The system would be adopted, the article says, to put an end to the ruinous costs of "punitive expeditions of merely ephemeral pacificatory value.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Juan Cole: Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not!] Reference

The shouts of the crowd sounded pacificatory, entreating; they blended into a thick, indistinct babel, in which there was something hopeless and pitiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother] Reference

Authorship is becoming, if not already become, too much of a trade or craft to admit of such a pacificatory scheme: but the object of the association is one of the highest importance to literature, and we heartily wish it success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827] Reference

Gasha (who, to judge by her angry flushed face, was in a state of great irritation) and Doctor Blumenthal — the latter a little man pitted with smallpox, who was endeavouring by tacit, pacificatory signs with his head and eyes to reassure the perturbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boyhood] Reference

Influences generally bad; pacificatory but bad, engaging you in idle, cloudy dreams; still worse, promoting composure among the palpably chaotic and discomposed; soothing all things into lazy peace; that all things may be left to themselves very much, and to the laws of gravity and decomposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference

After the adoption of this declaration, in which it was said "that they had counted the cost of the contest, and found nothing so dreadful as slavery," Jefferson was placed on a committee with Dr. Franklin and others, to consider and report on Lord North's pacificatory resolutions, which was denounced in the same spirit as it had been scouted previously by the provincial assemblies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Austin, in his pacificatory epistle to Jerom, on the contest with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply] Reference

'Molly's but four-and-twenty,' said Sylvia, in a pacificatory tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3] Reference

"That is quite true," observed Raleigh, with a pacificatory nod at Noah.    From Wordnik.com.  [A House-Boat on the Styx] Reference

It emits pacificatory Proclamations, not a few; with more or with less result.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

It was not until July first that Paoli received news of the pacificatory decrees passed by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference

At this period he addressed a letter to General Guidal, in which he offered pacificatory proposals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Napoleon]

"Ruth, wouldn't you like to take a good long drive over to Norridgewock, after the grain is in?" he asked in pacificatory tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference

Had a similar policy been pursued with respect to other gross abuses, the effect upon the public mind would have been most pacificatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference

So that Miss Firkin took nothing by her motion beyond a few of those smoothen-ing and pacificatory speeches, which, when administered to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Philly Firkin, The China-Woman] Reference

"I-- I didn 'say I had any objection to fightin'-men, not when they're quiet," Mrs Bosenna made haste to observe in a pacificatory tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hocken and Hunken] Reference

Blumenthal -- the latter a little man pitted with smallpox, who was endeavouring by tacit, pacificatory signs with his head and eyes to reassure the perturbed Gasha.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boyhood] Reference

Had this pacificatory principle been discovered earlier, "The Letters of Phalaris" would never have fluttered Europe, and Swift would have had no need to write "The Battle of the Books.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

"There's no use of sending the Judge, anyhow," said Raleigh, fearing by the glitter that came into the eye of the commander that trouble might ensue unless pacificatory measures were resorted to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq.] Reference

While the leaders on both sides frequently deny that their organizations betoken the existence of a far-reaching fundamental class conflict, and, through ostensibly pacificatory organizations like the National Civic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles] Reference

Labor are identical, and the existence of pacificatory associations based upon that myth, there is no fact in the whole range of social phenomena more self-evident than the existence of an inherent, fundamental antagonism in the relationship of employer and employee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles] Reference

Gentlemen! "said Glenn, waving a white, pacificatory hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

In Windham, Connecticut, in 1762, the adoption of this pacificatory measure only increased the dissension when it was discovered that some miserable "bachelors who never paid for more than one head and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference