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Letter "A" » appeasing
«Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
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Politicians
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«And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter? / Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.»
«CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.»
«After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.»
«Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.»
Author: Ovid
(Author, Poet)
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appeased, appeases, appeasing, captivate, captivated, captivates, captivating, Jupiter
«Still ailing, Wind? Wilt be appeased or no?»
«The hunger of the hungry is not appeased; by mere words, hunger is not relieved.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
appeased, appeases, appeasing, hunger, hungry, relieved, relieving, The Hunger
«Considering that, all hatred driven hence,The soul recovers radical innocenceAnd learns at last that it is self-delighting,Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
affright, affrighting, appeases, appeasing, Considering, delighting, recovers
«No human ear shall ever hear me speak;No human dwelling ever give me food,Or sleep, or rest: but, over waste and wild,In search of nothing, that this earth can give,But expiation, will I wander on --A Man by pain and thought compelled to live,Yet loathing life -- till anger is appeasedIn Heaven, and Mercy gives me leave to die.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
appeased, appeases, appeasing, expiation, human ear, In Search Of
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