The hermit pushed his glasses down, settled into place the white gloves, with their soothing contents of emollient greases, and got to his feet.
"The Unspeakable Perk"
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Could Wallace have wept, it would have been then; but that gentle emollient of grief was denied to him, and, with a voice of assumed cheerfulness, he renewed his efforts to encourage his desponding servant.
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter
There is a common high-handed cant among the high-feeding, and, as they fancy themselves, high-minded men, about putting down the mob; but all true physicians know that it is better to sweeten the blood than attack the tumour, to apply the emollient rather than the cautery.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving