain, and give me strength to urge My Lycian comrades to maintain the war, And fight myself to guard the noble dead.
The leech shall tend thy wound, and spread it o'er With healing ointments to assuage the pain.
Prays she Venus toassuage The hurricane's increasing rage, And to sooth the billows' scorn.
The diplomacy of the United States is active in seeking to assuage the remaining ill-feeling between this country and the Republic of Colombia.
O Lord of the gods, be gracious unto him and assuage his mind's fever.
I had hitherto borne these insufferable pangs, waiting for the time (when thy son could assuage them).
After this, during all her life, Anne watched for every opportunity to do good, and she was continually engaged in gentle but effective efforts to heal dissensions, to assuage angry feelings, and to alleviate suffering.
In each and every case it is our bounden duty to do all in our power to assuage sufferings to which we may have been accessory.
He thought it better, as better it was, to assuage his bruised dignity with half a yard square of balmy diplomatic diachylon.
But this was no fault in the royal donor, or in his ministers, who were pleased, in acknowledging the merits of an invalid servant of the public, to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man.
