We shall have to kill the children to placate our thirst with their blood.
Again he had cut off the hands of the conquered to dedicate them to the god of the tribe, nailing them to the chieftain's door to placate the divinity.
Their captains and passengers no longer prepare for departure with sacrifices to placate the gods, and after returning, they don't traipse in wreaths and gold ribbons to say thanks at the local temple.
We absolutely must bag some game to placate this man-eater, or one of these mornings master won't find enough pieces of his manservant to serve him.
For example, he fears and attempts to placate the being whom he deems to cause the thunder and lightning.
He hoped really to placate Butler in part by his generous attitude throughout this procedure.
He would like very much to placate him if he could, to talk out the hard facts of life in a quiet and friendly way.
Meanwhile in order to placate provincial commanders, a "Palace of Generals," was created in Peking to which were brought all men it was held desirable to emasculate.
Valdez tried to placate both him and the planters, and between the two promptly fell down and won the enmity of both.
He dismissed two of his servants[5], suspected by his father of fomenting trouble between them, and he showed himself in general very willing to placate paternal displeasure.
The envoys sent by Louis to placate the duke's resentment at the incidents in connection with the Warwick affair, and to assure him that Louis meant well by him and his subjects, found Charles holding high state at St. Omer.
He thought the king might either try to enter the city ahead of him and manage to placate his ancient allies by a specious explanation, or else he might succeed in effecting his escape without fulfilling his compact.
And yet the reign of Abderrahman was by no means a peaceful one, as he had to placate the many different sects and tribes of his own countrymen on the one hand, and the Jews and Christians on the other.
I don't know what has come over him, but there's nothing one can do to placate him.
Their open hostility roused all the haughty arrogance of Hamilton's nature, and he made no effort to placate them.
He was in a humour to insult the shade of Washington, and he delighted in every opportunity to wreak vengeance on Hamilton, and would have died by his hand rather than placate him.
In one of these fragments the Salii placate Leucesius, the god of lightning.
In another the Arval Brethren placate Mars or Marmar, the god of pestilence and blight (lues rues).
By these priestesses the Indians performed their superstitious rites and sacrifices, when they wished to placate their anitos or obtain anything from them.
When they began a voyage by sea or by the rivers, they threw into the water a certain quantity of their food out of reverence for the devil, in order to placate him so that he might give them success.
The Indians felt this very much, and made many sacrifices to placate him, supposing he had grown silent from anger; but they could not succeed in drawing a single word from him.
To placate him, the physician orders that warm water be given him in the dark, and he be told that it is wine.
He sent messengers to Esau to placate him, and they said unto him: "Thus speaketh thy servant Jacob: My lord, think not that the blessing which my father bestowed upon me profited me.
It is a fact that until Lamar delivered his eulogy on Sumner not a Southern man of prominence used language calculated to placate the North, and between Lamar and Grady there was an interval of fifteen years.
In spite of their lack of representative character it was not easy to repress impatience at ebullitions of misguided zeal so ignoble; and of course it was not possible to dissuade or placate them.
He had been put on the ticket with Garfield to placate Conkling.
The cult of dangerous animals is due (a) to the fear that the soul of the slain beast may take vengeance on the hunter, (b) to a desire to placate the rest of the species.
Another account is that the name comes from Ka-awhi, to recite the usual karakia on landing on a new shore, to placate the local gods.
These considerations were, however, altogether outweighed by the desire to placate the settlers, who were clamouring for their land, and to prevent the exposure of the Company's inability to fulfil its engagements.
It was Hilda who, furnished with notes and cheque, had gone, in Edwin's cab, toplacate the higher powers.
He considered his room as his castle, whereof his rightful exclusive dominion ran as far as the door-mat; and to placate his pride Darius should have indicated by some gesture or word that he admitted being a visitor on sufferance.
His difficulty is how to control or placate those invisible but very real powers upon which he believes everything depends.
Primitive thought assumes a supernatural agency as the cause of disease, and seeks, logically, to placate it by prayer or coerce it by magic.
The girl had no idea of Brace's suspicion of her, nor did any uneasy desire to placate or deceive a possible rival of Low's prompt her graciousness.
The proponents of the Direct Primary bill, on the other hand, seemed possessed of the notion that they must placate the machine if any Direct Primary bill were to be passed.
The extreme partisanship of its provisions and the failure to provide for popular selection of United States Senators hurt the measure with its friends, and failed to placate its enemies.
If the framers of the Wright-Stanton Primary bill thought that their compromise on the United States Senator feature of the measure would placate the machine, they were much disappointed.
As to trying to placatehim by anything like an apology: preposterous suggestion!
Doctor Fuller looked smilingly toward Dame Eliza as he said this, as if he feared her taking offence at Constance's promotion, and sought to placate her.
Where the divinity has ceased to be a willful power and has become instead the God of mercy and loving kindness, it is no longer necessary to placate him by material sacrifice, to win his favor by trivial earthly gifts.
I wished to commemorate my find of the previous day (and perhaps, subconsciously placate the moose's spirit if it had suffered any ill-will toward my action).
With the exception of the income tax, there had been no decisive effort to placate the poorer sections of the population by distinct class legislation.
An effort was made to placate the conservative section of the party by offering the nomination to the Vice Presidency to David B.
