Her cordial look, when she put out her hand to him, softened his expression, but only with melancholy.
" "I have only wished to prevent you from hurrying us into wretchedness without any necessity," said Rosamond, the tears coming again from a softened feeling now that her husband had softened.
Plymdale, her native sharpness softened by a fervid sense that she was taking a correct view.
They were sombre blues, opaque like a delicately carved bowl in lapis lazuli, and yet with a quivering lustre that suggested the palpitation of mysterious life; there were purples, horrible like raw and putrid flesh, and yet with a glowing, sensual passion that called up vague memories of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus; there were reds, shrill like the berries of holly—one thought of Christmas in England, and the snow, the good cheer, and the pleasure of children—and yet by some magic softened
I hoped that the grief which now seemed intolerable would be softened by the lapse of time, and a merciful forgetfulness would help him to take up once more the burden of life.
Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire.
Catherine could have raved at the hand which had swept away what must have been beyond the value of all the rest, for the purposes of mere domestic economy; and would willingly have been spared the mortification of a walk through scenes so fallen, had the general allowed it; but if he had a vanity, it was in the arrangement of his offices; and as he was convinced that, to a mind like Miss Morland's, a view of the accommodations and comforts by which the labours of her inferiors were softened, mu
At one moment she was softened, at another irritated; always distressed, but always steady.
These powers received due admiration from Catherine, to whom they were entirely new; and the respect which they naturally inspired might have been too great for familiarity, had not the easy gaiety of Miss Thorpe's manners, and her frequent expressions of delight on this acquaintance with her, softened down every feeling of awe, and left nothing but tender affection.
At fifteen, appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls; her complexion improved, her features were softened by plumpness and colour, her eyes gained more animation, and her figure more consequence.
The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened the high window and fluttered in the vagrant breezes were of pale-green art muslin.
Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly.
" This speech which would have softened good Mrs.
" Marilla looked at Anne and softened at sight of the child's pale face with its look of mute misery—the misery of a helpless little creature who finds itself once more caught in the trap from which it had escaped.
The Harvard-trained lawyer conscientiously softened her image and speeches in order to be more "likable," becoming better known for her fashion and her unending support of her husband than for her stance on political issues.
Writing in the Financial Times, Kellaway says that even though she didn't believe the woman was really her fan, she was softened up nevertheless.
,," Sindu softened a bit and wiped her tears with the back of her hands.
But after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and weak.
That's now been softened and broadened into what's being called a Universal National Service - partly because of concerns that it would cost too much and overburden the country's armed forces.
Catelyn softened then, to see his pain.
