Assuage

On the verge Of that dark gulf he wept, and said; “I urge Thee, gentle Goddess of my pilgrimage, By our eternal hopes, to soothe, to assuage, If thou art powerful, these lovers’ pains; And make them happy in some happy plains.” He turn’d—there was a whelming sound—he stept, There was a cooler light; and so he kept Towards it by a sandy path, and lo!

Meantime the mother goddess, full of fears, To Neptune thus address’d, with tender tears: “The pride of Jove’s imperious queen, the rage, The malice which no suff’rings can assuage, Compel me to these pray’rs; since neither fate, Nor time, nor pity, can remove her hate: Ev’n Jove is thwarted by his haughty wife; Still vanquish’d, yet she still renews the strife.

The memories swirled, silver white and strange, and without hesitating, with a feeling of reckless abandonment, as though this would assuage his torturing grief, Harry dived.He fell headlong into sunlight, and his feet found warm ground.

When she got home, she tried to assuage the pangs of remorse by spreading forth the lovely silk; but it looked less silvery now, didn’t become her, after all, and the words “fifty dollars” seemed stamped like a pattern down each breadth.

But history must not yet tell the tragedies enacted here; let time intervene in some measure to assuage and lend an azure tint to them.

Can it assuage One lover’s breaking heart?

“Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger.

The fact that Hunter had clearly brought them here as a safe haven was doing nothing to assuage her fear.

He’s able to comfort them when they get the mean reds; he’s able to assuage their crampy waves of homesickness with an hour or so of murmured conversation.

Meantime, with genial joy to warm the soul, Bright Helen mix'd a mirth inspiring bowl; Temper'd with drugs of sovereign use, to assuage The boiling bosom of tumultuous rage; To clear the cloudy front of wrinkled Care, And dry the tearful sluices of Despair; Charm'd with that virtuous draught, the exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind.

‘Perhaps I ought to be grounded and returned to the States.’ ‘Hasn’t it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?’ ‘Yes, sir, it has.’ ‘Then why do you do it?’ ‘To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.’ ‘Why don’t you get yourself a good hobby instead?’ Major Sanderson inquired with friendly interest.

As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.

It was like hunting for food to assuage a deep hunger.