Then I'll wait for him," announced Blake, placated by the humbler note in the voice of the man in the service-coat.
Well, let's have it now," placated the patient-eyed Blake.
The idea that the supreme head of the "American system of religion" can be placated with a little meat and "ordinary eatables" is simply preposterous.
Shall we select the God of the Catholics--he who has established an infallible church presided over by an infallible pope, and who is delighted with certain ceremonies and placated by prayers uttered in exceedingly common Latin?
They went to church andplacated their god, and swore they believed certain things the acts of their lives repudiated.
While in ancient times the dead were everywhere placated by gifts and were sometimes worshiped, the consultation of them for guidance seems to have been relatively infrequent.
Traces of an early cult of the physical wind may be found, perhaps, in certain customs that survive in modern communities; as, for example, in the offering of food to the wind that it may be placated and do no harm.
Bad magic may be overcome by good magic, and a deity, hostile and maleficent under certain circumstances, may be placated by offerings.
Later the view that the god was pleased and placated by the nourishment offered him assumed more definite form;[1886] but it is doubtful whether on such occasions man was regarded as the guest of the deity.
Thus the virtue of the communal feast was twofold: it placated the supernatural Power, and it procured for the worshiper a satisfactory meal and probably also an infusion of superhuman power.
He was finally placatedby a promise that men who had been superiors in France proper, should be chosen to fill similar positions in the Walloon district.
They girded themselves for battle on this issue, and were not at all placated by Northern disclaimers of "abolitionism," and reiterated disavowals of any right or purpose to intermeddle with slavery as the creature of State law.
If Tira was to fight this desperate battle all her mortal life, he wasn't to be placated by the rewarding certainty of a heavenly refuge at the end.
He should have kissed it, even gone on his knees to do it, and placated her with a laughing extravagance.
It's goin' to be washed anyways," she placated the housewifely instinct within her, and she ran in for the baby and set him on the blanket.
Gronski placated them with the statement that this did not lessen the civilizing importance of music, that it, with the dance, was one of the first factors which promoted among the scattered tribes of men a certain organization.
Therefore Plank must have beenplacated by Leila; how, Mortimer was satisfied not to know.
No doubt the money she raised to placate Plank--if she had placated him in that fashion--was a strain on her resources, whatever those resources were.
Thomas Johnson exhibited some show of temper, but was placated by the good sense of his rival, who proposed that they should strike for two Territories instead of one.
And not least among his assets was the constant companionship of Mrs. Douglas, whose tact, grace, and beauty placatedfeelings which had been ruffled by the rude vigor of "the Little Giant.
A judicious condescension on the young man's part even then might have placated him, but instead an evil spirit called to Hayward's memory his first meeting with Porter, the insufferable affront, and his own oath to even the score.
This last speech in a measure placated Bobby's offended notions of dignity, and he and Helen went off toward the stables, where Hayward brought the horses out and put the saddles on while Bobby looked them over.
There was no purely Irish party to attack the abuses of the administration in Dublin; the leading men were placated with office, or else had to join in the scramble for emoluments, for fear that they should be left out in the cold.
But he managed, after Poindexter had left, to make her conscious that Mrs. Tucker might be a power to be placated and feared.
Our two guards, bribed for the purpose and placated with a promise that we would return to them in an hour's time, loafed outside the doorway.
Having placated his own particular guard with a bribe, Wilkowsky often crossed the Golden Horn alone.
Miss Campbell so far forgot her objections as to burst out laughing, and she was still further placated by finding at one end of the porch a good-sized locker room, and adjoining that a bathroom.
First Alberdina must be roundly scolded for her carelessness about the clothes and then placated with a ten dollar bill to compensate her for her loss.
For the gods to be worshipped in fear and trembling are the gods that revel in, and can only be placated by, destruction.
I added that the non-Brahmins should be placated without any ado or bargaining.
Then I 'll wait for him," announced Blake, placatedby the humbler note in the voice of the man in the service-coat.
Adoration in the animistic stage is caused either by a sense of fear, by the indefinable feeling for the sacred, or because something is hoped for from the deity placated or worshipped.
She is also known as Kali, and, like her husband, is placated by dreadful rites.
The old harshnesses of the Federal government were canceled by the new generosity of a placated nation.
That black remnant of lowest savagery dates back to the time when a pursuing beast was placated by the surrender of something, or somebody; and a conqueror bought off by tribute.
The medicine man made play with this race habit, and gross idols were soothed and placated by sacrifices--on which the medicine man lived.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "placated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
