propitiatory

Perhaps he knows, as I do, that the letters are propitiatory.

They also keep a propitiatory eye on the gods of their predecessors.

He makes no attempt to be obscure or propitiatory in this connection.

The dance was propitiatory, never secular, and performed only by males.

"I bought a book," he said, handing her the propitiatory volume.

He knew that his voice was propitiatory, almost servile, and hated himself for it.

At any other time Lewisham might have been propitiatory, but now he offered no apology.

Even the propitiatory gestures of the creature failed to disarm me.

Saying this, with a jerk of his body, which might have been either propitiatory or derisive, he fell into step beside me.

Osceola always knew when her neighbors left propitiatory offerings.

He even smiled a rusty but propitiatory smile.

The little women came out of their corner hesitantly, directing nervous, propitiatory glances toward the pair.

They portray dancing figures performing a propitiatory rite, perhaps shamans.

(He seemed to forget the propitiatory sacrifice he had made.)

Was it a badge - an ornament - charm -- a propitiatory act?

The rite is both symbolic and propitiatory.

He was wearing a propitiatory smile.

"Of course, I can see you're thinking all this pretty tolerably weird and all that," he proceeded, in a propitiatory voice.

He brought Saladin little presents: propitiatory offerings of books, old theatre handbills, masks.

A propitiatory prayer ends the work.

One could well understand primitive early races making propitiatory sacrifices to the spirit of a great river on whose shores they dwelt.

A propitiatory sacrifice - so, to be eaten.'

Mr. Ledbetter, by an effort, smiled a wan propitiatory smile.

Behind them, with a propitiatory smile on his face, stood his lordship of Dreever.

He sighed, stretched out his hands in a propitiatory way toward the fire, begetter of molten type-face.