Crossword clues for lisse
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vb. (context obsolete English) To relieve, mitigate, assuage (pain etc.).
Wikipedia
Lisse is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. Its population was in . Located within the municipal boundary is also the community De Engel.
Usage examples of "lisse".
She has her own somewhat direct methods of warfare, and I understand that she called on Madame Lisse with the intention of giving her fits.
Madame Lisse, settling down into her furs with an air of secret enjoyment.
The Studio Lisse is a growing concern, my friend, and I propose to remain at the head of it.
They paused outside the hated windows of the Studio Lisse, hesitated for a moment, and then disappeared through the entrance.
Mandrake remembered that Nicholas had known Madame Lisse was coming to the party and saw him take up a proprietary position beside her.
Hart glared at them, which he did repeatedly, Nicholas bent towards Madame Lisse and uttered a loud and unconvincing laugh calculated, Mandrake supposed, to show Dr.
Madame Lisse began to talk to Mandrake about his plays, Jonathan chimed in, and once again the situation was saved.
It was upon a conversation piece, with Madame Lisse very much in the centre of vision, that Mrs.
Compline could not be aware of the affair between Nicholas and Madame Lisse, so composedly did she acknowledge the introduction.
For perhaps a full second neither of the women spoke and then, for all the world as if they responded to some inaudible cue, Chloris and Madame Lisse were extremely gracious to each other.
Whenever Madame Lisse spoke he bent towards her and, whether her remark was grave or gay, he broke out into an exhibition of merriment calculated, Mandrake felt certain, to arouse in Chloris the pangs proper to the woman scorned.
Madame Lisse, Sandra is afraid of a terrible incident in her past, Madame Lisse, though I must say she does not reveal her fear, is perhaps a little afraid of both Hart and Nicholas.
Madame Lisse sat between Jonathan and Nicholas, Chloris between Nicholas and William.
Nicholas, who had the air of a professional diner-out, embarked upon a series of phrases directed equally, Mandrake thought, at Madame Lisse and Chloris Wynne.
They were successful gallantries, however, for both Chloris and Madame Lisse began to look alert and sleek.