pacificatory
Example Sentences
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"I—I didn' say I had any objection to fightin'-men, not when they're quiet," Mrs Bosenna made haste to observe in a pacificatory tone.
From Hocken and Hunken by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
It emits pacificatory Proclamations, not a few; with more or with less result.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
"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
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
Clear, frank, open to reasonable representation, correct to his promise; in fact, industriously conciliatory and pacificatory: such is Friedrich to all Silesian men.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
