The sooner, sweet, because of you,” said Othello, softening a little.
Mrs. Westwood waited till the storm had spent itself, there was no sign ofsoftening upon her face.
Home and its softening and soothing influences had no existence, till woman began to twirl the spindle.
He speaks eight or ten languages, up to certain limit, rather better than people born to them, and his presence commands an instant reverence softening to affection under his universal helpfulness.
There was no answer save in the strange softening of the eyes fixed upon the boyish face.
Deathlike yet lovely, every feature speaking In such dear calm and beauty to my sadness, And cradled still the mother's heart, in breaking, The softening love and the despairing madness.
Now, too, their bosoms wake To gentler thoughts, and own their softening sway Of love.
Now, with the sugar's All-softening juice, The strength of the acid So burning reduce.
The simple name brought a softening glow to Dick's eye.
But there are circumstances in which such self-restraint is rather an aggravating than a softening process.
This gave him a certain shock, in the softening of his heart.
She gave him a sort of smile, a softening of her stony face, and put out her hand to him.
Go and sit by those falls at evening, and watch the rosy glow of sunset settle with softening influence upon the upper cliffs, whilst below all is already steeped in mystery.
He did so very sternly, however, as though to protest against the idea that he was softening to the smallest extent.
He looked at everything in the same broad glare of intellectual sunlight, and would see no softening shadows that might alter the sharp outlines of cruel facts, subduing them to beauty.
Like him, it was sharp, frigid, and uncompromising: like him, it was merciless to distress and impregnable to the softening power of sunshine.
He knew the inflexibility of my character; to a certain degree he was acquainted with me, and knew that all attempts at softening my decision, or moving me from the fixed purpose of my life, would fail.
When some heavy fall of rain by wetting and softening the upper surface of the terrace, gives an opportunity for repairing the ravages of a long drought, the stone is taken backwards and forwards over the yielding pisé.
The Egyptians and Persians appear now and then to have succeeded in reconciling their subject races, and in softening their mutual hatreds by paying some attention to their political wants.
In other words, he thinks that many of the nonfatal hemiplegias are caused by vascular obstruction and softening and not by hemorrhage.
Calcium metabolisim in arteriosclerosis and in softening of the bones is not well understood.
The deeper layers of the endocardium during acute inflammation may become infiltrated with young cells, with resultant softening and destruction of the intercellular substance.
The fire in Vane's eyes awed Primrose, conquered her curiously, and a treacheroussoftening of the lines about her sweet mouth almost made a smile.
I will try to put the case before you as an outside person would put it, without softening or condoning.
The house stood bravely in the sunlight, but the branches above it were bare and no softening leafage hid the marks of time; it looked old and sad and deserted to-day, and its master gazed at it with a pang in his heart.
As he spoke he lifted his hand to his brow in stiff military salute, and over the fierce old face came the same wonderful softening which the twins had noticed a few minutes before.
A curioussoftening of expression came over the fierce old face as he spoke the last sentence.
Miles looked at her beneath drawn brows, his rugged facesoftening with the smile that Betty loved to see.
The softening influence of the years spent with Lahoma was no longer apparent in his shifting bloodshot eyes, his crouching shoulders, his furtive hand ever ready to snatch the weapon from concealment.
Lahoma found that the softening influence she had exerted was already fast dissipating.
They's something softening and enriching about that there Children of the Abbey; and Scottish Chiefs has got some mighty high work in it, too.
She lavished her sisterly affection on her brother, the condemned Tasheron, visiting him in prison and softening his savage nature.
That to you ambition could never offer a path equal to that wayside rambling life, over whose little accidents the softening influences of divine verse shed their mild light, so that the ideal world dominated the actual.
Are they who diffuse through existence its most elevating influences, its most softening emotions--are they hard of mould and stern in character?
The highest temperature found necessary to banish stress, that is, to cause softening to begin, was 465° C.
Ribbed’ and ‘Maze’ glass are of very great value in softening the light, especially when windows are directly exposed to the sun, aside from their effectiveness in strengthening the light at distant points.
If the corn is not severe simply softening by soaking in hot soapy water and paring with a razor-sharp knife blade will often suffice.
The resulting softening of the skin permits of its rubbing off easily, and abrasions and blisters are apt to form.
He adapted the ancient satires of the Tuscan and Oscan stage to the closet, by refining their grossness, softening their asperity, and introducing railleries borrowed from the Greek poets, with whom he was familiar.
In this letter I detect a certain softening of feeling towards Mrs. Rebecca Caulfield.
