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  • An angry god who had to be appeased with blood.†   (source)
  • "The Vatican will always be grateful for that," the secretariat said, his tone appeasing, "and yet there are those who still believe your financial munificence in 1982 is the only reason you were granted prelature status in the first place."†   (source)
  • So I should just go through the motions, appease everyone, and when I didn't get picked, everyone would drop it.†   (source)
  • I think sometimes I can appease the mailman; I see his jeep approaching from a mile away and I say a quick series of prayers, the way I do when a promising cloud appears on the low horizon.†   (source)
  • Bibwit Harte was a loyal fellow, and it was because of his loyalty to Genevieve and Alyss and White Imagination that he determined, then and there, to ensure his own survival by appeasing Redd.†   (source)
  • Have I become, suddenly, one of those who must be appeased?†   (source)
  • She knew it was completely dry, but at least it would act as a pacifier and keep him occupied while she decided what to do to appease his hunger.†   (source)
  • The septa was not appeased.†   (source)
  • I swing open the door and reluctantly follow him to the fence, hoping if I appease him this one last time that I'll get a quick explanation from him.†   (source)
  • To appease Sagarmatha this year-as every year-the Sherpas had built more than a dozen beautiful meticulously constructed stone chortens at Base Camp, one for each expedition.†   (source)
  • Curiosity (killed the cat; satisfaction brought him back) was like a constant fishhook in his brain, a kind of nagging siren song that would not be appeased.†   (source)
  • You'd think they'd welcome anything that might appease the Shrike, but the only thing the mob would notice is that you were chosen by the Shrike Church.†   (source)
  • Mike could have been more graceful about it, but at least Jess seemed appeased.†   (source)
  • Mae was unsure what she could say to appease Gina.†   (source)
  • Chente didn't want us to be given the runaround or appeased without real educational advances.†   (source)
  • Anna laughs, too, and I can't tell whether she finds it funny or whether she's trying to appease him.†   (source)
  • We don't have sex, we barely touch, but we are husband and wife in a marital bed, which appeases Amy for now.†   (source)
  • But after the death of his father he learned all there was to know about the different forms of cholera, almost as a penance to appease his memory, and he studied with the most outstanding epidemiologist of his time and the creator of the cordons sanitaires, Professor Adrien Proust, father of the great novelist.†   (source)
  • Now I had two angry souls to appease with half-truths.†   (source)
  • Wennerström is going to crush Millennium unless he is appeased by my having stood down.†   (source)
  • "Okay, maybe Elliot didn't attack you," I said, trying to appease Vee but not about to clear Elliot's name.†   (source)
  • I fell in with them, became drunk on ale, and as they were hunting Nagran, decided that I too should kill a boar and bring it to Hrothgar to appease his anger at me.†   (source)
  • "I don't know what's going to happen," I replied softly, trying to appease him.†   (source)
  • I open my purse and check the contents of my wallet, only to appease her.†   (source)
  • How do you appease an essential faction in the Resistance when they stupidly insist you help her save her brother?†   (source)
  • "You know what my favorite flavor of yogurt is," I say, hoping to appease her.†   (source)
  • The amende was so sweetly made that even Lydia Sessions, still exceedingly employed at being pictorially chagrined over the depravity of her neophyte, could but be appeased.†   (source)
  • Had he said it to appease her?†   (source)
  • This appeases Mrs. Nightwing, who smiles.†   (source)
  • We are the billy goats and nanny goats and kids—all the scapegoats to appease this blindness.†   (source)
  • He wanted to find out about the madman in the woods as quickly as possible, to check if there ever really had been a Captain Flume, but his first chore, he recalled with reluctance, was to appease Corporal Whitcomb for neglecting to delegate enough responsibility to him.†   (source)
  • A flower tower was exactly what was needed to appease Beautiful Moon's spirit.†   (source)
  • Here he is, a master at playing people, at managing their needs his way and on his behalf, and yet there's no appeasing this boy, nothing works.†   (source)
  • I cried to appease them, "I shall be your priest!"†   (source)
  • He's a renegade and a liar; do you really think any attempt to appease him would benefit us in the end?†   (source)
