pacificatory
Example Sentences
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"Ruth, wouldn't you like to take a good long drive over to Norridgewock, after the grain is in?" he asked in pacificatory tones.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
Mr. Barrett would have advised more pacificatory talk.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
The shouts of the crowd sounded pacificatory, entreating; they blended into a thick, indistinct babel, in which there was something hopeless and pitiful.
From Mother by Maksim Gorky
Again Rufe laughed: "No—" he said with a quick pacificatory look to young Dave, "not to HIM!"
From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox
"How will you use pacificatory measures, sir?" asked Marie Antoinette, angrily.
From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
