What is "soothingly"

Usage examples of "soothingly".

Laura clung to the pillows as Amir Bedawi leaned over her and soothingly stroked her head.

He spoke soothingly to her, as though by calming Nozomi he might also comfort all two-million-plus of the lost, homeless souls who now clung to life within the very same habitat that had brought the First Neyel to the Coreworld of Oghen centuries ago.

They snorted and pawed the earth as Ronin and Matsu neared them so that their attendants were obliged to pull on their bits and talk to them soothingly in meaningless words.

He talked soothingly, doing for Prew now what Prew had done for him a while ago, still holding his arms outspread.

At the first howl the horses began to strain and rear, but the driver spoke to them soothingly, and they quieted down, but shivered and sweated as though after a runaway from sudden fright.

Sah-luma, irritated at the sudden interruption that had thus distracted the general attention from his own fair and flattered self, gave an expressively petulant glance toward Theos, who smiled back at him soothingly as one who seeks to coax a spoilt child out of its ill-humor, and then all eyes were turned expectantly toward the entrance of the audiencechamber.

Even sturdy Harim was agitated and although she murmured soothingly to him and stroked his shaggy mane, he kept jerking his head away.

Of all her attendants the only one whom she tolerates for more than a moment is Hanna, who speaks soothingly to her and gets her to drink from a silver cup.

Her mother agreed soothingly, packed up a pot of homemade marmalade and a rich fruit cake and begged her not to work too hard.

Judith fetched a towel, talking soothingly the while, tossing the fruit from the bowl because there was no chance to get to the kitchen and find another one, fetching more towels, propping Lady Cres swell against more pillows.

He was a vision of sartorial splendor, cool and fresh in a striped summer suit, hair soothingly short and pomaded, his wine-colored shirt and tie exquisitely matched.

Sir Walter, curbing his impatience, replied soothingly to these flights, and succeeded at last in coaxing him into the house, and upstairs to the chamber prepared for him.

Harrison didn't care for the sweet wine, but the ice, caravaned regularly into camp in straw-wrapped blocks, slipped soothingly down his throat.

He dementedly slapped two of them in the face and ordered them all shot on two different occasions before his Chief of Staff, Colonel Cheik, soothingly talked him out of it.

THREE OFFICES ON THE ADMINISTRATION SUBLEVEL OF MOONBASE tended to be deadeningly silentor soothingly so, depending upon one's viewpoint.