  • Jake would have plenty of time to coach Lettie into testimony that might appease the jury.†   (source)
  • Now you re suggesting that we go out of our way to appease the Horde?†   (source)
  • Isn't that enough to appease your thirst for drama and send you home to sleep it off?†   (source)
  • If it be determined in thy Providence that thousands of our fellow creatures shall this day be slain, let thy wrath be appeased, and in mercy grant that victory be on the side of our suffering, bleeding country.†   (source)
  • Or had it been the gesture of a man seeking to appease a God who seemed to want not the love and awe that the Scriptures asked of us, but an endless surfeit of our suffering.†   (source)
  • Mother seemed to attempt to appease Grandmother but only to a limit.†   (source)
  • He looked surprised, as if he'd not expected that evidence, but he wasn't altogether appeased.†   (source)
  • Still, she is not so foolish that she would continue a war once she had some victory to appease them.†   (source)
  • Sarah helped deflect his anger; the prospect of having someone new to chase seemed sufficient to appease him.†   (source)
  • If he held the train, they would make him the scapegoat to appease the anger of Mr. Chalmers; if he sent the train through and it did not reach the western portal of the tunnel, they would put the blame on his incompetence; they would claim that he had acted against their orders, in either case.†   (source)
  • Frodo's tone was proud, whatever he felt, and Sam approved of it; but it did not appease Faramir.†   (source)
  • "That's better, Nothin'," Pig said, appeased as last.†   (source)
  • Or they could provoke a foreign power into looking like a threat, and then appease it with concessions.†   (source)
  • His life is much easier when she is appeased.†   (source)
  • My lust shall be appeased by simply taking your treasure!†   (source)
  • Claudia certainly is evil," was all I could come up with to appease Ben.†   (source)
  • What you've got, Lieutenant, is a maniac on the loose, and a desperate need to appease your superiors and the public with an arrest.†   (source)
  • The enemy could not be reasoned with or dismissed; it could not be appeased by an American withdrawal from the Islamic world.†   (source)
  • I, at least, make him take one picture with his brother and sisters on the first day of school and he appeases me, because I'm his mom, and he loves me!†   (source)
  • He was finally appeased by Yurii Andreievich and withdrew and vanished without a trace.†   (source)
  • They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.†   (source)
  • He must have been trying to appease my father.†   (source)
  • This might even appease the rebels temporarily.†   (source)
  • I will not waste precious time to appease my conscience in a futile exercise.†   (source)
  • To appease her, I say, "Go pick out an ice cream," and Kitty heads off toward the frozen-food aisle.†   (source)
  • Very hard job, trying to appease all the gods at once.†   (source)
  • A mere show of obedience without inner commitment would not have appeased the God of Genesis.†   (source)
  • I order something off the lunch menu, just to appease him.†   (source)
  • She came from the South, and it appeased them for a while.†   (source)
  • I tried to appease her with the same story I told Breckin, but she wasn't buying it.†   (source)
  • "Funny," I reply flatly in order to appease him.†   (source)
  • The man with the star upon his brow was not appeased.†   (source)
  • If so, what is it she demands of me, and what am I to do to appease her?†   (source)
  • Bodies were left at crossroads in the hope that the Atropos would be appeased.†   (source)
  • Trying to appease him, it isn't going to work—"†   (source)
  • "From birth, you were destined to be Hera's—to appease her wrath.†   (source)
  • Turnips are not like to appease Salladhor Saan.†   (source)
  • Trying to appease him, I scooped up my makeup and handed it to him also.†   (source)
  • That ought to be sufficiently grisly to appease even Oberyn Martell.†   (source)
  • The spokesman from Termalaine looked back again and was appeased; the women and children were safe.†   (source)
  • Then she said in an appeasing voice, "You certainly have put your time in."†   (source)
  • He tried to think of words that might appease them.†   (source)
  • Castles and courtesies will not appease him, he must have blood.†   (source)
  • She's appeasing him, but he's far too pompous to realize that.†   (source)
  • I've seen it many times, her dithering, fumble-footed efforts to appease him.†   (source)
  • Yet even that did not appease his Lord Steward.†   (source)
