"Tranquilizing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little bedside tales of the tranquilizing order are grouped in this neat little book for the pleasure of little people and the ...
— Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore • Amy Brooks
... precincts, and throughout the camp a popular form of expletive, known as "D—n the luck!" and "Curse the luck!" was abandoned, as having a new personal bearing. Vocal music was not interdicted, being supposed to have a soothing, tranquilizing quality; and one song, sung by "Man-o'-War Jack," an English sailor from her Majesty's Australian colonies, was quite popular as a lullaby. It was a lugubrious recital of the exploits of "the Arethusa, Seventy-four," in a muffled minor, ending with a prolonged dying fall at ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte |
