Mrs Honour was altogether as placable as she was passionate.
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And he smiled the passive, placable smile of the experienced commuter.
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Charles had been a silent, placable man all his life through.
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He was mighty placable, and indicated his belief you had been drinking.
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Her feelings were warm and impetuous, but she was placable, tender and constant.
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They heard that the commissioners were placable, so they wished to make terms.
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Do not be too sure about it when it is placable and permissive.
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Like Peter Owen, he had begun to discover the holy terror beneath Spark's placable exterior.
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Nor, indeed, was the proper garrison of the fort in at all a placable mood.
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If a placable and exorable Providence, make thyself worthy of the divine help and assistance.
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The two Houses met in the spring of 1640, in no placable frame of mind.
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I'm not the most placable person when it comes to supermarkets, and such a conversation would have had an algesic effect on me, so we headed for a different checkout.
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I'm not the most placable person when it comes to supermarkets, and such a conversation would have had an algesic effect on me, so we headed for a different checkout.
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In some ways, Johnson seems like a less quirky, more placable version of Paul: he shares Paul's disdain for welfare and warfare, but not, for example, Paul's abiding passion for gold.
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For this, if necessary, he will petition the King of France. (Note that Strasbourg had been a part of France since 1681, but remained German and Lutheran for a long time). Mr. Humbrecht, who has become increasingly placable, promises Von Groeningseck every financial support.
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Although of a gentle and placable temper, we early discovered that he was impatient of indignity, and allowed of no superiority on our part. He knew that he was in our power; but the independence of his mind never forsook him. If the slightest insult were offered to him, he would return it with interest. At retaliation of merriment he was often happy; and frequently turned the laugh against his antagonist.
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He died on 14 August 1613, "having", according to his son-in-law, Archbishop Spotiswood, "attained to fourscore and two or three years". "He was", says the same authority, "of a placable nature, and greatly favoured of the king, to whom he performed diverse good services, especially in the troubles he had with the church: a man universally beloved and well-esteemed of by all wise men". His corpse was interred at Leith by his own direction, as desiring to rest along with that people on whom he had taken great pains in his life. cites: Hist.
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