And still she smooths thine angry tides, Tames thy wild heart, and favoring guides The sailor to the port!
To rub over the surface of anything with something which roughens or removes it, or which smooths or cleans it; to rub harshly and noisily along.
She then smooths the walls of this cavity, and all being now ready for putting up the hangings, she betakes herself to the fields, and alights upon some fresh-expanded poppy flower, just displaying its crimson cheeks to the light of day.
She then returns home, and, by means of the scissors and her legs, she cuts and smooths the piece until it lays quite flat upon the bottom of her cell.
Modest he seems, not shy; content to wait Amid the noisy clamor of debate The looked-for moment when a peaceful word Smooths the rough ripples louder tongues have stirred.
The sun in his blue realm above Smooths a bright path when thou art here.
This wind ploughs up broad spaces on the river, tills the furrows with foam, then smooths for a moment the surface, and after a time twists it into deep eddies.
THE tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on the sea; The night-wind smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee.
There haply with her jewelled hands She smooths her silken gown,-- No more the homespun lap wherein I shook the walnuts down.
But as we cut the rugged deepe, I feare The green god stops his fell Chariot of shell, And smooths the maine to ravish her.
Love smooths the rugged--love exalts the mean: Love in each ray inspires the hush'd alarm, Love silvers every shadow into charm.
Our quick-returning folly cancels all; As the tide rushing razes what is writ In yielding sands, andsmooths the letter'd shore.
Age smooths our path to prudence; sweeps aside The snares keen appetite and passion spread To catch stray souls; and woe to that grey head, Whose folly would undo, what age has done!
We are all familiar with its wonderful transforming power; how it erases the scars of sin, smooths out the wrinkles which vice has left in the face, softens the hard features and puts its own divine stamp there.
Oh, marvelous power of love that lightens all heavy burdens and smooths all rough roads!
Though for a while with easy air She smooths the rugged brow of care, And laps the mind in flowery dreams, With Fancy's transitory gleams; Fond of the nothings she bestows, We wake at last to real woes.
Looking intently in the child's face, she laughs with the bounding joy of her soul; then she smooths its hair with her brawny black hands: they contrast strangely with the pure carnatic of the child's cheek.
Harry smooths, and smooths, and smooths his forehead with his hand; until at length his feelings get the better of his resolution; he will wipe the dewy tears from his eyes.
She smooths the cold hands, and chafes them in her own.
He is deeply immersed in thought, smooths her hair, walks to the glass with her in his arms, holds her before it as if to detect his own features in the countenance of the child.
Again she smooths and smooths her left hand over those pallid cheeks, her right still pressing the cold hand of the corpse, as her emotions burst forth in agonising sobs.
The old slave, in return, lays her hand upon Annette's head, and smooths her hair, as if solicitous of her fate.
Touching the Elder on the shoulder, he smiles, and with an insinuating leer, smooths his beard.
The party become seated as Franconia graces the festive board with her presence, which, being an incentive of gallantry, preserves the nicest decorum, smooths the conversation.
In their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Every drop we sprinkle O'er the brow of Care Smooths away a wrinkle.
A little happy smile wreathes her lips as she sees this, and with her white fingers she smooths down the gray sleeve of his coat, as if he were a priceless treasure, once lost, but now restored to her again.
Stooping over it, she presses it lovingly against her breast, and with tender fingers smooths back from the pale forehead the short, wet masses of his dark hair.
The calm that smooths the summer seas May suit the man of sloth and ease: But skies that fret and storms that rave Are the best schools to make us brave.
No--planted also in the mind, She smooths the ocean when she will.
Thy mercy sweetens every soil, Makes every region please; The hoary, frozen hills it warms, And smooths the boisterous seas.
There rests the weary head, There age and sorrow go; And how it smooths the dying bed, O!
Renan smooths over by saying: 'Sincerity with oneself had not much meaning with Orientals; they are little habituated to the delicate distinctions of the critical spirit!
After the materials are thus prepared, he smooths off a level piece of ground, and drives around the outside a line of strong stakes, so that the space within shall describe the exact form of the boat in contemplation.
He then dries them thoroughly in the sun, after which he nicely scrapes and smooths off the outside.
There haply with her jeweled hands She smooths her silken gown,-- No more the homespun lap wherein I shook the walnuts down.
Note, further, in this second of our Lord's words, how He smooths away the grimness of death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smooths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
