sooth saying造句

• And people used all their powers of sooth saying to support their opinions and actions, despite the fact that even at the time of the incident, the coverage showed this was anything but.
• Four witnesses reported that the Smiths used divining rods in the Palmyra area, and sometime between Joseph Smith's eleventh and thirteenth years, he began " following his father's example in using a divining rod . " Magical parchments handed down in the Hyrum Smith family may have belonged to Joseph, Sr . Lucy Mack Smith noted in her memoirs that while family members were " trying to win the faculty of Abrac, drawing magic circles or sooth saying, " they did not neglect manual labor, " but whilst we worked with our hands we endeavored to remember the service of & the welfare of our souls . " Smith's reputation among his Palmyra neighbors was that of a " nondescript farm boy " who was " lazy and superstitious, " and townspeople viewed his family as " treasure-seekers, not eager Christians . " Thus, Smith was reared in a family that believed in prophecy and visions, was skeptical of organized religion, and was interested in both folk magic and new religious ideas.