Them he branded, as hypocritical materialists, and the country for pride in her sweetmeat plethora of them:-mixed with an ancient Hebrew fear of offence to an inscrutable Lord, eccentrically appeasable through the dreary iteration of the litany of sinfulness.
"One of Our Conquerors, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
Their monstrosity may have been meant, as it was certainly with the Mexican idols, and probably those of the Semitic races of Syria and Palestine, to symbolise the ferocious passions which they attributed to those objects of their dread, appeasable alone by human sacrifice.
"Literary and General Lectures and Essays"
Charles Kingsley
Indeed, he was of an appeasable nature, and on the whole a very good fellow.
"The House by the Church-Yard"
J. Sheridan Le Fanu