Strange as it may appear, the idea, so far from increasing the acerbity of his feelings, had the tendency to soften his heart towards her.
What had passed between her and Mr Arabin, had not, alas, tended to lessen theacerbity of her spirit.
There is nothing godlike about us: we differ from each other with the acerbity common to man--we allow differences on subjects of divine origin to produce among us antipathies and enmities which are anything but divine.
But now, in August, they had little acerbity to spare for anything but the government's conduct of Irish affairs.
They spoke withacerbity of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald and Mr. and Mrs. Philip Snowden.
Moreover, she was polluting by acerbity the pure friendliness of the atmosphere, and endangering cheer.
An acerbity scarcely intentional somehow entered into his tone.
It was not difficult to see that a new soldier had been enlisted in the service; there was something so fresh and hearty about the abuse that it could never have proceeded from the worn-out acerbity of an old slasher.
I had conceived a strong desire to conciliate the good opinion of a man who had treated me with so singular and so familiar a kindness, and it was sincerely that I expressed my regret at the acerbity with which I had assailed Dr.
Into these wearisome quarrels we need not enter, further than to note that they were envenomed by theacerbity of the Prussian ambassador at Vienna.
At this late hour of night, in the warm atmosphere of the kitchen, all his acerbity and determination melted away.
Madame Lecoeur's acerbity of temper was brought to a pitch by what she called La Sarriette's ingratitude, and she spoke of the girl in the most violent and abusive language.
Indeed, it resembles this last in color and shape, also, in the acerbity that mingles with the acid of the unripe fruit.
IF the English autumn be sad, and the English spring be sour, the smiling beauty of the English summer should expel the memory of gloom and acerbity from the mind of the tourist who is not afflicted with bronchitis.
Although his mother tried hard she could not keep the acerbity out of her tones as she turned to me.
But my mother-in-law's acerbity was softened by her weakness.
Even Mother Graham's acerbity was softened by the suffering I underwent in the first day or two following the accident, although I soon discovered that she was actually jealous because Lillian and not she was nursing me.
At last Herbert Le Breton turned with some acerbity to his brother Ronald, and asked in a voice of affected contempt, 'Who is this woman?
Radical,' he said, slowly, with a certain delicate tinge of acerbity in his tone.
There is no Florentine blackguardism, no acerbity of scorn or stain of blood-lust on their pages.
What had passed between her and Mr. Arabin had not, alas, tended to lessen the acerbity of her spirit.
My cup of grief will possess sufficient acerbity without mingling with it the gall of revenge.
The allegorical allusions were but two well understood; and though they added but little to the knowledge already in his possession, that little produced a renewed acerbity of spirit.
Bitter thoughts within rendered him unconscious of what was passing without; and I felt that any effort I might make to soften the acerbity of his reflections would be idle.
Perverseness, one of the forms or issues of self-pity, made him strive against his desire, and caused him to adopt a tone of acerbity in excess of what he felt; but already he had made up his mind to see Amy.
She knew him well enough to understand that such a notice would irritate him profoundly; but why should he go out of his way to show it her, and with this peculiaracerbity of manner?
His tone bespeaks a settled and civilized period favourable to art and philosophy, in which subtlety was appreciated, while the old feelings of acerbity had become greatly softened.
The failings of the fair seems always to have been a favourite subject for men's attack, but reflections of this kind have decreased in number and acerbity since the days of Aristophanes.
In debate, Foster was the most formidable, but Albert Lester's acerbityof temper fixed the tone of the discussion.
Then he said some very heavy things against the Lord Chancellor, and increased in acerbity as he described what he called the altered mind of his honourable and learned friend the Attorney-General.
He ended up by remarking with great acerbity that exiled queens with political business in their hands should not choose religious houses as their place of retirement.
It explains the intense acerbity of the conflict, and the flaming depth of the chasm which divided and divides the two camps in France.
But he found a satisfaction for the ban he had withheld, in an increased acerbity of manner in his allusion to the kitchen-door.
