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  • He devised a strategy that he believed would not only allay suspicions but also reduce the costs of construction.†   (source)
  • In order to allay any fears his clients might have about his political leanings, he had altered his name slightly.†   (source)
  • But I was only attempting to allay suspicion, both theirs and his; and underneath my show of happiness I was very downheartened.†   (source)
  • The measure of Count Fenring's friendship may be seen first in a positive thing: he allayed the Landsraad's suspicions after the Arrakis Affair.†   (source)
  • However, the strange events of this interminable day helped to allay my cold fear that Moody might attempt to extend this visit beyond the date of our return reservation, two weeks hence.†   (source)
  • I knew that when Oliver and the National Executive read my memo, their fears that I had gone off the road would be allayed.†   (source)
  • I hadn't witnessed anything at Danbury to allay my fear of childbirth, but for the first time I had some tiny insight on the mother-child relationship.†   (source)
  • Alex, it is too much to expect that your mutual suspicions will be allayed by something so small as this.†   (source)
  • When FBI agents stole off in the night with some mobster's household trash, they substituted fake garbage, to allay suspicion—aromatic food scraps, anchovy tins, used tampons prepared by the lab division.†   (source)
  • He said and did things then that filled me with a fear that no words of Saruman could allay.†   (source)
  • For the next few moments, she did everything she could possibly do to allay the fears of the families of the missing women.†   (source)
  • Amanda searched his face, expecting the worst, but her fears were allayed almost immediately by his air of exhausted satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Her lovely face, lilting voice and perfect smile did nothing to allay the former judge's fears.†   (source)
  • He started a diary in what appeared to be a frustrated attempt to allay and resolve his own doubts.†   (source)
  • "Neither the morals of Epictetus or the stoic philosophy of the ancients could avail to allay the tumult of grief excited by such a succession of distress," she wrote to John Quincy.†   (source)
  • Their belief is that by grievous self-punishment they can allay God's wrath.†   (source)
  • Amagiri's wake is sweeping the flames away from the wreckage of 109, allaying Kennedy's fears that the gasoline fires will ignite any remaining ammunition or fuel tanks.†   (source)
  • "The plebe system builds men," I whispered back, hoping that the sarcasm would help allay my trembling.†   (source)
  • He also released the full text to the press so that misconceptions and inaccuracies produced by the bootleg copy could be allayed.†   (source)
  • …in Charlotte, North Carolina, came to naught not only because of her sullen taunts, as I pumped away athwart her aging loins, that I was "slower'n a broke-kneed turtle," nor only because I was desensitized by the oceans of beer I had drunk to allay my initial anxiety, but additionally, I confess, because during the befuddled preliminaries a combination of delaying tactics and fear of disease had caused me somehow to don two condoms—a fact which I discovered to my dismay when she…†   (source)
  • But when he spoke again his voice partly allayed her fears.†   (source)
  • In contrast, Lamar believed that "the only course I, in common with other Southern representatives have to follow, is to do what we can to allay excitement between the sections and to bring about peace and reconciliation."†   (source)
  • Another put in a rider that the thirst then generated was such that even the time which had elapsed had not completely allayed it.   (source)
    allayed = satisfied (removed)
  • These were, I shortly found, connected almost solely with the dusty nature of the job, and the consequent thirst engendered in the operators. On my affording an opportunity, through the medium of the currency of the realm, of the allaying, at a later period, this beneficial evil, one of the men remarked, "That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in."   (source)
    allaying = reduced the intensity of (in this case, of thirst)
  • But any doubt that the Briarcrest Christian School served up the sort of education Betty Boo had in mind was allayed by the sight of the passage from the Book of Matthew inscribed on the outside of the main building: With men this is impossible; with God all things are possible.†   (source)
  • For the first time, I was facing the specter and power and the incorporeal evil of The Ten with all my questions answered and all my fears allayed.†   (source)
  • Still, knowing that Brom had trusted the Varden enough to serve them helped to allay his fears.†   (source)
  • Allay edi, Kalyani?†   (source)
  • That did not allay Eragon's fears.†   (source)
  • Allay.†   (source)
  • Somehow we must needs find a way to allay their concerns and the concerns of those like them, for even if I am king, I will have to give them a fair hearing if I am to retain the support of the clans.†   (source)
  • The Staples she knew would try to allay the fears of a terrified friend if she had concrete facts to offer in comfort, even a single piece of vital information, if the fabric of the whole were too complex.†   (source)
  • I was impressed with this response, but said that theidea of "group rights" did more to increase black fears than allay white ones.†   (source)
  • She could sense my hurt, the inconceivable magnitude of my bruised vanity, and my need to allay the monstrously insistent fiats and injunctions of a male ego.†   (source)
  • —When the Prince of Eternity kissed the Princess of the World, her resistance was allayed.†   (source)
  • But made into a gruel it allayed the children's craving for a time and put something into their distended, empty bellies.†   (source)
  • That statement from the cattleman allayed Madeline's pangs of conscience.†   (source)
  • Whether we succeed or fail, the excitement which you now perceive in me will be equally allayed.†   (source)
  • The truth lies atween you: you're both right and both wrong, as I allays say.†   (source)
  • He's allays put up his hoss here, sir, iver since before I hed the Donnithorne Arms.†   (source)
  • It allays a feverish thirst that had parched me for many days.†   (source)
  • The tumult of Elizabeth's mind was allayed by this conversation.†   (source)
  • But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession of him.†   (source)
  • I allays have thought that Mas'r would be good to everybody."†   (source)
  • That's what I do wi' the pups as the lads are allays a-rearing.†   (source)
  • "Aye, thee't allays ready enough at prayin', but I donna see as thee gets much wi' thy prayin'.†   (source)
  • You like a spot too, Bessy; we allays hung together i' that."†   (source)
  • "I've been allays used to horses," said Tom.†   (source)
  • Thee wart allays for halving iverything wi' him.†   (source)
  • "It's no more than what I've allays said," followed Mrs. Glegg.†   (source)
  • Thee't allays stay till the last child's born.†   (source)
  • But she spoke like a sister, too; having she allays was, and hard to please,—oh dear!†   (source)
  • I wonder Maggie didn't, though, for she was allays so fond of her aunt Moss."†   (source)
  • "Eh, thee't allays stick up for thy brother.†   (source)
  • An' if a bit o' luck turns up, I'm allays thinkin' if I can let Mr. Tom have a pull at it.†   (source)
  • An' I feel i' fault myself, for she was my niece, and I was allays hot for her marr'ing ye.†   (source)
  • But thee't allays so hard upo' thy feyther, Adam.†   (source)
  • But Jane and me were allays contrairy; she would have striped things, and I like spots.†   (source)
  • "Poor thing!" he said to himself, "that's allays likely.†   (source)
  • "I allays meant to be easy about that money, because o' your aunt.†   (source)
  • "Ye'll make it out as trouble's a good thing, like HE allays does.†   (source)
  • "No, nor sudden deaths," said aunt Pullet; "allays the doctor called in.†   (source)
  • And her aunt allays says how clever she is at the work.†   (source)
  • "Haven't you allays told me as there was no getting more nor five per cent?"†   (source)
  • Thee't like thy dog Gyp—thee bark'st at me sometimes, but thee allays lick'st my hand after."†   (source)
  • "Ah," said Mrs. Poyser, "an' it's poor work allays settin' the dead above the livin'.†   (source)
  • "The child's allays i' mischief if your back's turned a minute.†   (source)
  • "She allays takes against Hetty when she isn't well.†   (source)
  • What's he allays goin' to the Poysers' for, if he didna want t' see her?†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Mrs. Poyser," said Adam; "a drink o' whey's allays a treat to me.†   (source)
  • This furious music allayed his dread and, leaning against the windowledge, he let his eyelids close again.†   (source)
