The voice of MacNair was the quiet voice with which one sooths a petulant child.
"The Gun-Brand"
James B. Hendryx
199. "Hope, the balm of life, sooths us under every misfortune."
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown
While sorrows thus his patriarch pride control, Hesper reproving sooths his tender soul: Father of this new world, thy tears give o'er, Let virtue grieve and heaven be blamed no more.
"The Columbiad"
Joel Barlow