And the reward of habits of regular exercise and habitual cheerfulness is the ability to meet the world at every turn in the consciousness of power to master it, and to meet men with that good cheer which disarms hostility and wins friends.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
That Don Luis has risked his life to save one dear child from destruction, disarms me of my revenge; but from henceforth you must be as strangers to each other."
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
Her remorse at seeing what man she has deceived disarms his anger, and marks the dawning of a moral sense in her; and he is dismissing her gently, with all the money he can spare, when Pippa passes-singing.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr