Our melodramas were transplanted bodily; our comedies were coarsened and exaggerated into farces; sometimes even, that nothing might be lost, our operas were ground down into plays.
It was not their fault if they brought to the poet a taste somewhat coarsened by the success of Our Boys and the Pink Dominoes, and a soul closed to the higher enjoyments of the imagination.
But adversity had not soured Mr. Dreux; it had not dimmed his pride nor coarsened his appreciation of beauty; he remained the gentle, suave, and agreeably cynical beau.
For five or six hundred years men carved less well, wrote verse less well, let roads fall slowly into ruin, lost or rather coarsened the machinery of government, forgot or neglected much in letters and in the arts and in the sciences.
It became coarsened and less in its material powers.
Her forty years had not coarsened her as they do most Italian women, and her eyes still held the unshaken confidence of extreme youth.
Then the light fell suddenly lower and revealed the coarsened jaw, with the almost insolent strength of the closed lips.
A poorly dressed man, with a work-heavy face and coarsened hands.
With a curious thrill under her heavy bosom, Mrs. Sardotopolis held out her work-coarsened palm to the gypsy.
Her heavy coarsened face seemed to grow surprised as she stared into the bundle.
True dancing, that is, not the acrobatics of the professional dancer, which result in coarsenedugly limbs and stilted action.
Natalia stirred restlessly, finally taking hold of Dicey's coarsened hand and holding it close to her face.
Natalia pressed the long-coarsened fingers as they clung to hers.
And the yellow devil who built for him his house of dreams coarsened his desires as well, and wove a husk, fibrous, warm, and red, about his soul.
I truly hope, if I am wrong in this, that you will see it instantly, and not permit the edge and temper of your fineness to be coarsened through me.
A change hadcoarsened her like a puff of air on a still pool.
Charlie, she decided, had grown hard and coarsened in the evolution of his ambition to get on, to make his pile.
Long ago she had revised those first superficial estimates of them as gross, hulking brutes who worked hard and drank harder, coarsened and calloused by their occupation.
He was a young man, with marks of brilliancy showing through the dissipation betrayed by his silvery hair and coarsened features.
He paused, and when he spoke again a change hadcoarsened his features.
The countenance of the judge had unquestionably once been noble, and perhaps also beautiful; but the massive features were now coarsened by dissipation.
His eyes moved to the window, and she followed the large, slightly coarsened features of his profile and the fullness of his jaw which lent a suggestion of brutality to his averted face.
When she sprang up and faced him in her coarsened beauty, it seemed the most natural thing in the world that he should accept the fact of her presence with merely an ironic protest.
Beyond he found another puff-ball, one of the second crop, rising like a roc's egg out of the abnormally coarsened turf.
I looked down at my shabby clothes, and stared in bewilderment at my coarsened hands with the broken nails.
I felt her coarsened grubby little hand gripping mine; slowly she drew me back away from the door.
The face that he exposed was not pleasant to look upon, for it was coarsened by dissipation, and the eyes were both violent and furtive.
Cantwell was a strong man, and, although the North had coarsened him, yet underneath the surface was a chivalrous regard for all things weak, and this the trail-madness had not affected.
The humor of men in the open is not delicate; their wit and their words become coarsened in direct proportion as they revert to the primitive; it is one effect of the solitudes.
The core of chrome-nickel case-hardened steel, like that of nickel steel, is not coarsened excessively by the first heat treatment, and therefore a single heating and quenching will suffice.
It hurt him to see anything so shapely coarsened with hard work.
She kept her clear, rosy skin in spite of the pastry and sweets and the indolent life, and even the layers of powder with which she was forever dabbing her face had not coarsened its texture.
She grew stout, too, and unwieldy, and her skincoarsened from lack of care and overeating.
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