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Example sentences for "mollifying"

Lexicographically close words:
molli; mollia; mollifie; mollified; mollify; mollis; mollissima; mollusc; mollusca; molluscan
  1. Miss Jerusha's voice has lost none of its shrillness and sharpness under the mollifying influence of Old Father Time.

  2. The hearing of John's letter read, so far from mollifying Theodora, renewed the other grievance.

  3. Mehevi was remarkable fond of mollifying his entire cuticle with this ointment.

  4. The skin of this young creature, from continual ablutions and the use of mollifying ointments, was inconceivably smooth and soft.

  5. He changed his tone to a wheedling, mollifying one.

  6. Mehevi was remarkably fond of mollifying his entire cuticle with this ointment.

  7. By mollifying or dissolving it, and seldom by bringing it to Suppuration.

  8. Set down, boy, and be respectable," said Peter in a mollifying tone.

  9. That's all right, stranger," replied the stranger, with mollifying effectiveness.

  10. Until then his mother's scoldings had been outbursts of nervousness rather than of ill feeling and soon melted into a mollifying smile.

  11. Every now and then came his grandmother's and his mother's voices in mollifying tones, in attempts, evidently, to make him adopt a milder attitude.

  12. This mollifying dream and the easy sleep which followed it had completely restored her health and spirits.

  13. And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat, whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying vertue.

  14. As an ointment, it was celebrated for mollifying heat, and hence it became invaluable as a protection to those who had to undergo the ordeal of holding red-hot iron in their hands.

  15. But his interruption and his irritating stare had accomplished no mollifying purpose down in the court.

  16. The herrin' was cut open, and without having been submitted to any mollifying process whatever, not one assuaging touch of its native element, was laid flat in the spider, and fried.

  17. I was compelled to infer from the tone of Grandpa Keeler's answer that his temper had not undergone a mollifying process during my absence.

  18. For they were not content to sit still and applaud and clap, but many at last leaped from their seats, danced lasciviously, and made such gentle steps as became such effeminate and mollifying tunes.

  19. But neither the earth nor water can any more be said to be of itself; but the air, drawing together and thickening the matter, has made the earth, and again dissolving and mollifying it, has produced the water.

  20. There is a Hindoo proverb that you cannot get the crook out of a dog's tail by mollifying appliances.

  21. We hinted, in a mollifying way, that he had escaped over a fence ten feet high, but that blood would tell.

  22. It was a pretty conceit, and mollifying withal, that a feminine florist connected with pansies: "When you go past them they will turn their heads toward you, greeting you so lovingly.

  23. If the gall be sluggish, and does not stir the bowels, give warm injections of a decoction of the four mollifying herbs, with honey of roses and aloes.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mollifying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    calming; conciliatory; cushioning; demulcent; dreamy; drowsy; easing; emollient; loosening; lulling; mild; mollifying; pacific; pacifying; padding; propitiatory; relaxation; relaxing; restful; rocking; softening; soothing; subduing; tranquilizing