a voice, deliberate and of peculiar softness, said behind her.

I must look to you to teach me how discipline may be softened to suit feminine softness, and what milder sanction may replace the noose and the stick of the ferash" (Persian executioner).

It was evident that she despised herself for that one touch of womanly softness which had made her as ready to fall in love with her first wooer as any peasant girl in Grasmere Vale.

Still, suspicions of fat, of unwonted softness, had begun to invade those lines.

To this day all distant bells come to my ears with a pleasing softness, as though they had been cast in a quieter world.

When sorrow weeps o'er virtue's sacred dust, Then tears become us, and our grief is just; Such cause had she to weep who gratefully pays This last sad tribute of her love and praise, Who mourns a sister and a friend combined, Where female softness met a manly mind: Mourns, but not murmurssighs, but not despairs Feels for her loss, but as a Christian bears. COLBOURNE.

The banks still flat, until the last part of the trip, when we approached some hills on the left, not very lofty, but clearly defined, and with a kind of dreamy softness about them, which reminded one of Egypt.

" He spoke with a sudden softness of tone that touched Robert, and there could be no doubt that his meaning was good.

The Duchess felt such wrath and despitefulness at this, thatwithout any leasingshe rose from the table, and making pretence of sudden sickness, went to lie upon her bed, where she found little softness.

Their unmodulated voices grated on his ear, in contrast with the liquid softness of Rosabella's tones, and the merry, musical tinkling of Floracita's prattle.

Amy had caught her father's bold style, but added to it a delicate softness which he, from impatience, not want of ability, usually omitted.

On beds of silken softness you will long for the sleep-song of whispering leaves above your head, and the smell of a couch of balsam boughs.

Indeed, I cannot doubt that if one saw the West Front reproduced now, the connoisseurs, who praise it so blandly in its mellow softness, would overwhelm it with disapproval and stern criticism.

There was a misty look about the room, giving a curious softness to each table and chair and furnishing.

"One thing I know quite well, though, is unchanging," she continued, her face losing all the gentle softness which a moment before he had found so fascinating, so reminiscent of those sad, sleepy-eyed women immortalised by the masters of the Renaissance.

In the voice of the rector, there was an unusual softness and tremor that his people attributed to the feelings of a father about to witness the first efforts of an only child, but which in reality were owing to another and a deeper cause.

" "I hope you find your friend," remarked Riley, with his deceptive softness of tone.

"He ain't forgot the licking I gave him," thought Billy vaingloriously, and hid a smile in the delectable softness of a wedge of cake with some kind of creamy filling.

Oh thou divinest softness!

The day had been sultry, and the moon rose slowly over the mounds of Maiden Bower, once the site of the noble mansion of the Percys, now destroyed and desolate; and fell in dreary softness on tower and wood, illumining the sable firs of Newby Park, and throwing another lustre on the gaudy "gowans" that decked the adjacent meadow.

A female softness, with a manly mind: A daughter duteous, and a sister kind:

His exotick softness will shrink at the coarseness of vulgar felicity, like a plant transplanted to northern nurseries, from the dews and sunshine of the tropical regions.

Vasari tells us "Giorgione had seen certain works from the hand of Leonardo, which were painted with extraordinary softness, and thrown into powerful relief, as is said, by extreme darkness of the shadows, a manner which pleased him so much that he ever after continued to imitate it, and in oil painting approached very closely to the excellence of his model."

Having "a hesitating softness, fatal to a great enterprise," he betrayed the conspiracy to the senate.

MANUFACTURES.The distinction between hair and wool is rather arbitrary than natural, consisting in the greater or less degrees of fineness, softness and pliability of the fibres.