  • The other suspicion was allayed.†   (source)
  • Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly.†   (source)
  • She noted—with that acute sense of hers—that she had succeeded in completely allaying Sir Andrew's fears.†   (source)
  • And for the moment her thoughts were allayed and modified by the beauty of his head and arms and the tousled hair that now fell over his eyes.†   (source)
  • Henry, after allaying her agitation, had taken her over his property, and had explained to her the use and dimensions of the various rooms.†   (source)
  • His uncertainty allayed, he now continued: "In the first place, the thing you want done is something my conscience would not permit me to advise.†   (source)
  • The sad quiet grey-blue glow of the dying day came through the window and the open door, covering over and allaying quietly a sudden instinct of remorse in Stephen's heart.†   (source)
  • And since Dillard gave no evidence of deserting Zella, it followed, of course, that Clyde was to see her home, a pleasure that now had been allayed by a vague suggestion of disappointment or failure on the part of both.†   (source)
  • Even if he had been certain that all the progressives were fools like him, it would not have allayed his uneasiness.†   (source)
  • I exclaimed: and indeed there was something in the hasty and unexplanatory reply which, instead of allaying, piqued my curiosity more than ever.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Ludlow sacrificed, as I say, to Paris, yet had doubts and wonderments not allayed at that altar; and after her husband had joined her found further chagrin in his failure to throw himself into these speculations.†   (source)
  • His fear lest Miss Brooke should have run away to join the Moravian Brethren, or some preposterous sect unknown to good society, was a little allayed by the knowledge that Mrs. Cadwallader always made the worst of things.†   (source)
  • The frock was of light silk, and clung to her with wet, and her feet were protected merely by thin slippers; add to this a deep cut under one ear, which only the cold prevented from bleeding profusely, a white face scratched and bruised, and a frame hardly able to support itself through fatigue; and you may fancy my first fright was not much allayed when I had had leisure to examine her.†   (source)
  • Evening meditation and morning work somewhat allayed her fears, and having decided that she wouldn't be vain enough to think people were going to propose when she had given them every reason to know what her answer would be, she set forth at the appointed time, hoping Teddy wouldn't do anything to make her hurt his poor feelings.†   (source)
  • And when he was come close by, his alarm was not allayed by the discovery of a crowd investing the door of the establishment, while the enclosure adjoining, broad as it was, seemed already full.†   (source)
  • That's the fault I have to find wi' you, Bessy; if you see a stick i' the road, you're allays thinkin' you can't step over it.†   (source)
  • This return of trust in God's providence allayed the turbulence of my fears, and I was enabled to concentrate upon my situation all the force of my intelligence.†   (source)
  • They were of sobering tendency; they allayed agitation; they composed, and consequently must make her happier.†   (source)
  • He was already in a state of keen sensitiveness and hardly allayed agitation on the subject of ties in the past, and his presentiments were not agreeable.†   (source)
  • …up that uncontaminated aroma,—literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.†   (source)
  • Thus a democratic nation, by augmenting its army, only allays for a time the ambition of the military profession, which soon becomes even more formidable, because the number of those who feel it is increased.†   (source)
  • Her fears were, however, speedily allayed, for I assured her that the boat I intended to construct should be no flimsy cockleshell, but as safe and stout a craft as ever floated upon the sea.†   (source)
  • Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron chimney-pots.†   (source)
  • The pain had been allayed for Dorothea, but it had left in her an awakened conjecture as to what Lydgate's marriage might be to him, a susceptibility to the slightest hint about Mrs. Lydgate.†   (source)
  • And one while he was allays after Miss Nancy, and then it all went off again, like a smell o' hot porridge, as I may say.†   (source)
