Over an excellent breakfast he arranged further explanations and excuses for the appeasement of Mrs. Bowman.
"Short Cruises"
W.W. Jacobs
It was simply a manifestation of rage and a means of appeasement.
"Since Cézanne"
Clive Bell
Having no relations with Clerkenwell Close, they did not even hear the rumours which spread from Mrs. Peckover's house at the time of Jane's departure thence; their curiosity, which only grew keener as time went on, found no appeasement save in conjecture.
"The Nether World"
George Gissing