The quiet and dimness soothed him, but increased the strange unreal feeling, of which he had been conscious since the morning.
By degrees the pleasant warmth, the extreme beauty of the plants and flowers amidst which he found himself, the solitariness, too, soothed and subdued his irritation.
Dora soothed her, almost dreading the time when memory should awaken in full force.
For the first time, Lord Earle's wife laid her head upon that noble woman's shoulder and wept away her sorrow, while Valentine soothed her with loving words.
Lady Dora's hand soothed and calmed her, her gentle motherly ways brought comfort and rest; but many long days passed before Lillian knew those around her, or woke from her troubled, feverish dream.
Ronald soothed and comforted his wife, and did not return to his studio that day, but sat talking to her, telling her how noble and good Valentine Charteris was.
His friend promised to go and do as Swann wished as soon as he had deposited him at the door of the Saint-Euverte house, where he arrived soothed by the thought that M.
I released the stranger from his disagreeable position, and patted and soothed Bearsgrease to express my approbation and satisfaction at his good behavior; but he continued to give an occasional growl and scowl at the other dog.
She soothed him, helped him to tell his story, was patient and loving with him, while all the time almost insupportably anxious to come to the end of it, and know the best or the worst.
She knew, I suppose, that I could take all that for granted, and should be soothed by being made to feel that I hadn't got to give up everything to him.
Caroline soothed her, but felt her heart growing heavy again.
Grafton was soothed in his spirit by this whole-hearted homage paid to his girl.
She knew that she read mockery into greetings but she could not control her suspicion, could not rise from her psychic collapse.
She told herself that she was not responsive to men .
She had no ecstatic indulgence in the sense of guilt which is, to the women of Main Street, the surest escape from blank tediousness.
Till the end she labored to satisfy the inquisition.
No, I am not going to be naughty, and I do trust you--" Edgar soothed her with his touch and his voice.
She had all the impatience to herself, however, for Miss Agnace was as gentle and helpful as ever, and bathed her hot hands and head, and soothed her till she lost the sense of her troubles in sleep.
It grew and grew and surrounded me with a penetrating cloud of rich perfume, perfume and old, sweet memories that cut and soothed at once.
I faltered, soothed in spite of myself by his kindly smile.
Later, she lay again in the balcony chair, not so soothed by her little pile of books as she had looked to be.
I was so disappointed and hurt and heartsick, and he kissed me and soothed me.
A worn woman with unkempt hair, her waist flung open at the neck, sat in a spot of shade, and soothed a baby already grown too weak to be fretful.
Oft was he forced his reasons to repeat, Ere he could kneel in quiet at his seat; But custom soothed him.
The humbler clients of her friend would stare, The knowing smile--but neither caused her care; She brought her spirits to her humble state, And soothed with idle dreams her frowning fate.
Ye idler things, that soothed my hours of care, Where would ye wander, triflers, tell me where?
His late confession, although it had comforted and soothed him, was yet a mystery to himself, and he thought of it with a kind of awkward surprise and something like resentment.
Sometimes a baby would send up a little wail of fatigue; but generally the slumberous air soothed and quieted them into sleep.
She loves to wander on the untrodden lawn, Or the green bosom of reclining hill, Soothed by the careless warbler of the dawn, Or the lone plaint of ever-murmuring rill.
She might have been taken for an image of passionate strength beaten and worn with conflict; and he for an image of the self-renouncing faith which has soothed that conflict into rest.
Was that voluptuous when she held him to a brother's part, and soothed his passions into slumber with quiet talk of sweet and sober things?
He had been so sore-hearted of late and so removed from all feminine companionship, that this unexpected, unlooked-for intercourse with a woman of culture and of such undoubted airs of refinement soothed like a poultice.
All at once, in this serenity, great Nature spoke to me; and soothed me to lay down my weary head upon the grass, and weep as I had not wept yet, since Dora died!
She got calmer by degrees, and then we soothed her; now talking encouragingly, and now jesting a little with her, until she began to raise her head and speak to us.
The good spirits sent by Bramah soothed the child now sleeping, and fanned its cheek with their breath, like the smoke of the welcome incense to the divine one.
So gently Gabrielle soothed her, forgetting her own grief and weariness in Bertha’s more bitter suffering and remorse.
Noel Vanstone, soothed by Captain Wragge's ready recognition of his authority.
For hours they sat together, the younger man at the piano and the older listening, being soothed and softened by the magic touch upon the keys.
Once more, she saw him as some animal that might be soothed with petting, but, thwarted, would turn fierce and do as he would with her.
The carpet was harsh to her feet, but, by the window, the bare boards soothed them.
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