  • "Mas'r allays been good to me.†   (source)
  • When Lydgate had allayed Mrs. Bulstrode's anxiety by telling her that her husband had been seized with faintness at the meeting, but that he trusted soon to see him better and would call again the next day, unless she-sent for him earlier, he went directly home, got on his horse, and rode three miles out of the town for the sake of being out of reach.†   (source)
  • "Aye, I held in tight till I was by mysen wi' Mr. Drumlow, and then I out wi' everything, but respectful, as I allays did.†   (source)
  • Ye said the Lord took sides against us, because he lets us be 'bused and knocked round; but ye see what come on his own Son,—the blessed Lord of Glory,—wan't he allays poor? and have we, any on us, yet come so low as he come?†   (source)
  • For there was allays a talk as nobody could get rich on the Warrens: though he holds it cheap, for it's what they call Charity Land."†   (source)
  • He's my youngest, and we spoil him sadly, for either me or the father must allays hev him in our sight—that we must."†   (source)
  • "That's what you're allays at; if I throw a stone and hit, you think there's summat better than hitting, and you try to throw a stone beyond.†   (source)
  • My husband says I'm allays like as if I was putting the haft for the handle—that's what he says—for he's very sharp, God help him.†   (source)
  • "Aye, aye," said Mr. Macey, who felt very well satisfied with this attack on youthful presumption; "you're right there, Tookey: there's allays two 'pinions; there's the 'pinion a man has of himsen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on him.†   (source)
  • I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be; you were younger a deal than what you are now; but you were allays a staring, white-faced creatur, partly like a bald-faced calf, as I may say.†   (source)
  • You was allays a good sister to me.†   (source)
  • "Well, whativer the letters are, they've a good meaning; and it's a stamp as has been in our house, Ben says, ever since he was a little un, and his mother used to put it on the cakes, and I've allays put it on too; for if there's any good, we've need of it i' this world."†   (source)
  • …his hearer's imagination—"why, I was all of a tremble: it was as if I'd been a coat pulled by the two tails, like; for I couldn't stop the parson, I couldn't take upon me to do that; and yet I said to myself, I says, "Suppose they shouldn't be fast married, 'cause the words are contrairy?" and my head went working like a mill, for I was allays uncommon for turning things over and seeing all round 'em; and I says to myself, "Is't the meanin' or the words as makes folks fast i' wedlock?"†   (source)
  • But I've allays heard as it's the husband's place to stand by the wife, instead o' rejoicing and triumphing when folks insult her."†   (source)
  • But what come to me as clear as the daylight, it was when I was troubling over poor Bessy Fawkes, and it allays comes into my head when I'm sorry for folks, and feel as I can't do a power to help 'em, not if I was to get up i' the middle o' the night—it comes into my head as Them above has got a deal tenderer heart nor what I've got—for I can't be anyways better nor Them as made me; and if anything looks hard to me, it's because there's things I don't know on; and for the matter o'…†   (source)
  • I'll allays be a good brother to you."†   (source)
  • And if I do, Tom," concluded Mrs. Glegg, turning impressively to her nephew, "I hope you'll allays bear it in mind and be grateful for such an aunt.†   (source)
  • I know him or his shadder as far off as I can see 'em; I'm allays lighting on him o' that side the river."†   (source)
  • It's your bad luck, and I'm sorry for you, Bessy; for you was allays my favorite sister, and we allays liked the same patterns."†   (source)
  • And she's allays seemed clear about that—as her work was to minister t' others, and make no home for herself i' this world."†   (source)
  • Lors, I talk to him by th' hour together, when I'm walking i' lone places, and if I'n done a bit o' mischief, I allays tell him.†   (source)
  • Joy and peace are not resignation; resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed, that you don't expect to be allayed.†   (source)
  • For thee'dst allays lie still wi' thy eyes open, an' Adam ne'er 'ud lie still a minute when he wakened.†   (source)
  • "Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's.†   (source)
