Again, they were sometimes unduly harsh, and more than one infant lost its life from the exposure the evictions brought about.

" "I hope your friend has not been unnecessarily harsh: severity is not the best way, always, of effecting repentance, and I feel certain that you, my young friend, can have been guilty of no offence that does not rather require gentle than stern reproof," said Mrs. Wilson.

His voice, always distressingly harsh, was now so awful that it was fascinating.

But even so lately as when my mother was a child young people were often exceedingly harsh with their parents, and she has told me how on one occasion she locked up her mother for several hours in the coal-cellar for playing a mouth-organ in the bathroom without permission.

And further, her mood had been so changed and uplifted by excitement and expectation that she could not be genuinely harsh.

The terms of peace appear immeasurably harsh and humiliating, while many of them seem to me impossible of performance.

To talk of the law and use threats in this atmosphere of serene domesticity seemed impossibly harsh.

The Conqueror, as we know, greatly enlarged the old "royal hunting ground" here in Hampshire when he made the New Forest, and that act of his which brought an immensely larger area than of old under a new and incredibly harsher forest law gradually produced a legend of devastation and depopulation here which, as I have already said, can no longer be accepted as true.

In a small room, however, or in a good light, the crude pinks and whites with which she had concealed her sallow cheeks became painfully harsh and artificial.

His style is boisterous and rough-hewn; his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill-sounding.

This simplification is supported by usage as extensive as the familiar use of the pronoun thou; and is also in accordance with the canons of criticism: "The first canon on this subject is, All words and phrases which are remarkably harsh and unharmonious, and not absolutely necessary, should be rejected."

Forgive me for these seemingly harsh words.

Only sometimes the thorough bass I contrive to guess at, from its being supereminently harsh and disagreeable.

She cannot always be beautiful, poor dear, and she is not invariably gracious, it is true; yet, on the whole, how much the atmosphere of office life has gained in amenity by the coming of the stenographer, the typewriter, and the telephone girl, not to speak of her frequent decorative value in a world that has hitherto been uncompromisingly harsh and unadorned!

[Variant 11: 1845. ... for no thought Uncharitable, no presumptuous rising Of hasty censure, modelled in the eclipse 1820. ... for no thought Undutifully harsh dwelt in his mind, No proud resentment cherished in the eclipse C.]

"Sir George Jessel was not only brutally harsh; he was also utterly unfair.

It suffers hypocrites gladly, because its criticism is poor, and it is wastefully harsh to frank unorthodoxy.

It is comparatively harsh and barren, and so defective and vague in its application that it even seems questionable whether nouns and verbs have number.