"I asked you, Whittam, whether there had been any breaches of conduct," retorted the officer with some asperity.

I will teach laborious industry to look without envy and without asperity upon those above them.

Disappointment and misfortune are calculated to inspire asperity into the gentlest heart.

But though misfortune had taught him asperity upon certain subjects, it had not corrupted his manners, debauched his integrity, or narrowed his heart.

It does not appear that he kept his living till the general ejection of the nonconformists; and it is not unlikely that the asperity of his carriage, and the known virulence of his temper, might have raised him enemies, who were willing to make him feel the effects of persecution, which he had so furiously incited against others; but of this incident of his life there is no particular account.

The others become friends to infidelity only by unskilful hostility; men of rigid orthodoxy, cautious conversation, and religious asperity.

One day when he had treated him with too much asperity.

Mrs. Sykes told her, adding with asperity that these were fine goings-on, and that they'd all be late for the wedding if they didn't hurry up.

" "Speak for yourself, Georgina," said her sister, with asperity.

** Here's a letter of courtship, my dear!and let me subjoin to it, that if now, or hereafter, I should treat this hideous lover, who is so free with me to my mother, with asperity, and you should be disgusted at it, I shall think you don't give me that preference in your love which you have in mine.

In every line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery.

Jane demanded in a tone of asperity.

Fairfax had not the courage to oppose what, in his own judgment, he disapproved; the petitions were laid before an assembly of officers; and the result of their deliberation was a remonstrance[b] of enormous length, which, in a tone of menace and asperity, proclaimed the whole plan of the reformers.

'Your father was never late for his meals,' the grandmother put in with asperity.

Her interest and her policy are, when changes are inevitable and necessary, to assist so that these changes, if possible, may be accomplished without war, or, if war occurs, that its duration and asperity may be lessened.

His melancholy end, too, disarms censure of its asperity.

"I have notand trust I never will," he replied, with a touch of asperity; "but I feel that Fred has shown very little consideration for his parents.

" "There's some mistake," objected Pleindeaux with professional asperity, at the same time flashing a wrathful look at Lloyd that said plainly: "You see what you have done!

As a sadly disparaging opinion had been quoted, at p. 40., from Lord Dartmouth, I hope you will allow the following remarks on the testimony of that nobleman to appear in your columns: "No person has contradicted Burnet more frequently, or with more asperity, than Dartmouth.

Of the society of this excellent woman, who had devoted herself since his return to dull the edge of political asperity, and to control the capricious temper of her mother, Marlborough was likewise deprived.

[ROGERS obeys with some asperity of mien.

He remained silent a moment from astonishment, and then said with asperity "Your offence is one of the most dangerous possible.

The trouble with them is that they are just a little too good, and when attacked defend themselves with asperity.

It is in the case of women wage earners that these laws bear the peculiar asperity.

“Certainly not,” I said with asperity; for I am not a person to inaugurate a dinner hour one day and change it the next.