  • You've a memory for my pills and draughts, wonderful,—I'll allays say that of you,—but you're lost among the keys."†   (source)
  • "Ay," snarled Mr. Tulliver, "there's folks as things 'ull allays go awk'ard with; empty sacks 'ull never stand upright."†   (source)
  • I allays said that o' Judith, as she'd bear a pound weight any day to save anybody else carrying a ounce.†   (source)
  • Adam doesna pick a that'n; I can understan' the tex as he's allays a-sayin', 'God helps them as helps theirsens.'†   (source)
  • I allays meant to be good to you, Gritty," said Mr. Tulliver, turning to his sister; "but you know you aggravated me when you would have Moss."†   (source)
  • At the instance of Mr. Turnbull, the medical man, Gore's letter was brought and laid on the bed, and the previous impatience seemed to be allayed.†   (source)
  • But folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done."†   (source)
  • Take no thought for the morrow—take no thought—that's what thee't allays sayin'; an' what comes on't?†   (source)
  • I can't abide new places mysen: things is allays awk'ard,—narrow-wheeled waggins, belike, and the stiles all another sort, an' oat-cake i' some places, tow'rt th' head o' the Floss, there.†   (source)
  • But she turned toward her brother again to say, "Not but what I hope your boy 'ull allays be good to his sister, though there's but two of 'em, like you and me, brother."†   (source)
  • But it isna religion as was i' fault there; it was Seth Bede, as was allays a wool-gathering chap, and religion hasna cured him, the more's the pity."†   (source)
  • "That's what you allays say, Mr. Tulliver; but I'm sure there's nobody o' your side, neither aunt nor uncle, to leave 'em so much as a five-pound note for a leggicy.†   (source)
  • But that's the way; folks mun allays choose by contrairies, as if they must be sorted like the pork—a bit o' good meat wi' a bit o' offal."†   (source)
  • Not but what I've allays conducted myself civil to your kin, and there isn't one of 'em can say the contrary, though my equils they aren't, and nobody shall make me say it."†   (source)
  • I'n done everythin' now, an' he'd like thee to go an' look at him, for he war allays so pleased when thee wast mild to him."†   (source)
  • 'count as Hetty must gether the red currants to-night; the fruit allays ripens so contrairy, just when every hand's wanted.†   (source)
  • "Ay, ay, Gritty," said the miller, with a new softness in his tone; "but I've allays done what I could for you," he added, as if vindicating himself from a reproach.†   (source)
  • Thy figurin' books might ha' tould thee better nor that, I should think, else thee mightst as well read the commin print, as Seth allays does."†   (source)
  • "I'd as lief not invite sister Deane this time," said Mrs. Tulliver, "for she's as jealous and having as can be, and's allays trying to make the worst o' my poor children to their aunts and uncles."†   (source)
  • I can't help loving the child as if she was my own; and I'm sure she's more like my child than sister Deane's, for she'd allays a very poor color for one of our family, sister Deane had."†   (source)
  • The hope allayed his anger a little.†   (source)
  • They say folks allays groon when they're hearkenin' to th' Methodys, as if they war bad i' th' inside.†   (source)
  • And the right doesn't allays win.†   (source)
  • Here's to your health, and may you allays have strength to look after your own dairy, and set a pattern t' all the farmers' wives in the country."†   (source)
  • For your name's like poison to him, it's so as never was; and he looks upon it as you've been the ruin of him all along, ever since you set the law on him about the road through the meadow,—that's eight year ago, and he's been going on ever since—as I've allays told him he was wrong——"†   (source)
  • But you war allays a rare un at shying, Mr. Tom, an' I could trusten to you for droppin' down wi' your stick in the nick o' time at a runnin' rat, or a stoat, or that, when I war a-beatin' the bushes."†   (source)
  • It might ha' been a trifle thicker an' no harm, an' I allays putten a sprig o' mint in mysen; but how's ye t' know that?†   (source)
  • I'm sure you remember my father, sir, for he was close friends with Squire Darleigh, and we allays went to the dances there, the Miss Dodsons,—nobody could be more looked on,—and justly, for there was four of us, and you're quite aware as Mrs. Glegg and Mrs. Deane are my sisters.†   (source)
