pacificatory

Example Sentences

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"Ruth, wouldn't you like to take a good long drive over to Norridgewock, after the grain is in?" he asked in pacificatory tones.

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

Had this pacificatory principle been discovered earlier, "The Letters of Phalaris" would never have fluttered Europe, and Swift would have had no need to write "The Battle of the Books."

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

“I—I—don’t see that it’s any business of yours—of yours, Wade,” stammered the pacificatory Ide, catching the courage of protest from the rather indignant face his daughter turned on the young man.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

This synthetic and pacificatory consciousness is the consciousness of universal and sovereign Being; it is the sense of the presence of God.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

The shouts of the crowd sounded pacificatory, entreating; they blended into a thick, indistinct babel, in which there was something hopeless and pitiful.

From Mother by Gorky, Maksim