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On this principle, I had previously doubled the pay of some of the officers, without whose incessant exertion, I could not have effected the tranquillization of the province.

From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of

Its purpose was to invest the Bakufu chief with permanent authority to command all the military and naval forces throughout the empire for the defence and tranquillization of the country.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

She had now merely to add a few touches to the tranquillization of Daphne, and the misdirection of the twin's curiosity.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

These agencies tend to the tranquillization of society; and as a tranquillizing influence, they tend to the security of property.

From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by Weylland, John Matthias