It seemed to the excited girl to be a soft tranquillising veil let down upon the agitations and excitements of the day.
"Old Kensington"
Miss Thackeray
The silence of the country was very tranquillising and quieting.
"Old Kensington"
Miss Thackeray
The incident was, in the nature of things, almost overpoweringly exciting to his wife, in spite of the truly miraculous courage with which she supported it; and he desired, therefore, to call in the aid of the mysteriously tranquillising effect of familiar scenes and faces.
"Robert Browning"
G. K. Chesterton