  • I daresay he'd think me a hodd talker, as you Loamshire folks allays does hany one as talks the right language."†   (source)
  • I couldn't speak fairer; for as for the teapot as she doesn't want to go out o' the family, it stands to sense I can't do with two silver teapots, not if it hadn't a straight spout, but the spotted damask I was allays fond on."†   (source)
  • It's allays the way wi' them meek-faced people; you may's well pelt a bag o' feathers as talk to 'em.†   (source)
  • "Why, sir, it's none o' my inventing, and I should never ha' thought of it; for my husband, as ought to know about the law, he allays used to say as lawyers had never no call to buy anything,—either lands or houses,—for they allays got 'em into their hands other ways.†   (source)
  • Thee wast allays like a bag o' meal as can ne'er be bruised—though, for the matter o' that, thy poor feyther war just such another.†   (source)
  • I allays offer it along with the sherry, though sister Glegg will have it I'm so extravagant; and as for liking to have my clothes tidy, and not go a fright about the house, there's nobody in the parish can say anything against me in respect o' backbiting and making mischief, for I don't wish anybody any harm; and nobody loses by sending me a porkpie, for my pies are fit to show with the best o' my neighbors'; and the linen's so in order as if I was to die to-morrow I shouldn't be…†   (source)
  • The Miss Irwines allays say, 'Oh, Mrs. Poyser, I envy you your dairy; and I envy you your chickens; and what a beautiful thing a farm-house is, to be sure!'†   (source)
  • And you wouldn't like to have a corpse on your mind, if he was to die; and they _do_ say as it's allays unlucky when Dorlcote Mill changes hands, and the water might all run away, and _then_—not as I'm wishing you any ill-luck, sir, for I forgot to tell you as I remember your wedding as if it was yesterday; Mrs. Wakem was a Miss Clint, I know _that;_ and my boy, as there isn't a nicer, handsomer, straighter boy nowhere, went to school with your son——"†   (source)
  • It's allays been easier for me to work nor to sit still, but the real tough job for me 'ud be to master my own will and temper and go right against my own pride.†   (source)
  • But a fortni't ago I'd a rare bit o' luck,—I allays thought I was a lucky chap, for I niver set a trap but what I catched something; but this wasn't trap, it was a fire i' Torry's mill, an' I doused it, else it 'ud set th' oil alight, an' the genelman gen me ten suvreigns; he gen me 'em himself last week.†   (source)
  • Nancy declared that Tim the waggoner knew a song and was "allays singing like a lark i' the stable," whereupon Mr. Poyser said encouragingly, "Come, Tim, lad, let's hear it."†   (source)
  • …myself, and had more to put out almost every year, and it's to go and be sunk in other folks' furniture, and encourage 'em in luxury and extravagance as they've no means of supporting; and I'm to alter my will, or have a codicil made, and leave two or three hundred less behind me when I die,—me as have allays done right and been careful, and the eldest o' the family; and my money's to go and be squandered on them as have had the same chance as me, only they've been wicked and wasteful.†   (source)
  • Oh Dinah! shall I allays see it?†   (source)
  • It allays looks bad.†   (source)
  • Nay, I'n got no daughter o' my own—ne'er had one—an' I warna sorry, for they're poor queechy things, gells is; I allays wanted to ha' lads, as could fend for theirsens.†   (source)
  • And allays at her book!†   (source)
  • I allays said I'd never marry a man as had got no brains; for where's the use of a woman having brains of her own if she's tackled to a geck as everybody's a-laughing at?†   (source)
  • Yes," said Mrs. Poyser, returning from a parenthetic glance at the cows, "that's allays the reason I'm to sit down wi', when you've a mind to do anything contrairy.†   (source)
  • I've had enough to be thankful for: I've allays had health and strength and brains to give me a delight in my work; and I count it a great thing as I've had Bartle Massey's night-school to go to.†   (source)
  • Things allays happen so contrairy, if they've a chance; and it's an unnat'ral thing to have one bit o' your farm in one county and all the rest in another."†   (source)
  • Hetty's fear was allayed by and by, when she found that the coachman made no further allusion to her personal concerns; but it still had the effect of preventing her from asking him what were the places on the road to Windsor.†   (source)
