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"Sooth" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Sooth, then, shall she return / to Sparta and Mycenae, ay, and see / home, husband, sons and parents, safe and free, / with Ilian wives and Phrygians in her train, / a queen, in pride of triumph? Shall this be, / and Troy have blazed and Priam's self been slain, / and Trojan blood so oft have soaked the Dardan plain?
"Thou speakest sooth." "Why are you talking like that, Tom?"
Many, like Tracy from suburban New Jersey, learned about Amma only recently, and decided to come see her in the hope that Amma might sooth the emotional pain they feel.
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
[…] "O Eginhard, disclose The meaning and the mystery of the rose"; And trembling he made answer: "In good sooth, Its mystery is love, its meaning youth!"
The sooth of birds, by beating of their wings.
The soothest shepherd that e'er pip'd on plains
With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; […]
That shall I sooth (said he) to you declare.
To be ſhort, a wretched and curſed generation they be; hypocrites, pretending friendſhip, but they can not skill of plaine dealing and franke ſpeech. Rich men they claw, ſooth up and flatter: the poore they contemne and deſpiſe.
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Hereupon it is, that these sportulary preachers are fain to sooth up their many masters […]
Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, / To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
Not ballad-ſinger plac’d above the croud, / Sings with a note ſo ſhrilling ſweet and loud, / Nor pariſh clerk who calls the pſalm ſo clear, / Like Bowzybeus ſooths th’ attentive ear.
“Wi’ hat in hand,” sweet lass, quo I, / “Wer't in my power to sooth thy sigh, / My hame-bor’d whistle I wad try, / An’ gie’t a screed, / Atween whar Tiviot murmurs by, / An’ bonny Tweed.”
Elinor paid her every quiet and unobtrusive attention in her power; and she would have tried to sooth and tranquillize her still more, had not Marianne entreated her, with all the eagerness of the most nervous irritability, not to speak to her for the world.
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