Gentle rain softens the ground and prepares it to receive the heavier downfall which would else mostly run off the hard surface.
There are no rougher words about what wrongdoers come to than some of Christ's words; and he has only given half his Master's message who hides or softens down the grim saying, "The wages of sin is death.
And now the Apostle's tonesoftens from exhortation to entreaty, and with very sweet and touching humility he begs a supplemental corner in their prayers.
Therefore he softens his voice to speak to Philemon, as Christ had softened His to speak to Paul.
Boiling water hardens and toughens some of the protein substances in food, butsoftens and makes digestible most of the substances included under the head of carbohydrates.
Cold water softens and dissolves into itself some of the protein substances, and also soaks out the nourishing qualities of carbohydrates.
Faith, while waiting to open the gates of heaven to you--faith, practical and ardent, wonderfully softens every trial here below.
Once, on awaking from her slumbrous state, she exclaimed to those who surrounded her bed: "It seems to me that I know now what the passage from life to death is; and I feel how God in his mercy softens it to us.
You soak your skull in lotions until your brain softens and your hat-band gets moldy from the damp, but your hair keeps right on going.
It is enough that the greatest scene in Gorboduc is precisely that scene where pathos softens by a momentary dimness of vision our horror at a mother's crime.
With never failing watchfulness of his audience Kyd softens the tension directly afterwards with a few light touches on the staging and disguises required for the forthcoming performance.
Her eyelids droop at the corners, and give her a pensive expression that softens the laughter of her blue eyes.
She softens this awful threat by a merry sweet-tempered little laugh.
Steeped for some time in cold water it softens and swells up without dissolving, and when again dried it ought to resume its original properties.
Orpheus's air, Che faro, is known to every one; but still finer is the great scena in which the poet's song softens even the ombre sdegnose of Tartarus.
The cooking softens and breaks down these tissues, thus rendering it easier for the digestive juices to penetrate and dissolve them.
This softens the hearts of the parents toward them until they become very indulgent.
In this case a firm swelling appears as large as the fist, which softens in the center and may finally burst and discharge.
The center partly softens and partly calcifies into a grayish mortarlike mass, and is gritty.
It softens up when heated, which is handy in shaping it though not so desirable afterward.
But when the point gets heated up again, as it does by friction in a lathe, it softens and loses its cutting edge.
Maybe," said Jean; "but its the flavor of the Scotch in the speech that softens my heart the most.
Faith in a providence softens punishment but does not do away with it.
The heart there softens and melts away like aromatics slowly dissolving in moderate heat, evaporating in delightful perfumes.
A superstition has been cherished from classical days that artistic and literary culture softens and refines manners.
He understood that the same cause may have totally different effects: the same heat which softens lead hardens clay, the same abilities which may send a man to penal servitude may elevate him to the dignity of an M.
Crime such as hers admits not long the sentiment that softens remorse of gentler error.
Winter softens the hard details of bare rock, and rounds the melancholy grassless mountain flanks, suspending icicles to every ledge and spangling the curved surfaces of snow with crystals.
Most wildness by degrees Softens away: yet, last of their line, the wildest and worst were these.
I know, too, a great Kaunian painter, strong As Herakles, though rosy with a robe Of grace that softens down the sinewy strength: And he has made a picture of it all.
But were I to concede that by the different forms of expression Paul softens the harshness of the former clause, it by no means follows that he transfers the preparation for destruction to any other cause than the secret counsel of God.
The experience it recites is common to humanity, and wherever its sweet tones are heard it softens men's natures and makes them better, truer and nobler.
The rock on the surface is as hard as flint, but underneath it gradually softens and furnishes an admirable stone for building which can be sawn into blocks of any size, hardening on exposure to the atmosphere.
If the zoogloea is formed on a solid substratum it may become firm and horny; immersion in water softens it as described above.
How often is it the means of drawing forth a mercy and a grace from others that softens the stony heart of the transgressor.
Does Mr. Byrth really think that this last refuge removes the insult of his Title, or softens its indictment?
It softensall the proud, irascible, and antisocial principles of our nature, in everything which regards that sex which is the object of it; and it increases the activity and force of all the kindly and benevolent affections.
This partially stuck brim is finally overlaid with a wet loose brim-cloth and properly ironed, the heat of the steam from the damp cloth softens the gutta-percha gum and effects the adhesion of the cloth to the fur body.
Her mind had been attuned to all harmony; and she had delighted in all that was bright and sweet in every art which softens the asperities of human existence.
If he does not paint pictures or chisel statues, he feels them, and their beauty softens his heart.
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