But for all this reassurance the old lady was clearly uneasy.
It, or the reassurance of the doctor's visit, had a sedative effect; and old Maisie seemed to sleep, to the great satisfaction of her nurses.
She harkened in vain for some hopeful note of uncongeniality, some reassurance for her love or at least her vanity, some certainty that her husband, her first possessor, had given her some emotion that he could never give another.
She felt in his very fingers so muchreassurance that she was encouraged to unburden herself altogether of her hoard of secrets.
When she came downstairs he was already in the oak-room with Effie and Madame de Chantelle, and the sense of reassurance which his presence gave her was merged in the relief of not being able to speak of what was between them.
In a few minutes he would be in her presence and would read his reassurance in her eyes.
He scarcely knew why it seemed to him so important that this point should be settled; certainly his sense of reassurance was less due to regard for Miss Viner than to the persistent vision of grave offended eyes.
Olive puzzled her frequently, and shocked her not seldom, but she felt instinctively that hers were the aberrations of a noble nature, while the cynicisms of Herbert jarred upon her without such reassurance of sweet bells jangled.
He caught only the celestial reassurance of her reply.
He had at the time, expressed his sorrow and regret in shamefaced tones, but Blachland had met him with the equable reassurance that it didn't matter.
And with a sharp attempt at self-control and reassurance he altered his voice.
For a space he groped about him without result, then his fingers touched the cold surface of a shuttered shop-front, and a thrill of reassurance passed through him.
She searched his face, as if to discern the feeling with which he regarded her, and her timid smile of reassurance did not lack its pathos.
But at present all was quiet, and with comfortable reassurance the father went to rest.
My sister smiled sympathy and reassurance across the table at me, and Chitty hovered about me with the hock.
There was both reassurance and pathos in its unconscious youth.
I was about to rise and call down a word of reassurance to him, when a current of spiced air passed by me.
Maria glanced at him where he sat at a distant table with some boys, and he gave an almost imperceptible nod of reassurance at her.
Sometimes Maria met her going to and fro from a place of employment, and at such times there was fear in Maria's face and a pathetic admiration and reassurance in the other girl's.
This argument had such a convincing ring that it gave Mrs. Peniston sufficient reassurance to pick up her work, while she waited for Grace Stepney to rally her scattered forces.
Once or twice he murmured something to Tiger at the anaesthesia controls, and occasionally he nodded reassurance to the Moruan surgeon.
The small, monkey-like creature was painfully shy; he required constant reassurance that the doctors did not mind being called, that they wanted to help, and that a contract was not necessary in an emergency.
This reassurance of her finer nature made all else seem trivial for the time being.
But, somehow, as she looked into Amaldi's eyes and listened to his quiet voice, a feeling of reassurance stole over her.
A word of welcome home, of reassurance that it was home, might have made me dutiful to my new father, and made me respect instead of hate him; but the word was not spoken, and the time for it was gone.
To be so near, to have that hideous war of wind and water raging over the world, and not to come somehow--to swim or row or ride to her, to bring her delicious companionship and reassurance out of the storm!
Warren was her husband and the father of her two splendid boys; there was tremendous reassurance in the thought.
Rachael began a low-voiced reassuranceto which the younger woman listened reluctantly, scowling over her omelette, and interposing an occasional protest.
No need to ask of the storm with this celestial reassurance flooding the room.
Clara, afraid in this first moment to face his disappointment, felt in another the most delicious reassurance and comfort she had known in months.
The purplish cabbage roses seemed to be regarding her with clucking approval and reassurance that a group of matrons might give to a young wife.
There was folly, there was innocence in Roger's failure to notice that Richard was speaking not in reassurance but in grimness, as one might speak who sees a doom, fire or flood travelling down on to the place where he stood.
Such a work, would, I believe, have a large sale, and be read with satisfaction and reassurance by many lovers of Wagner's music.
Yet another theme connected with Wotan is the Wanderer music which breaks with such a majestic reassurance on the nightmare terror of Mimmy when Wotan appears at the mouth of his cave in the scene of the three riddles.
I was not so convinced but that your expression of pleasure is a reassurance to me as well as a gratification.
