But her shoulders were high and square, and there was a sort of angularity and harshness about all the lines of her person.
The Marchese had replied with a savage ill-humour, that the old servant had never seen in his master before, that he did not want to see the Conte, leaving the domestic to modify the harshness of the reply as he might.
Even harshnessis less dangerous than anarchy, and from time to time measures were taken to provide against anarchy.
If the harshness and alkalinity be removed by using also an excess of calcium chloride, then the lyotrope influence of this substance enhances the solation of the hide gel.
If it be necessary to shorten the process and to use sulphide, this should be added only to the tail liquors of the round, and with it should be added, if possible, some calcium chloride to reduce the harshness of the soda.
He took, I think, a delight in being thus overharsh in his harshness to her.
To him, who was very hard in such matters, the idea of his visit was not made disagreeable by any remembrance of his own harshness to the woman whom he was going to see.
Accustomed as she was to obey implicitly the commands of her autocratic father, she knew that she must submit to the harshness of her spouse, and make the best of a most unfortunate and embarrassing situation.
Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Nor good neither,' answered Dominie Sampson, in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure.
The harshness of ancient codes makes a more humane age shudder.
The government was accused of illegal interference with the elections, with the use of the Hungarian arms and language in official documents, and with undue harshness in the censorship of the press.
There is ever a wide difference between the harshness of man and the cruelty of a woman!
She was induced to dwell on the exalting and touching circumstances of his last redeeming year, and her tears streamed calmly and softly, not with the harshness that had hitherto marred her grief.
But their harshness was retrieved by the upward curl at the corners of his mouth.
He looked for the lines of cruelty Dede had spoken of, and he found them, and he found the harshness in the eyes as well, the eyes that were muddy now after all the cocktails of the night before, and of the months and years before.
The homely harshness of Miss Keeldar's salutation won her the ear of the whole throng in a second.
The yellow tulip was a perfect weather-meter; if there was the least bit of harshness in the air, the least relic of the east wind, it remained folded.
Added to this, I became aware of the harshness she secretly bestowed upon poor Clara, whose private lectures were little else than tortures.
As long as He is what He is, covetousness and its child, harshness to the needy, will be sin against Him, and be avenged sooner or later.
Avarice, unbridled by the fear of God, leads by a short cut toharshness and disregard of the claims of others.
In the first place, remember that harshness or kindness in the treatment of the helpless depends in good degree--and always has depended--upon the temperament and mood of the individual custodian.
His countenance was mild; and though his manner was cold, he had none of the harshness and ferocity common to the Government agents of that time.
Prince's territory with a harshness equal to the kindness with which he had at first been received.
He found in them something of the harshness of youth, which is far too keen-edged to be tolerant with half performance and our poor human evasion of perfection's overstrain.
Over various dinner-tables Mr. Britling heard this and that first-hand testimony of harshness and spite.
Harshness usually denotes needless severity or an undue measure of severity.
A just reverence of mankind prevents the growth of harshnessand brutality.
Asperity and harshness arise from angry feelings, connected with a disregard for the feelings of others.
Tartness of reply; harshness of accusation; acrimony of invective.
For to conquer the harshness and deadness of tones laid upon stone or on gesso, needs the management and discretion of a true painter; and on this co-operation we must not calculate in laying down rules for general practice.