  • I have been considering how best to appease Oberyn Martell and his entourage.†   (source)
  • After I announce the dismissal tomorrow, that will appease the public and my father, but I don't want to rush you at all.†   (source)
  • But crazed with thirst and hunger he will surmount his fear, and he will do whatever is necessary to appease his need.†   (source)
  • Even worse: the spaces in her mind where she managed to appease her memories of the dead man were slowly but inexorably being taken over by the field of poppies where she had buried her memories of Florentino Ariza.†   (source)
  • Martin Silenus closed his eyes and said: "Considering that, all hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, seif-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will; She can, though every face will scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still.†   (source)
  • Mom even said she hadn't wanted to name you Jason, but Zeus insisted, as a way to appease Hera because the goddess liked that name.†   (source)
  • I nod, just to appease him.†   (source)
  • They shall emerge from the sea, with skins of metal and the . limbs of beasts, and we shall appease them as gods returned….†   (source)
  • That will not appease Lord Frey.†   (source)
  • Momentarily appeased, Nick ceased struggling but continued to eye the imp hungrily, giving periodic snorts.†   (source)
  • –so I was relieved and appeased to find Jamie sitting in the doorway to the big garden, his back turned on the human world behind him, unmistakably waiting for me.†   (source)
  • But it seems there is more to it more things to be memorized, more songs to be sung, more nickels to be donated, before he can be truly appeased.†   (source)
  • Cersei was not appeased.†   (source)
  • He'd left the house early that morning, and though both he and Charlie came home with mahi-mahi that day, it wasn't enough to appease his wife.†   (source)
  • You had to appease ghosts.†   (source)
  • If that wasn't enough to appease them, if missing a single call could end his career before it started, then he wasn't sure he wanted to work in television.†   (source)
  • We cannot anger the Varden, and if this council is to control it once Nasuada is in place, then we must appease them.†   (source)
  • Make your plans, find a way to appease our public, and I will give you an acceptable window of time to pull it all together.†   (source)
  • "This isn't about appeasing the public.†   (source)
  • He didn't look completely appeased.†   (source)
  • He nods, and I think he's appeasing me.†   (source)
  • Stannis was not appeased.†   (source)
  • To continue would be to subject yourself to an array of torments for no other reason but to appease your sense of duty.†   (source)
  • But because of giving myself away so many times, for so many years, only to appease others, in hope of their acceptance, I hesitated.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, in the reckless folly of youth, a dragon might decide to disgorge his heart of hearts merely to appease or impress his Rider.†   (source)
  • Do you want to have to explain to Orik why his flocks of Feldunost keep disappearing, or do you want to have to keep appeasing angry farmers who have lost their animals?†   (source)
  • That Elyon s anger toward those who refuse him must be appeased by the drowning before we can embrace them.†   (source)
  • We received no ironic messages in our mail slots nor any menacing communiques slipped beneath the door to our room, and after a week of vigilance we concluded that our silence had appeased The Ten.†   (source)
  • I kissed her cheek and hopped up, thinking of the week ahead and hoping it would somehow appease everyone.†   (source)
  • How would she be able to provide a proper funeral, clean their graves at New Year, or appease them when they fretted in the afterworld?†   (source)
  • "You appease the Stark boy with his father's bones and strip your sister of her protectors in one swift stroke.†   (source)
  • The man smiled a friendly smile, but there was something wrong with it that Carla couldn't put her finger on: this smile had a bruised, sorry quality as if the man were someone who'd been picked on all his life, and so his smiles were appeasing, not friendly.†   (source)
  • Let your duty be appeased now, and give me your oath of fealty in the ancient language, and ere the hour is out, you will have a dozen servants to command, robes of silk and damask to wear, a set of chambers to live in, and a place at my table when we dine.†   (source)
  • If someone other than a westerman was needed to appease the Tyrells, there was always Mathis Rowan …. or even Petyr Baelish.†   (source)
