Reassuring

Examples

• Mrs Lammle was proceeding with every reassuring wile, when the head of that young lady suddenly went back against the wall again and her eyes closed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She was thinking all the time of the perfect comforting, reassuring thing to say to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One would have supposed that it was I who was in danger, not he, and that he was reassuring me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It's a reassuring noise. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Wall Street, the next day, had more reassuring reports of Beaufort's situation. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He said, in what he meant for a reassuring tone, as they turned down a narrow road, 'And this is Pod's End; is it, Jupe? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• As soon as Caliphronas finished, the man went off up the staircase, and the Count turned round to his companions with a reassuring smile. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This was a delightfully reassuring idea supposing that Lydgate died, but in the mean time not a self-supporting idea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was reassuring, on such a night, to be told that some of the inn-servants had agreed together to sit up until morning. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It inspired me with new fortitude and new calmness to find that it was I who was under the necessity of reassuring him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The sensation of moving rapidly through these dark passages was far from reassuring. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In straits like these, when a man laughs, it is encouraging when he winks, it is positively reassuring. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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