| 单词 | assuagement |
| 例句 | “That you have so much passion in your body,” she said insolently, “that you seek assuagement thus. Your husband would give much to know where you have been tonight.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Form, in other words, allows him to draw some assuagement from the very source of the agony itself. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z For Hamlet, Sanders represents an assuagement of the stereotypes of what Black men can to do achieve success. Deion Sanders still winning in Black community after first loss at Colorado 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z It used, as foils, those landscapes of assuagement and the way they morphed over the decades to match the times. ‘WandaVision,’ a sitcom sendup, was a pandemic parable, too 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z But she offered oddly little direct assuagement to the unsettled working class that still craves her assurance. Fury Shakes the Iowa Caucuses, Boosting Ted Cruz While Slowing Hillary Clinton 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Is thy slavery so hard, are thy sorrows beyond assuagement? Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z He was smiling again at this assuagement to his dignity when he suddenly perceived that the struggle had sprinkled his vest; spots appeared also upon his scarf's cerulean blue! "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z There she threw herself upon a couch, not to seek assuagement, but only to give rest to limbs that would scarcely support her. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z I sought refuge under a verandah, but got no assuagement. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z He looked forward to companionship with her in the years to come, and thanked Providence for this assuagement of past loneliness and sorrow. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z Caroline, whose love for him and dependence upon him was an assuagement, yet did not seem to be wholly on his side. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z The night was passed in great anguish, and the morrow's light brought no assuagement of her pain. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 It was as though his nerves were relaxed in one great assuagement. Majesty A Novel He was a tamed and performing wild animal, and just now the only assuagement that tempted him was the instinct to be wild again—to lash out and punish some one for his hurting. The Tempering But up in the town Thursday took its usual "tangle," shouted and sang and drowned its fever without assuagement in the periodic crisis of the fortune hunt. Where the Pavement Ends In she dashed—the grateful chillness Brought assuagement to her pain, Gave her throbbing pulses stillness, Calmed the fever of her brain. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) It seemed to her that there could be no assuagement of his misery—that he were better dead. When the Cock Crows Each asked the cause of her grief, and volunteered an assuagement, as if their little swelling hearts contained the power of the instant amelioration of her sorrow. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III The one assuagement for the pain in her own heart seemed to be the alleviation of the pain in other hearts. A Manifest Destiny It not only responded to the ache she felt within herself, but gave a promise of assuagement. The Dust Flower Morestal, yielding like Philippe to that desire for assuagement and security which comes over us after any great shock, reassured him on the subject of the old man's health. The Frontier She was not of the weak fiber to find assuagement in many tears, nor had she nerves that needed the chemical soothing of flooded eyes. Heart of the Blue Ridge Beulah’s militant spirit sought the assuagement of a fierce expenditure of energy on the work that came to her hand through her new interest in suffrage. Turn About Eleanor Well, I shall soon be as he is, and though there is no consolation in that feeling, it is some assuagement of grief, because sorrow will then be at an end. A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father Yours will be a great, consuming passion that knows no limit, no assuagement. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Chaucer does not endeavour to console him; he knows the only assuagement for such sorrows, and leads him on to speak of the dead. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance They witnessed the fever raging in his blood—the fever that clamored for assuagement from her. Heart of the Blue Ridge Amongst these, nevertheless, as time served, we sat down more voluptuously than the delicate physician could do amidst his stores of aromatics, and where we found an object of love, we found also an assuagement. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages From it she had expected not only realization for him, but assuagement of longing for herself; and the latter hadn't come. The Letter of the Contract Meantime he used every aid for the assuagement of his interior sufferings, just as he conscientiously tried every means for the restoration of his bodily health. Life of Father Hecker Its lines, less than two hundred, deserve to be committed to memory, to rise at times in the mind—the soft assuagement of cares and sorrows. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors He turned to gambling, risking large sums, sometimes imperilling his fortune for the sake of the assuagement such danger brought of the besetting sin. Mike Fletcher A Novel Once more he immersed himself in it as assuagement to the emptiness of long days and the yearning of longer nights. Success A Novel Would the future Virgil regard her as an assuagement, a balm? Sister Teresa I was still crying when she took me to her trunk, and offered the grateful assuagement of candy and a belt, all embroidered with blue and white beads. The Light in the Clearing And, surely, the whole tone of Scripture in its dealing with the great mystery of pain and sorrow, has a loftier scope than even to minister assuagement to grief, and to stay our weeping. