soothed

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of Soothe

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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. Aeschylus

Childhood has no forebodings but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. George Eliot

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness. Virginia Woolf

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. Isaac Asimov

...surely that sneered-at suburban life was more stable than this shadow life...in a country where no involvement was possible...better than the sordid dalliance that soothed me after work? Anthony Burgess