Arabella, "I fear that we shall not ever be able to soften the heart of the King by any tears that we may shed.
Shed through unnumbered years, To soften the hard stone, Long ere this weary day, Melting like snow away, Ye to the dust had gone.
Then she strove to extract hope from some fruitless effort to soften the cold and obdurate heart of the King,--as the alchymists of the day attempted to draw gold from lead or iron.
Though were there power in tears, Dropp'd through unnumbered years, To soften the hard stone, The torrents that the dead Within these walls have shed, Had of those towers left none!
Though there were power in tears, Shed through unnumbered years, To soften the hard stone, There, fruitless would they prove!
Oh, Heaven forbid," cried Ida Mara; "we will soften these stones first with our tears.
I fear not the sultan at this distance, and I can soften him with presents.
Yet even in the midst of this corruption and ignorance, there were not wanting some redeeming qualities, which soften our feelings towards the ecclesiastic power.
The terror of Arcadius tried in vain to soften his rage, or satisfy his ambition with vain titles, among others, that of Count of the Illyrian Border.
But death did not softenthe animosity of his foes.
He so glowed and smouldered with inner wrath that the folds of his fat neck seemed to soften and to be in danger of melting together.
Jack's clear brown eyes dominated hers with all the force of the man and the judge, while hers in vain sought to soften them; and the pathos of it was that it was the son judging the mother.
Robert guessed it all, and whatever remorseful love could do to soften such a strain and burden he tried to do.
A pleasant incident happened on this march, one of those trifles whichsoften the horrors of war.
Under Franklin nothing was left undone that could properly be done to soften the rigors of war to non-combatants.
I always found that our regular officers were more anxious to soften the rigors of war, and to avoid all unnecessary severity, than our volunteers.
Soften its horrors and gild its loathsomeness as you may, there will always remain enough to revolt all who are not wholly lost.
It would soften the hearts of many, and hold the hands of those who would break down the bridge behind the sinner, could they know the awful misery that frequently attends the life of a fallen woman.
That is what I fancy, for I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move.
He had turned his ankle in the fall, and there we sat, he with his useless foot, and I with my throbbing head, and we talked and talked until gradually my bitterness began to soften and to turn into something like sympathy.
They were expressive eyes, as a rule keen and hard, but they could soften unexpectedly under the influence of emotion.
She remembered her dazed glance round and the rushing thought of how she could soften its ugliness.
She could not look stern, but she had a look without a dimple to soften it, and her eyes shone.
She has a prim tenderness and charm of manner which soften her rather cutting voice.
He was astonished to see her eyes soften with tears, and to hear the real emotion in her voice as she answered, "It was just heaven down there with you until you turned so funny-like.
Perhaps it was not without some compunction of feelings-perhaps it was done to soften the separation at that moment so necessary to the preservation of the children.
Neither by soft pleadings, nor threatenings of sale to plantation life, nor terrors of the lash, can hesoften the creature's sympathies, so that the flesh may succumb.
Education would be valuable to the negro, especially in his old age; it would soften his impulses rather than impair his attachment, unless the master be a tyrant fearing the results of his own oppression.
It may not subdue tongues, but it will soften whispers.
It is also true that melons shipped during excessively hot weather, unless under refrigeration, will soften more rapidly than those shipped during cooler weather.
Seedlings of many of the garden crops are unable to force their way through the crust formed on the soil after heavy rains, and it is necessary either to break the crust with a steel rake or soften it by watering.
In spite of his repulsion for the man, Kunin felt suddenly sorry for him, and he wanted to soften his cruelty.
Please God, we will have a drink to-morrow," he said, wishing to soften his stem refusal.
Then the rivers ran black with the waste of the rocky earth they furrowed, and there was no vegetation to soften the bleakness of the landscape.
If some solvent acid is present in the water that percolates through these rocks it may soften the cement and thus free the pebbles, reducing the conglomerate again to a mere heap of shell fragments, or gravel, or rounded pebbles.
There was still rage in her heart against her daughter, as if her obstinacy had some connection with this blow of fate, and she did not soften the announcement.
The good wine did in some sort softenthe squire; but, as a matter of course, nothing further was said as to the new matrimonial scheme.
They intend to offer something which shall soften and not aggravate the sorrow that they have caused.
Let us pray that He may soften her heart," said the old lady.
Eh, mother;--nothing can soften the heart Satan has hardened, till it be hard as the nether millstone.
The manner in which this was said was not such as to soften the harshness of the sentiment.
Such drawings should therefore be made two or three times larger than the engraved cut in order to subdue all unnatural effects and to soften the general tones.
Photographs that are to be retouched should be large enough to permit sufficient reduction to soften the effects of retouching.
When the meal was over, and they all dispersed with their different interests, it was Mary who sought to soften what she considered the disappointment of her boy.
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous.
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