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) May good Influences watch over her, bring her some assuagement. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I This channel for the assuagement of his anxieties was closed. Halcyone A cold calculator of chance and probabilities would have reckoned that a half hour of assuagement here would have been a wiser investment of his mortal moments than any virtuous plunge into single-hearted duty. The Fortieth Door It happened to be the note she had to sing when the curtain goes up and Isolde lies on the couch yearning for Tristan, for assuagement of the fever which consumes her. Evelyn Innes To listen was an infinite assuagement, one that was overpoweringly sweet, and for some moments she almost forgot. A Mere Accident These common experiences draw men together in sympathy, unite them in a common purpose of assuagement and help. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy And, on this particular morning, she craved such assuagement of her spirit, for the conscience that, in spite of all her misdeeds, still lived was struggling within her. Within the Law In vain Bordine tried to soothe the young man, but he found that a brother's grief was beyond assuagement. Five Thousand Dollars Reward It might be a voice from heaven,—some temporary assuagement of this storm of doubt that raged in his breast. Charlotte's Inheritance For such sorrow as that of Charles and Mary Lamb, walking together towards the asylum, when the hour had come for her to repair thither, is there not some assuagement here? Miracles of Our Lord Romola went away, found herself in the midst of a plague-stricken people, gave her life to an assuagement of suffering and sorrow. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Suffer, that you may drowse thereafter: grill, that you may have a heat on you worth assuagement. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Even this assuagement of her fears Letty had to plead for; Mary's being so much with her was to him reason, and he made it excuse, for absence; he had begun to dread Mary. Mary Marston They find no Respite and reach no Rest, Though passion fail and desire grow dim, No assuagement comes from the thing possessed For possession feeds the fire. India's Love Lyrics Both were very sad, and although they sighed when the clock struck the hour of farewell, they felt that to pass from one pain to another was in itself an assuagement. A Mummer's Wife But many of us are old enough to recollect that the administration of chloroform in assuagement of the pangs of child-birth was, at its introduction, strenuously resisted upon similar grounds. Science & Education After two hours of argument and examination, I ended with an appeal to him to accept the opportunity to undertake a merciful assuagement of our misery. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft Nothing brings it but sleepless thoughts beyond the assuagement of tears. From a Bench in Our Square Yet it matters but little, this time-limit: for a month is quite long enough for the complete assuagement of the anger of one who, though proverbially capricious, is by no means unkindly. By-Ways of Bombay "Oh, that would be so nice," she murmured with a great sigh of relief and assuagement. The Descent of Man and Other Stories This was not love, as she understood it, but a terrible possession which might find assuagement in inflicting some fearful harm upon what it affected to hold dear. A Life's Morning To have this certainty flashed upon her was, as soon as she had recovered from the shock, a sensible assuagement of her misery. Demos With Lilian, to understand a sorrow was to ask herself what she could do for its assuagement. Denzil Quarrier What had at the first suggestion been a terror now grew upon her as an assuagement of pain. Thyrza It is the hope that the aching of the sinful heart may find some assuagement through the worship of these gilded, gaudy images. Brazilian Sketches It had been expelled from memory by the all-possessing woe of those last hours; it returned like a soothing warmth, an assuagement of pain. A Life's Morning This sense of Beauty is something in me which demands not simply gratification but the best and keenest of a sense or continuance of sense impressions, and which refuses coarse quantitative assuagements. First and Last Things For the assuagement whereof, I have good hope that, if you will unite with me, I shall find means most sweet and delightsome; to wit, on this wise. The Decameron, Volume I Again a look of complacency, and blessed assuagement, visited the little man. The Island Pharisees To some women, the knowledge that a thing must be brings assuagement of the nerves. Beyond So his anger went on smouldering all night long, and all through his sleep, without a touch of cool assuagement, and in the morning he rose with his temper very feverish. Sir Gibbie Marechal de Belleisle has still a long journey ahead, and infinitely harder problems than these,—assuagement of the King of Prussia, for example. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 Friedrich tried, privately through Leopold Junior, some slight touches of assuagement; but without effect; and left the Senior to Time, and to his own methods of cooling again. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 On the other hand, her Sisters are permitted to visit her, and perceptible assuagements come. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 Violently will my breast then heave; violently will it blow its storm over the mountains: thus cometh its assuagement. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none The assuagement is still incomplete when our Judiths arrive. The French Revolution A declining sun; the need of victuals, and of telling news, will bring assuagement, dispersion: all earthly things must end. The French Revolution |
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