Siren, now mince the sin, And mollifydamnation with a phrase.
Thy tears are of no force tomollify This flinty man.
She had a fearfully sharp tongue, and a still sharper wit in directing it upon her victims; her experiences were not very likely to edulcorate her acids and mollify her asperities.
No, sir, no plot; but some expedient then, tomollify the word, when your invention has failed you?
The Federal papers have heard of the failure to take Charleston, and the sinking of the Keokuk; and yet they strive to mollify the disaster, and represent that but little damage was sustained by the rest of the fleet.
The Federal Secretary of War has issued a statement to mollify the panic.
But now I shall assemble them, and by a sort of Christmas story, endeavor to mollify my wife's anticipated displeasure.
In order to mollify the tribes, it was proposed to hold the negotiations at the falls of the Muskingum river, in what the Indians were pleased to term "their own country" and "beyond the guns of any fort.
This inquiry did not, as we may suppose, mollify the giant, who laid on his blows so sharply and heavily that Tom was obliged to defend himself.
Hercules had been warned to take a black dog to sacrifice to Hecate and a cake to mollify Cerberus, as was usual; but he would not listen to such tales and meant to force his way to Theseus.
She sat glum and statuesque; but I did not attempt either to brave or to mollifyher displeasure, for I knew that compared with the secret in my possession, the wretched affair with Paul Barr would seem to her a mere trifle.
Pedrillo Pedrugo seated him in a chair, threw a napkin round his neck, put a basin of hot water under his chin, and began to mollify his beard with his fingers.
This kind-hearted damsel had from the first evinced a deep sympathy in his fortunes, and having in vain tried to mollify the governor, had set to work privately to mitigate the rigor of his dispensations.
It is not to soften us to suffering innocence and virtue, but to mollify us to the crimes and to the society of robbers and ruffians.
The amendments were offered as a measure of prudence to mollify the disaffected.
That can with melting pleasure mollify Their harden'd hearts inur'd to cruelty.
This kind-hearted damsel had from the first evinced a deep sympathy in his fortunes, and having in vain tried to mollify the governor, had set to work privately to mitigate the rigour of his dispensations.
Roca, the recent President, is an outside man, and the Buenos Ayrians determined to prevent his inauguration or overthrow his government; but to mollify them he announced a great scheme of building a new capital at Government expense.
Were these editorials, with the head-lines, intended to mollify and quiet the mob?
The rogue has no mercy in him; but I must mollifyhim with money.
From the very beginning of his Administration, he did all that was possible to mollify their resentment and calm their real or pretended fears.
Every concession made by the President to the enemies of slavery has only one aim; it is to mollify their urgent demands by throwing to them small crumbs, as one tries to mollify a boisterous and hungry dog.
A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action.
Thy tears are of no forcetomollify This flinty man.
Haven't you got somethin' in your medicine-case you could mollify him with?
But for Germanicus he asked the Proconsular power; and to carry him that dignity, honourable deputies were sent, as also to mollify his sorrow for the death of Augustus.
Thither they retire for shelter in the winter, and thither convey their grain: for by such close places they mollify the rigorous and excessive cold.
At last we bethought us we would once more endeavour tomollify our lord and husband.
Then we, together with our beloved children, prostrated ourselves before his Princely Highness, hoping thereby to mollify him.
