To live on the labors of a helot people blunts the finer sensibilities of men and women alike; when you can look unshrinkingly at the separation of husband and wife on the auction-block, when you can see innocent children taken from their mothers and sold into eternal separation, I think it is not unnatural in me to fear that a woman with my convictions would not be happy mated with a Southerner.

If it sharpens the wits and sensibilities in some directions, it blunts them in others.

People had long suspected Louis Bonaparte; but long-continued suspicion blunts the intellect and wears itself out by fruitless alarms.

Its fascination never slackens, and time never blunts the keen desire of self-gratification which it engenders, while the grip with which it fastens upon us is as fast in old age as in youth.

But monotony in the structure of sentences, monotony of cadence, monotony of climax, monotony anywhere, necessarily defeats the very aim and end of style; it calls attention to the manner; it blunts the sensibilities; it renders excellences odious.

It is in reality a mixed sensation, in which smell and taste are both concerned, as is shown by the common observation that one suffering from a cold in the head, which blunts his sense of smell, loses the proper flavor of his food.

Hence it is that the too frequent recurrence of objects of distress, at the same time that it blunts the imagination, renders the heart callous and obdurate.

It is amazing how the use of language blunts the faculties of man-that because vainglory finds no vent in words, creatures supplied with eyes have been unable to detect a fault so gross and obvious.

Habit blunts this effect only to a limited extent.

Time, however, which blunts the edge of the keenest misfortunes, seemed to restore him to his former self.

There is an excited feeling in an attacking body that stimulates the coldest, and blunts the thought of danger.

" "See here, you," said a blunt, biting, deep-chested voice at their side.

" Fifteen years beforeten years beforeshe would have died sooner than listen to a plan such as he proposed; but fifteen years of Rome blunts one's English sensibilities.

The sight of human suffering soon blunts the sensibilities of any one who lives with it, so that he is at last able to look upon it with no stronger feeling than that of helplessness.

Ney was sincere, honest, blunt even: so far from flattering, he often contradicted him on whose nod his fortunes depended.

According to these, it prevents dissension and dyspnoea, inflammation and insanity, saves the waste of tissue and of time, blunts the edge of grief and lightens pain.

Of course, there are poor in Turin, as everywhere else,except Japan, if we may credit travellers; but nowhere are my eyes saddened by the spectacle of that abject destitution which blunts, nay, destroys, the sense of self-respect.

We have to fight and do lifelong battle against the forces of darkness, and anything that turns the edge of reason blunts the surest and most potent of our weapons.

The commonplace objection made to the Chorus that it disturbs the illusion and blunts the edge of the feelings, is what constitutes its highest recommendation; for it is this blind force of the affections which the true artist deprecates this illusion is what he disdains to excite.

KNAPP-FISHER, WARTNABY & BLUNT, executor of the Estate of Edward Verrall Lucas.

Not only does this leave the majority no time for education, for learning, or for reflection; but by virtue of the strong antagonism between merely physical and intellectual qualities, much excessive bodily labour blunts the understanding and makes it heavy, clumsy, and awkward, and consequently incapable of grasping any other than perfectly simple and palpable matters.

'The cloud, which, intercepting the clear light, Hangs o'er thy eyes, and blunts thy mortal sight, I will remove' 160.

When the spicy breezes began to blow soft as those of Ceylon's isle over the river and every whiff talked Turkey, the population of Dunderbunk listened to the wooing and began to follow its several nosessnubs, beaks, blunts, sharps, piquants, dominants, fines, bulgies, and bifidson the way to the several households which those noses adorned or defaced.

The Wars, the Seas, and usurie undoe us, Takes off our minds, our edges, blunts our plough-shares.

He has got too fine an edge on his mindeverything blunts it!" "Do you remember Rose's song about him?" said Barthrop.