Wine can mollify stones; then that wine turns into acidity, acerbity, misanthropy, a hatred of my interrupters (God bless 'em!

Their work showed a growing seriousness and acerbity.

The benevolence and public spirit of that long life had only been equaled by its acerbity.

CHAPTER XV "Be Bold, Be Bold" Lord Vernon, no doubt, would have spoken with less acerbity but for the fact that his nerves were jangling badly.

he inquired, somewhat miffed at her acerbity.

" "Hm! Seth Quin 's a fool, 'n' always wuz," replied the cook, with a seemingly uncalled-for acerbity of tone.

Indeed, on no subject is there more disagreement; there is no subject which provokes more bitter and hostile comments; there is no subject on which both men and women wrangle with more acerbity, even when they are virtually agreed,for the instincts of good women are really in accord with the profoundest experience and reason of men.

"Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.

The judges and officers of the court were almost entirely without insignia of office, and the counsel employed, I thought, evinced much tact in their proceedings, especially in the cross-examination of witnesses, although they manifested great acerbity of feeling towards each other, and their acrimonious remarks would not, I imagine, have been allowed to pass without remonstrance in an English court of justice.

Bitterness N. bitterness, acridness^, acridity, acrimony; caustic, alkali; acerbity; gall, wormwood; bitters, astringent bitters.

Unsavoriness N. unsavoriness &c adj.; amaritude^; acrimony, acridity (bitterness) 392.2; roughness &c (sour) 397; acerbity, austerity; gall and wormwood, rue, quassia^, aloes; marah^; sickener^. V. be unpalatable &c adj.; sicken, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the stomach.

"I felt it my duty to do so," said that lady, with acerbity.

The author of the Aetna has learned all too well this scholastic method, and his acerbity usually turns the reader away before he has reached the central theme.

In spite of the acerbity of Mr. Tyrrel's feelings, it is probable, however, he did some justice to his rival.

" Gisèle exhorted him not to be a fool, but she spoke without acerbity, and, speaking, she squeezed his hand.

My aunt caught the drift of my thoughts and replied with as much acerbity as before: "There is nothing whatever the matter with her.

No gall, no acerbity, no hypercriticism.

As an orator M. Perier was energetic and impassioned: the natural warmth of his temper, added to the irritability produced by illness, frequently imparted a brusque acerbity to his style, which injured both the oratorical and moral effect of his eloquence; but his reasoning was forcible, and his manner commanding and effective.

He must be forgiven if he seemed to speak with unusual acerbity.

"I was thinking of her losing me," replied Mr. Chalk, with a touch of acerbity.

But my mother-in-law's acerbity was softened by her weakness.

Although his mother tried hard she could not keep the acerbity out of her tones as she turned to me.

Even Mother Graham's acerbity was softened by the suffering I underwent in the first day or two following the accident, although I soon discovered that she was actually jealous because Lillian and not she was nursing me.

" "I pray you, my son," she retorted with unusual acerbity, "do you want a million or do you not?"

These will be made by me through no acerbity of feelingI have had no cause to cherish or indulge unkind feelings toward anybut my conduct will be regulated by a profound sense of what is due to the country and its institutions; nor shall I neglect to apply the same unbending rule to those of my own appointment.