  • I acquiesced to this ridiculous request, partly to appease him and partly because the events of the last months had left me unsettled and confused.†   (source)
  • It had seen more than one unruly goblin put to a slow death for disobeying, or simply to appease the wizard's distorted taste for pleasure.†   (source)
  • Without hesitation—just as I always had when faced with a confrontation that dealt with others' feelings—I appeased her by shutting up, swallowing my pride, and forgetting about it.†   (source)
  • "Is there anything I could do, any custom or ceremony of yours I could perform, that would appease Vermund and his followers?" asked Eragon, naming the current grimstborith of Az Sweldn rak Anhuin.†   (source)
  • If one head was enough to appease a prince of Dome, a bag of them should be more than adequate for a fat northman wrapped in sealskins.†   (source)
  • Yet should a crop fail or a war be lost, we cut his throat to appease the gods and choose a new prince from amongst the forty families.†   (source)
  • Biggrin's only chance was to take care of the two intruding warriors and hope that their heads would appease its unmerciful boss.†   (source)
  • That did little to appease them.†   (source)
  • You will not appease him with the offer of two hoary old brigands and the second son of the fattest man in the Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • …Lord…… To affirm and reaffirm our fealty to the Triumvirate, recite with me the Nine Oaths…… By Gorm, Ilda, and Fell Angvara, we vow to perform homage at least thrice a month, in the hour before dusk, and then to make an offering of ourselves to appease the eternal hunger of our Great and Terrible Lord…… We vow to observe the strictures as they are presented in the book of Tosk…… We vow to always carry our Bregnir on our bodies and to forever abstain from the twelve of twelves and the…†   (source)
  • The maesters will tell you that King Jaehaerys abolished the lord's'right to the first night to appease his shrewish queen, but where the old gods rule, old customs linger.†   (source)
  • It preferred the demonstrations that Kessell demanded of it to appease his own insecurities over the constant struggle of control it would face against the powerful demon.†   (source)
  • I tossed her into a cell to appease Ser Loras, but I'll believe in Renly's ghost before I believe she did him any harm.†   (source)
  • It was whispered about the fleet that Euron's wizards had much and more to do with that, that the Crow's Eye appeased the Storm God with blood sacrifice.†   (source)
  • Littlefinger was not appeased.†   (source)
  • If Edmure and Roslin were happy in one another, if the Late Lord Frey could be appeased and his power once more wedded to Robb's ….†   (source)
  • It immediately pinpointed the exact location of the summoner and, though it had to tuck its broad shoulders to pass through the narrow entrance to the dell, it charged straight in, intent on appeasing its curiosity and then killing the blasphemous fool that dared utter its name aloud.†   (source)
  • If any of the Freys had taken it upon themselves to climb my gate for a close look at the man with the onion in his mouth, I would have blamed my gaolers for the error and produced you to appease them.†   (source)
  • It is them we should appease.†   (source)
  • That should appease them.†   (source)
  • His High Holiness had to be appeased.†   (source)
  • The lad did not seem appeased.†   (source)
  • Daniel Webster, according to his critics, fruitlessly appeased the slavery forces, Thomas Hart Benton was an unyielding and pompous egocentric, Sam Houston was cunning, changeable and unreliable.†   (source)
  • When her hunger was appeased, Effie dabbed her mouth and looked at us.†   (source)
  • But instead of appeasing them, it gave them more material to work on.†   (source)
  • Appeased somewhat, she was still emphatic.†   (source)
  • She had to appease him with the most abject of apologies.†   (source)
  • Diana, miraculously aware of the flight and death, could now rest appeased.†   (source)
  • Third, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers.†   (source)
  • But Mama had put in many years of appeasing tempestuousness or staying out of its way, and she very likely had more trouble as a result of one of Simon's visits than she ever did with her companions.†   (source)
  • While part of my soul drank in her words and believed in them, another part appeased me with a nod and took note that Hermine too, for all her wisdom and health and assurance, had her fantasies and twilight states.†   (source)
  • His mother had hung up the dish-rag and had turned slowly as though loath to undertake the task of appeasing him and stood silent, placing no obstacles in the path of his anger.†   (source)
