Noun, : The cause of her anger did not warrant such asperity. ,the asperities of polar weather. From Dictionary.com.
A wide commerce, while it had insensibly softened the asperities of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
What rounded off his natural asperities, and moulded up his virtues?. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics] Reference
They can soften sectional asperities and bring honorable compromises. From Wordnik.com. [The Right to See Everything Including Ourselves] Reference
It softens asperities, bridges chasms, draws together hands and hearts. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
You will suffer when you find so many asperities in a nature which, from. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
The natural character must be allowed to appear, freed of its angularities and asperities. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Just as she avoided the name of Tomkins, so she avoided the roughnesses, the asperities, the plainnesses of daily life. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
Three years had certainly not smoothed the asperities of his temper or his impatience with a less active intelligence than his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Empty House] Reference
Convention sat down in June, 1888, and from which they arose with asperities softened, differences harmonized and victory organized. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Peace and serenity reigned there, for Madame Récamier softened asperities and healed dissensions by the mere magnetism of her presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
Old and practically unchangeable, she is not lovable and she never has been, but near-by tenderness has softened some of her self-satisfied asperities. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Then, though there may exist some general rules to soften the asperities of marriage, there are none by which they can be accurately foreseen and evaded. From Wordnik.com. [A Marriage Contract] Reference
Our two characters have kept their natural asperities and defects, but the mutual comprehension of our souls has tightened the bond already close between us. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Mistress] Reference
Nevertheless, I trust my readers will follow me in this Alpine excursion, where I shall try to smooth the asperities of the road for them as much as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
Augustus, glad to welcome any diversion of the Colonel's and Mr. Wiggins's asperities, said the train was on time and the mail would be there in a few minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Also the manias and the asperities of a great soul which alarm and rebuff inferior souls should be shown; in doing this she would aid him in earning a few thousand francs. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
It is good to meet sometimes and exchange opinions; it softens the asperities of daily life, makes the young think reverently of the old, and the old charitably of the young. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Instead, he said, we "consider the acquiring of property to soften the asperities of sickness, of age, and for the benefit of our posterity, as one of the greatest incentives to industry.". From Wordnik.com. [Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840] Reference
When Olivia withdrew, Ellena retired to her turret, to soothe her spirits with a view of serene and majestic nature, a recourse which seldom failed to elevate her mind and soften the asperities of affliction. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian] Reference
Here the Italian interfered, and smoothed down the Vicomte's asperities. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference
Mrs. Gallilee might not object to waive her claims, until time has softened existing asperities. From Wordnik.com. [Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time] Reference
But time gradually wore away many of those asperities, and now few will deny that the position our. From Wordnik.com. [Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian] Reference
If wealth could remove the asperities from these as from material things, it might well be coveted. From Wordnik.com. [What Can She Do?] Reference
My present path, full as it is of asperities, is better than that into which I must enter when this is abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
Maine by one of my uncles, who lived for a time in an Old Dominion family, despite all the asperities of the War. From Wordnik.com. [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference
In the hope of softening these asperities Pitt and Grenville decided to send the Earl of Bute to Madrid in place of. From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
The channel, however, was encumbered with asperities, over which the river fretted and foamed with thundering impetuosity. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
European civilization, even where it does not modify the basis of character, effaces asperities, and moulds exterior forms. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Chopin] Reference
There was an ugly look of ill temper on his face, but he found Calvin Blount a hard man to approach with any masculine asperities. From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
At breakfast time, however, he attempted to soften the asperities of boy life between us, by putting two trout, instead of one, on my plate. From Wordnik.com. [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference
Its mountainous asperities supply me with images of desolation and seclusion, and its headlong streams lull me into temporary forgetfulness of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
This sweet procession on the walls, thanks be to lovely art, needs no keeping up with, merely asks to scatter joy and to soften the asperities of a too arduous day. From Wordnik.com. [The Tapestry Book] Reference
Bright dresses, bright eyes, bright sunshine, music, dancing, a life without care, and a climate without asperities, make up the sunny side of native life as pictured at Hilo. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
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