With one accord and some asperity my sister and I requested him to desist.
The asperity with which the official asked me what we had to say sent my heart into my boots.
The turn of his criticism; the airiness, or the asperity of his sarcasm; the arrogance with which he treated some of our great authors, would prove very amusing, and serve to display a certain talent of criticism.
He came down to the House and attacked this Bill with an asperity quite inconsistent with his abstaining from throwing it out.
I think Henry might have controlled his temper, when poor Edward was so near his end," said she with an asperity which disturbed slightly the roseate curves of her beautiful mouth.
Her mockery, her impatience, her picturesqueasperity were a kind of game which she played with herself, to disguise, sometimes even from herself, the greatness and the oversensitiveness of her heart.
Something of the old Hebrew raciness is lost in the transfusion; but much of its asperity is softened and pared down in the adaptation.
There are fewer firsts this year than there have been for the last nine years," said Gerard, thinking to soften the asperity of Wilkinson's position.
You will if you wait," advised Farrell, a tinge of asperity in his tone.
The Press goes on attacking Canning with great asperity and injustice, and nobody here defends him.
He was rebuked with some asperity by Tom Baring, his own political adherent, and by Lord John Russell, who declared it to be the duty of the House to give every support to the Government in such a crisis.
In the midst of the controversy at home the publication of the Oxford Tracts added new asperity to it.
Whatever there is at present of asperity in the emulous labors of the competing denominations, would it not be manifold exasperated if the competition were restricted to four great corporations or confederations?
Tartness denotes slight asperityand implies some degree of intellectual readiness.
Asperity and harshness arise from angry feelings, connected with a disregard for the feelings of others.
It is no very cynical asperitynot to confess obligations where no benefit has been received.
Needless to say the fumes of his recent orgy spoke then with some asperity in a curious bitter way foreign to his sober state.
In the question of the grazing lands his peevish asperity is notorious and in Mr Cuffe's hearing brought upon him from an indignant rancher a scathing retort couched in terms as straightforward as they were bucolic.
He dwelt at length on their unfitness for entering on matters of government, and commented with some asperity even on their present apologetical petition.
The council often wrote to them, as well as concerning them, with a sort of asperity which would astonish one of their successors.
Theodora suffered perhaps more from this unexpected display of kindness, than from the brutal asperity and violence which the Moor had before evinced.
An imperturbable gravity sat upon those harsh features which were never known to relax into a smile, and in whose expression predominated a mixture of religious asperity and pride, vainly disguised under the cloak of humility.
But," said he with some asperity of tone, "my permission is not the only one you are to obtain, Don Lope.
The asperity therefore of this speech, and the total rejection of her project, threw her into an agony of passion which ended in an hysteric fit.
There is, indeed, some apology for the asperity of his manner; and perhaps I was in some measure to blame.
They seemed in sullen resentment to have been preserved; and Emmeline could not but reflect with pain on the anger and asperity in which they were written; on the remorse and uneasiness with which they must have been read.
Emmeline, without seeming to attend to the asperity of the address, desired to introduce Colonel Fitz-Edward.
There being no Speaker authorized to keep order in the Lords, when "heat is engendered in debate," it is open to any peer to move that an ancient Standing Order referring to asperity of speech be read by the Clerk.
He spoke with peculiar asperity of Sprat, who had undoubtedly been the most humane and moderate member of the board.
The following secondary canons go far to soften down the asperity of her Protestantism.
No," Basterga answered, with something of asperity and even contempt in his tone.
And his asperity increased by the fear that he was taking an unwise step, he told the youth, in curt stiff sentences, such facts as he thought necessary.
Great heat and asperitywere manifested in the discussions of Congress throughout the present session.
The latter injured his cause by the embittered feelings manifested in his vindication, and the asperity with which he spoke of Washington there and elsewhere.
