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But happily they soon slipped back into younger, more placable versions of themselves.

But there was no escape from that im- placable male.

Its muzzle was a gray circle no more placable than the eye that aimed it.

Dr. Warner was a placid but hardly a placable person.

With all her virtuous indignation, the good old woman was of a placable nature, and easily appeased.

If not uniformly placable, Landor was always compassionate.

He knew not what it was to feel indignation against vice, and often boasted of his placable temper, and readiness to forgive injuries.

Unfortunately they began by approach- ing Lieut. Feraud, on the assumption that, having just scored heavily, he would be found placable and disposed to moderation.

Of Felipe, vengeful and placable, full of starts and shyings, inconstant as a hare, I could even conceive as a creature possibly noxious.

I had learned long ago that he only carried just so many rounds of ammunition, and was sure to subside into a very placable and even remorseful old smooth-bore as soon as they were all gone.

He, in the first instance, won the hearts of his people by his affable and gracious manners; he was always placable, and never inflicted any severity of punishment upon those who occasionally rebelled against him.

"He was", says the same authority, "of a placable nature, and greatly favoured of the king, to whom he performed diverse good services, especially in the troubles he had with the church: a man universally beloved and well-esteemed of by all wise men".

My Henry had his weaknesses; I was twice driven to flee from his roof, but not for long; for though he was easily over-excited, his nature was placable below the surface, and with all his faults, I loved him tenderly.

He had been unfairly treated over the Oxford affair; and with a spice of malice very surprising in one so placable, and an obstinacy remarkable in one so weak, refused from that day forward to exercise the least captaincy on his expenses.

I drew Joe away, and he immediately became placable; merely stating to me, in an obliging manner and as a polite expostulatory notice to any one whom it might happen to concern, that he were not a going to be bull-baited and badgered in his own place.

I made a thousand apologies, and laboured so hard to represent the impossibility of my affording him relief by my own unassisted exertions, that at length I succeeded, and the Bailie, who was as placable as hasty in his temper, extended his favour to me once more.