10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLACABLY»
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1
Considerations on Criminal Law
... and they are often put to so dreadful a decision, the deterring example, without
doubt, strikes as strong as if the whole of them were im- | placably placably
sacrificed : and, with regard to the unhappy wretches, 256 CONSIDERATIONS**
2
A Complete English-Latin and Latin-English Dictionary
PlScÂbIlItkr. adv. Calmly, mildly, placably; Cell. PlXcXmkn. luis. п. (placo) A
means qf pacifying or appeasing; Liv. PlAcXmentcm, 1. n. (placo) I. q. Placemen ;
Tac. PlX(ätb. adr. Mildly, gently, placably; ferre, Cic: plaçât ins ferre, Id. PlScätIo,
önis.
Joseph Esmond Riddle, 1870
3
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
... the brightness and the numerous company, now frowned and hid her face, now
lifted up her head again and looked round placably, until a touch or a coaxing
word brought back the frown, and made her bury her face with new determination
.
George Eliot, Terence Cave, 1996
"As to that," he said placably, "I can assure you that the gold-digging has been
purely an investment on my part." "But an investment which you should not have
made," insisted the president judicially. "If it had not tempted you to the breach of
...
They were very placably accepted, .and a servant having been summoned to
show the new rector to a sitting-room, or to his chamber — or, if it suited his
convenience, to take a brief survey of the mansion to which he came, with a
master's right ...
... to a catholic the most sacred ; the king pardoned and loved the rebel who had
defeated his armies, endangered his power, and subjected his person to the
ignominious flight of Meauxt; and the man thus placably indulgent was Charles IX
.
Sir James Mackintosh, William Wallace, Robert Bell, 1832
7
Recollections of a Happy Life: Being the Autobiography of ...
Then I set to work to make a new stirrup with a bit of twisted bamboo rope he had
in his hand, after which I remounted, and we went on placably and even
sluggishly when the steep hills came, the only drawback being that the side-
saddle had ...
Marianne North, Susan Morgan, 1993
8
Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
They were very placably accepted, and a servant having been summoned to
show the new rector to a sitting-room, or to his chamber — or, if it suited his
convenience, to take a brief survey of the mansion to which he came, with a
master's, right ...
9
Doubled Plots: Romance and History
Their situation frequently leaves them jockeying for authority over the developing
narrative: Miss Thane interposed placably. "Don't argue with him, Eustacie. It's my
belief he's in a high fever." [Ludovic] grinned at her. "I am," he agreed. "But my ...
Susan Strehle, Mary Paniccia Carden, 2009
10
The Politics of Hope: And, The Bitter Heritage : American ...
placably pro-American, anticommunist foes of the insurgent Viet Cong and Ho
Chi Minh's government in North Vietnam, yet were also revolted by Diem. In July
1961, one of the party's founders and its current president, Nguyen Thai Binh, ...
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, 2008
