Her voice had the warm little roughness of a thrush's, which sings through a throat that is loosely strung with wires of soft gold.

he exclaimed, with sudden roughness.

Why to the baseness of his parentage Refer him with such cruel roughness, only Because he had a weak hour and forgot himself?

The apparent roughness is that they do not concern themselves with conserving the coronary cushion, and hesitate but little in cutting portions of it bodily away.

I confessed to being an ancient Wanderer, but not an Ancient Mariner, and expressed disapprobation of the deplorable roughness of the California Albatross, a brute of a birda feathered ruffian that ought to be shot.

Women are, perhaps, more inclined than men to forgive external roughness in consideration of the great charm of deep tenderness in a thoroughly masculine nature.

[The omission of Marston here is remarkable, because no satirist exhibits this extraordinary roughness of versification more glaringly.

Our hero, though he had worn moleskin trousers and jersey shirts, and had worked down a pit twelve hours a-day with a pickaxe, had never reconciled himself to female roughnesses.

It seemed to her, to the woman in her, the fitting roughness of the colossal statue.

That little golden roughness in her voice seemed to grate on my bared heart.

There was an honest roughness about the large stones, inclosing a small room called the carpenter's shop, which I could not find it in my heart to doubt.

A little injudicious roughness of handling, and that thready, flickering pulse might stop for ever; and yet it was almost certain that if he were not speedily aroused, his stupor would gradually deepen until it shaded off imperceptibly into death.

Yet, as to its art and imagery, the same effects are there, differing only in a more vigorous method, an intentional roughness, from the individual early verse.

Fry of a nice pale brown, and be careful not to take off the light roughness of the crumbs, or their beauty will be spoiled.

he exclaimed with good-natured roughness, "that isn't any way to look at matters; especially when we both depend on sensations for making our living.

" "For death it will assuredly be, sir, if he be jolted and shaken along the Portsdown roadsyea, I question whether you would get him to Oakwood alive," said Brent, with naval roughness.

Consequently, this element may, at the will of the speaker, have more or lesslittle or nothing, or even very muchof that peculiar roughness, jar, or whur, which is commonly said to constitute the sound.

At first, the skin is smooth, but, as the disease advances, perceptible roughness is apparent, from the elevation of the rash, or, more properly, the pores of the skin.

The sensible qualities of Anserina promise no great virtue of any kind, for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughness, from whence it was thought to be entitled to a place among the milder corroborants.

Such was the discord, which did first disperse Form, order, beauty, through the universe; While dryness moisture, coldness heat resists, All that we have, and that we are, subsists; While the steep, horrid roughness of the wood Strives with the gentle calmness of the flood, 210 Such huge extremes when Nature doth unite, Wonder from thence results, from thence delight.

These airy textures, in which light and shadow can so beautifully shift, subdue roughnesses of the skin and harshness in lines.

Johnson, it seems, thought that Garrick should have courted him more, and perhaps sent the plays to his house; whereas Garrick, knowing that Johnson treated books with a roughness ill-suited to their constitution, thought that he had done quite enough by asking Johnson to come to his library.

Taking the Royal Academy group first, the absolute roughness of the groundwork supplies an admirable background to the figures, which seem to emerge from it as though the whole of them were there, ready to be disentangled.

Now you set in to bawl and I'll give ye somethin' to bawl forhear me?" The old man was skilful with hurts, but he was using such unnecessary roughness in this case as set the plucky little chap to sobbing, and, just as Johnnie entered the room, got him heavy-handed punishment for it.

Had I snatched that ribbon, there would have been tears and a mad outcry at my brutal roughness.