soothingness
Example Sentences
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Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory: Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending?
From Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
He who has never stood pensive by a friend's side in such an hour of poetic dreaming can hardly understand its inexpressible soothingness.
From The Purse by Honoré de Balzac
In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory: Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending?
From The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete by George Meredith
In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
