"Pacifically" Quotes from Famous Books
... his vigilance on seeing the burglar so pacifically disposed, and comes forward swinging the poker between his fingers like a well folded umbrella]. It is neither just nor right that we should be put to a lot of inconvenience to gratify your moral enthusiasm, my friend. You had better ... — Heartbreak House • George Bernard Shaw
... no harm and feels that we are all comrades in this matter," said Winslow pacifically, while ... — Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... more than a hundred persons were captured whom they threw into those pits alive where they killed them, and they burnt more than a hundred houses in that town. 29. Thus they joined one another at a large town and, without calling the Indians pacifically, nor sending interpreters to summon them, they made cruel war on them, and persecuted them, and killed great numbers of them. And as soon as they joined one another as has been said, the aforenamed Ampudia told the captain ... — Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt |