He saw the old princess too, flushed and overwrought, with her gray curls in disorder, forcing herself to gulp down her tears, biting her lips; he saw Dolly too and the doctor, smoking fat cigarettes, and Lizaveta Petrovna with a firm, resolute,
reassuring face, and the old prince walking up and down the hall with a frowning face.
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of
reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
Doubtless, too, he realized as well as she the futility of his weapon, and that he had only called attention to it in the hope of reassuring her and lessening her anxiety.
To her they seemed to indicate nothing but bestial rage while to Tarzan of the Apes they were conciliatory and reassuring in the extreme.
Wall Street, the next day, had more
reassuring reports of Beaufort's situation.
Field--Nathaniel Field, author of The Fatal Dowry, and an actor of reputation--in his singular costume, and with a face of perhaps not quite
reassuring subtlety, might pass for the original of those Italian, or Italianized, voluptuaries in sin which pleased the fancy of Shakespeare's age.
Poor youth, she would come to the window if she were able, I am sure, to sign that the one little unkindness is long forgotten, to send you a
reassuring smile till you and she meet again; and, if you are not to meet again, still to send you a
reassuring, trembling smile.
He pressed her arm with an air of
reassuring proprietorship.
Rosalind was very
reassuring on that point, and then said musingly, as if half to herself, "But that hill is dangerous, you know; and young people would do well to pay attention to the danger-board!"
A book for young children that is
reassuring about an upsetting situation that many face for being different; as gentle and
reassuring as having your father braid your hair.
SPIN doctors congratulated each other for getting "strong,
reassuring headlines" for the Government after the Grenfell Tower disaster.