The once sweet lips had lost their softness of curve with their vermeil tincture and had fallen into hard repose.
She wondered, when he spoke, whether the softness in his voice were for her or whether it were merely a thing of habit.
And as he lost that softness of nature, so he lost his fear of men.
He felt the softness of her, and the warmth, and the quick heave of her breast.
Sharpness need not be hardness; on the contrary, sharpness and softness can be harmoniously combined in the representation of any object desired.
This is a spot, in sooth, that has few equals in any region, though Eve still insisted that the excellence of the view was in its softness rather than in its grandeur.
Whether there was now bitterness or softness in his speech she could not tell, but she found no reproach for herself in word or tone.
There was now a certain softness and innocence in his voice, which had portent, although I did not at that time suspect that he really had anything of consequence upon his soul.
There was a brisk southwest wind blowing, though it was not cool; rather there was a softness in the air, which was full of the noise of insects.
And there's a softness about her that she never had before.
She could show on her beautiful face the softness and the tenderness of an angel of light while a demon reigned in her malignant heart.
It is not very gallant I must confess to say this of the fair sex; but, most certain it is, they generally write with more softness than strength.
This part of the Ode which we have quoted, contains the most tender breathings of affection, and has as much delicacy and softness in it, as we remember ever to have seen in poetry.
Mr. Rowe knew how to value that treasure of wit, softness and virtue, with which heaven had blessed him; and made it his study to repay the felicity with which she crowned his life.
The color of her hair was lost in the profusion of powder with which it was covered; but a slight curling of the extremities in some degree relieved the formality of its arrangement, and gave a look of feminine softness to the features.
The washerwoman was pleased with the softness of her lover's manner, but dreadfully scandalized at his insinuation.
My wife was wearing a pink flannel dressing-gown; it made her look much younger, and gave a softness to her rapid and sometimes abrupt movements.
He sat down by her and said with a honeyed smile: "'The Little Russian reminds one of the ancient Greek in its softness and agreeable resonance.
Reverence said, coming up to the Spawer after the service and enfolding his hand in that warm, balmy, beneficent softness of palm.
All day she moved and spoke with a softness unwonted, indeed inconceivable.
No softness at the memory of her sister's love for the little child; no relenting.
For all her softness there was something irreconcilable about her.
What queer emotion when she put her face forward to his lips--a sort of passionate tenderness and shame, at the softness and warmth of that flushed cheek, at her beauty and trustful gratitude.
The wind had still the sapping softness of the afternoon, but rain had held off so far.
Come, if with softness of speech thou remove the Olympian's anger, Grace is at hand for us all, and returning benignity cheers us.
There was a softness in the air which soothed her somewhat excited brain.
Tall and slight, with fair hair and beard, and a false air of almost effeminatesoftness in his blue eyes, he was wonderfully active and curiously muscular as compared with his outward appearance.
With rather less softness of contour, it would have resembled the noble statue of Agrippina in the Capitol.
Rowland had never known anything so divinely soothing as the dreamy softness of that early autumn afternoon.
The leather, where uninjured, still retains the softness and lustre of kid.
Finally, the effects of shading must be added, the contrasts between piano and forte--loudness that brings the tones so near that they may seem threatening in their insistence; softness that makes them seem far away and dreamlike.
I see the softness and sweet-odorousness of the painted rose petal, just as I see the real rose soft and sweet; I see the surface of the statue firm and shapely, just as I see the human body so.
Go among women with the good qualities of your sex, and you will acquire from them the softness and the graces of theirs.
A lovely, dreamy softness overhung the scene, and the drops of rain that lay on every leaf and flower shone, but did not flash.
And strange to say that at this time human softness yet lived amid the dross and corruption of the world, for Thomas Stanfield was by no means indifferent to certain influences.
As much of Waller's reputation was owing to the softness and smoothness of his numbers, it is proper to consider those minute particulars to which a versifier must attend.
