It is notorious that you may with impunity call a placable Frenchman. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
Oddly enough, he thought that this, too, was to be a "placable" play, written to amuse and stimulate, but calculated to wound nobody's feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
Miss Rebecca was not, then, in the least kind or placable. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
If not uniformly placable, Landor was always compassionate. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to All the Year Round] Reference
Mrs. Honour was altogether as placable as she was passionate. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
Stern as a soldier might be, but hearty, and placable always, 330. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
Naples, the placable Murat had forgotten his anger, and received him kindly. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
Till the implacables of her family change their natures, and become placable!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I have very seldom heard even the most gentle and placable woman speak without. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
Her temper was soft and placable, and her voice -- what is so sweet as the voice of an. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
Less placable were some of the influences which began to exert themselves further afield. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
Henry had just burnt his boats in his quarrel with Rome and was by no means in a placable mood. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Meanwhile Moses shows how placable Jacob was, and how easily he permitted himself to be conciliated. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
With all her virtuous indignation, the good old woman was of a placable nature, and easily appeased. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
Pomponia -- sister of Atticus -- seems to have been as high-tempered as her husband, and less placable. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
When Barnes Newcome thinks fit he can be perfectly placable in his demeanour and delicate in his conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
By means of this concession the placable creditors were able to bring the dissatisfied creditors to reason. From Wordnik.com. [Eug�nie Grandet] Reference
My Pamela is very placable; and as we have both been sinners together, we must both be included in one act of grace. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Also in early phases of thought the powers of nature became the minds of Nature--minds bestial, ruthless, and yet placable. From Wordnik.com. [From the Shambles] Reference
No man can bear less malice than I do; and, when I have once carried my point, I am one of the most placable creatures in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
Whilst thus he spoke, the Count's features expressed very different sentiments from those announced by his smooth and placable speech. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Her temper, never very soothing or placable, got entire possession of her life, and she rained stormy gusts of passion on her guilty lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
The words were spoken bitterly, with a flushed face and angry eyes, yet he who spoke them was one of the kindest and most placable of men. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
His lively perception and delicate feeling, irritated by wretched ill health, made him too quickly take fire, but his good sense and humanity soon rendered him placable. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
Earl mingled again in the conversation when the placable tone of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference
'The most placable creatures alive, and the surest for getting-up a shindy.'. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Could she condescend to the use of arts in managing him to obtain a placable life?. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
That man of gentle virtues and invincible benignity! placable and mild -- an idolator of peace!. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
He was kind, generous, fond of society, and, though rather quick in his temper, extremely placable. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
He was punished, half way to frenzy behind his placable demeanour, by having Dr. Schlesien for chorus. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
And twenty shindies per dime we've been havin ', and me such a placable body, if ye'll onnly let m' explode. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
But this was not a bear, nor anything else that is placable; it was a man with a hobby grievance; so he replied in character. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day] Reference
I thought it frank and straightforward, and I have written a private letter to the old boy of a placable and proper character. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
Thereupon Mr. Gammon bade them good night, and went his way, marvelling that Polly Sparkes had all at once become so placable. From Wordnik.com. [The Town Traveller] Reference
Throughout the cruise she was placable, satisfied with earth and sea, and constantly eulogizing herself for this novel state of serenity. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
I was neither born nor bred as a detective, but as a placable and very thirsty gentleman; and, for my part, I begin to weary for a drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Dynamiter] Reference
Her feeling was, that she forgave the wrinkled Malignity: pity and contrition dissolving in the effort to produce the placable forgiveness. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
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