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Example sentences for "soft and"

  • Then Miss Oliphant's voice, rich, soft and lazy, was heard within the shelter of her own apartment.

  • Priscilla turned and met the full gaze of lovely eyes, brown like a nut, soft and deep as the thick pile of velvet, and yet with a latent flash and glow in them which gave them a red, half-wild gleam now and then.

  • The sandstone is of the coarsest quality, almost a conglomerate, and is soft and friable; exposure to the air might probably harden it if quarried, when it would be available for rough building.

  • The wood is soft and spongy, and becomes very light when dry.

  • The grass there is soft and fresh, the trees are cool and green, and the mellow light of morning is over them all.

  • Some of the pilgrims walk where the grass is soft and cool; he chooses the paths that are full of stones and thorns.

  • Now as for thee, thou'rt soft and of a manlihood indifferent, so would I rate thee at one gold piece.

  • THE VOICE: 'O voice so soft and full of sweet allure!

  • Djalma started, and could not restrain a cry of surprise and joy; but this almost trembling exclamation was so soft and sweet, that it seemed rather the expression of ineffable gratitude, than of exulting passion.

  • As soft and aerial as the balmy vapor of incense, it mounted and spread through the lofty arches.

  • If she, so soft and yielding as he had always judged her, could take this decided step--what could not happen?

  • It was very different with Holly, soft and quiet, shy and affectionate, with a playful imp in her somewhere.

  • To James' great relief they reached the house at last; the silence and impenetrability of this woman by his side, whom he had always thought so soft and mild, alarmed him.

  • The fawn-coloured cow, with eyes as soft and brown as Irene's own, was standing absolutely still, not having long been milked.

  • Windsor shone nearly as bright over the green vale as those charming houses on Richmond Hill, and the verdure was not less soft and delicate.

  • When all adown the silent deep The shades of night are stealing; When like a curtain, soft and vast, The darkness over all is cast, And sombre stillness comes at last, To the mute heart appealing.

  • Then they praised him, soft and low, Called him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe; Yet she neither spoke nor moved.

  • It must be the nearness of the river that makes the tone of the bells so soft and mellow!

  • At other points, where the contour is almost lost, the line can be soft and blurred.

  • If the object have a shiny surface these lights are clear and distinct; if a dull surface, soft and diffused.

  • But although melting into the surrounding mass, they are always firm and never soft and feeble.

  • But at last we see him get to the professor's head, and sort of raise up soft and look a good spell in his face and listen.

  • A lake, wide and shiny, with pa'm-trees leaning over it asleep, and their shadders in the water just as soft and delicate as ever you see.

  • When I was left alone and in my own little crib, in which my slumber had ever been so soft and easy, I might as well have been lying upon cut straw.

  • Of the specimens I have seen the fur is soft and of a light sandy brown above and white below, very like M.

  • The tail is short, the fur set vertically in the skin, whence it is soft and velvety.

  • The fur is soft and long, rufous brown or fawn colour above, white below, the colours being less sharply distinguished than in G.

  • By making incisions in the trunk of the tree, from which the fluid resin issues in great abundance, appearing of a milky whiteness at first, but gradually becoming of a dark reddish color, soft and elastic to the touch.

  • It is a kind of mineral, of a deep shining black or bluish color, soft and unctuous to the touch; it is insoluble in acids, and infusible by fire.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about forty; ecclesiastical jurisdiction; folks used; fundamental laws; high grass; olden time; period when; preventing conception; soft brush; soft dough; soft ground; soft iron; soft linen; soft palate; soft parts; soft paste; soft pine; soft porcelain; soft soap; soft steel; soft voice; soft wood; this camp; whose life; wide expanse; wings black