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Definition of Soothful
1. truthful [adj] - See also: truthful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soothful
Literary usage of Soothful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Nay, soothful bards have said, So perilous his state seemed now He wished him
under arbor bough ' Son of Honor, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"While thus the dim mysterious depths resound; So let me strive to soften and
subdue My heart's dark swelling with a soothful song. [She plays and sings. ..."
3. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"... and taken on the restful, soothful, Boston air which comes with time and the
quiet self-congratulation that one is born in a Bible land ..."
4. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae by Boethius (1864)
"Then did Wisdom again Unlock his word-hoard well, And sang in soothful strain
The truths he had to tell. When with clearest blaze The sun shines in the sky, ..."
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