  • He was vaguely appeased.†   (source)
  • But in spite of everything he did to appease her, she continued to have her tantrums and often he thought she acted like one possessed.†   (source)
  • The answer seemed to appease the lady.†   (source)
  • I had had no intention of letting her hear me curse, but since she had heard me and since there was no way to appease her, I decided to let things develop as they would.†   (source)
  • And the common people burst into his house howling and demanding his life for what he had done, and when he saw he would be killed he ran and jumped into the water and drowned himself, and thus the people were appeased.†   (source)
  • After he has appeased the watchers of the kingdom of the dead and made his way past the numerous perils, he comes at last to the Lord of the Underworld, Erlik himself.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the sun was warm; hunger and thirst had been appeased, if not satisfied; and the air, clean as from another planet, was more precious with every intake.†   (source)
  • However, the residents of this part of the town threatened to migrate in a body, convinced that germs were raining down on them from the sky, with the result that an elaborate apparatus for diverting the smoke had to be installed to appease them.†   (source)
  • Helen rushed out to the playhouse and with large gesture and hearty entreaty strove to appease outraged Annie.†   (source)
  • And though she had tried every means to appease him and had stretched forgiveness far beyond the limit, he continued to destroy her rice fields and to pollute her institutions.†   (source)
  • When in this mood even the highest gods appear as malignant, life-hoarding ogres, and the hero who deceives, slays, or appeases them is honored as the savior of the world.†   (source)
  • After the bears, there threatened a pair of serpents, then winds, then lightnings: the guardians of the ultimate threshold. t All were readily appeased, however, with the words of the prayer.†   (source)
  • Hunger he had known; and when he could not appease his hunger he had felt restriction.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sir," the cook eagerly interpolated, with appeasing and apologetic servility.†   (source)
  • If we ran after her and tried to appease her, it did no good.†   (source)
  • "It is only a boy," said Dr. Panna Lal, appeased.†   (source)
  • No more we have said Phyllis, partially appeased.†   (source)
  • Then he went into an appeased sleep, belching now and then contentedly into the soft warm darkness.†   (source)
  • But Mrs. Morel would not be appeased on Jerry's score.†   (source)
  • Edna tried to appease her friend, to explain.†   (source)
  • It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'†   (source)
  • And though I did have hunger and appeased it, I could not waken her, even for food.†   (source)
  • The wrath of the slaveholders was somewhat appeased by the capture of Nat Turner.†   (source)
  • They are like wolves whom nothing but flesh can appease.†   (source)
  • Say to him, then, Edwards, say to him, all that can appease his anguish.†   (source)
  • Nothing could console and nothing could appease her.†   (source)
  • My hunger, sharp before, was, if not satisfied, appeased by this hermit's meal.†   (source)
  • Satisfy the populace; I undertake to appease the bailiff, who will appease monsieur the cardinal.†   (source)
  • Mary was appeased by her inclination to laugh.†   (source)
  • Have you still that devouring thirst which can only be appeased in the grave?†   (source)
  • 'Mr F.'s Aunt is appeased, I hope?' said Clennam.†   (source)
  • 'Go along with you, sir!' said my aunt, anything but appeased.†   (source)
  • Our appetites appeased, we felt an urgent need for sleep.†   (source)
  • But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom.†   (source)
  • This question at once appeased the growing ire of the half-offended Indian beauty.†   (source)
  • The fury of the woman would not be appeased.†   (source)
  • The merriment of Hawkeye was not easily appeased.†   (source)
  • 'Now,' she said, 'is your pride appeased, you madwoman?†   (source)
  • When his own labor was stolen from him, he had stolen food to appease his hunger.†   (source)
  • I only want some money," said Laurie, walking on again, appeased by her hearty tone.†   (source)
  • "What do you mean?" demanded the archdeacon, who had been gradually appeased by this recital.†   (source)
  • He was bitter about the slaying of his brothers, Gareth and Gaheris, and would not be appeased.†   (source)
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