  • I'm quite willing you should go and see th' old woman, for you're one as is allays welcome in trouble, Methodist or no Methodist; but, for the matter o' that, it's the flesh and blood folks are made on as makes the difference.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure I donna want t' go wi' the whittaws," said Molly, whimpering, and quite overcome by this Dantean picture of her future, "on'y we allays used to comb the wool for 'n at Mester Ottley's; an' so I just axed ye.†   (source)
  • I'd made a frame for a screen for Miss Lyddy—she's allays making something with her worsted-work, you know—and she'd given me particular orders about this screen, and there was as much talking and measuring as if we'd been planning a house.†   (source)
  • "Good-day, Mrs. Poyser," said the old squire, peering at her with his short-sighted eyes—a mode of looking at her which, as Mrs. Poyser observed, "allays aggravated me: it was as if you was a insect, and he was going to dab his finger-nail on you."†   (source)
  • Adam was keenly alive to these indications, and as his anxiety about Arthur's condition began to be allayed, he felt more of that impatience which every one knows who has had his just indignation suspended by the physical state of the culprit.†   (source)
  • "Ah," he said, "that's like the ladies in the pictures at the Chase; they've mostly got flowers or feathers or gold things i' their hair, but somehow I don't like to see 'em they allays put me i' mind o' the painted women outside the shows at Treddles'on Fair.†   (source)
  • And even if you'd marry Seth Bede, as is a poor wool-gathering Methodist and's never like to have a penny beforehand, I know your uncle 'ud help you with a pig, and very like a cow, for he's allays been good-natur'd to my kin, for all they're poor, and made 'em welcome to the house; and 'ud do for you, I'll be bound, as much as ever he'd do for Hetty, though she's his own niece.†   (source)
  • There's no comfort for me no more," she went on, the tears coming when she began to speak, "now thy poor feyther's gone, as I'n washed for and mended, an' got's victual for him for thirty 'ear, an' him allays so pleased wi' iverything I done for him, an' used to be so handy an' do the jobs for me when I war ill an' cumbered wi' th' babby, an' made me the posset an' brought it upstairs as proud as could be, an' carried the lad as war as heavy as two children for five mile an' ne'er…†   (source)
  • But, for the matter o' that, if everybody was to do like you, the world must come to a standstill; for if everybody tried to do without house and home, and with poor eating and drinking, and was allays talking as we must despise the things o' the world as you say, I should like to know where the pick o' the stock, and the corn, and the best new-milk cheeses 'ud have to go.†   (source)
  • "Her head was allays likely to be turned," he thought, "when a gentleman, with his fine manners, and fine clothes, and his white hands, and that way o' talking gentlefolks have, came about her, making up to her in a bold way, as a man couldn't do that was only her equal; and it's much if she'll ever like a common man now."†   (source)
  • But now I trust to God the term is come that my pain shall be allayed, that I shall pass out of this world so as it was promised me long ago.†   (source)
  • During the last day and night new fears had come, but new feelings had helped to allay those fears.†   (source)
  • But they do nothing to allay the fear of contagion.†   (source)
  • 'It is for that reason that I have come-to allay a mother's anxiety.†   (source)
  • You explained to the aunt that, to allay the suspicions of her husband, you had to pretend to pay court to the niece.†   (source)
  • With my bright idea bubbling in my mind, wishing to allay Granny's fears for my soul, wanting to make her know that my heart was not all black and wrong, that I was actually giving serious thought to her passionate pleadings, I leaned to her and whispered: "You see, granny, if I ever saw an angel like Jacob did, then I'd believe."†   (source)
  • Why, it seeks the drugs that allay pain!†   (source)
  • She must hurry back to camp and allay Jett's suspicions or fears concerning her.†   (source)
  • And even if he found nothing he would allay the unrest which gnawed at his heart.†   (source)
  • He would look around a little more at first in order to allay suspicion—ask about some socks.†   (source)
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