1886. J. Ashby-Sterry, Lazy Minstrel (1892), 163. Sweet are the zephyrs, hay-scented and soothful. Ibid. (1896), Tale Thames, iv. (1903), 28. A picture … agreeable to the eye and soothful to the mind. Ibid., 36. There was an indescribably soothful feeling about the place.
