Assuagements

On the Wednesday and Thursday he seemed to take some interest in his bags and portmanteaus, and began himself to look after those assuagements of the toils of travel which are generally dear to young men. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making Mr. Bounderby softer than usual towards Mrs. Sparsit, and harder than usual to most other people from his wife downward. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Page 144 the virgin Atalanta in the act of according very curious assuagements to her lover's ardor. ❋ Unknown (1917)

This sense of Beauty is something in me which demands not simply gratification but the best and keenest of a sense or continuance of sense impressions, and which refuses coarse quantitative assuagements. ❋ Unknown (1906)

For a time the sea proved very beneficial to Kate's health, but the never-ending surprises and expectations she was exposed to finished by so straining and sharpening her nerves that the stupors, the assuagements of drink, became, as it were, a necessary make-weight. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making ❋ Unknown (1868)

Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making Mr. Bounderby softer than usual towards Mr.. Sparsit, and harder than usual to most other people from his wife downward. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1868)

But the mind swollen with rage seeks such assuagements. ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)

The cardinal, in fact, took it patiently, revising and then confirming the treaty with Spain, and imposing on the Huguenots a peace so hard, that they would never have accepted it but for the hope of obtaining at a later period some assuagements, with the help of England, which refused formally to help them to carry on the war. ❋ Unknown (1830)