assuage

Do, messieurs, do all that your hearts counsel you to assuage the grief of Madame Fouquet.

He was gloomy because he passionately longed for some vodka, and the only thing that could assuage that longing was tea and he had not yet been offered any.

"Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger.

The mother's consternation was excessive; but it could not surpass the alarm of the Miss Steeles, and every thing was done by all three, in so critical an emergency, which affection could suggest as likely to assuage the agonies of the little sufferer.

The other night, while I was waiting on him, and just as I had brought him a draught to assuage his burning thirst, he observed, with a return of his former sarcastic bitterness, 'Yes, you're mighty attentive now!

As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.

"-- yet are they clearly wholesome, the more espe- cially when one doth assuage the asperities of their nature by admixture of the tranquilizing juice of the wayward cabbage --"

I cannot deny that I grieved for his grief, whatever that was, and would have given much to assuage it.

``Hold, father,'' said the Jew, ``mitigate and assuage your choler.

Nevertheless, I had to assuage the grief of an old woman- servant, who staggered back at the tidings of her young master's death, and sank half-dead into a chair when she saw the blood- stained key.

He had called upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi to transparently tell the country about the situation and assuage people.

Treasuries are a little cheaper, along with core European sovereigns as equities have found a moderate bid as various factors have helped assuage the worst of the trade war fears, at least for today.