In his harshest tones he rapped out at the Sergeant, "My knife!

"The Linnet must sail, or I'll find another master," said his father in his harshest voice.

His harshest tones in this part came steeped and dulcified in good humour.

His harshest tones in this part came steeped and dulcified in good humour.

We accordingly struck for the gorge out of which this stream came, and succeeded in penetrating for three miles up a very rocky gully, filled with some of the harshest triodia we had yet encountered, and had to halt for the night in a narrow pass, where there was scarcely room to tie up our horses.

Sometimes the harshest measures will most speedily effect the end.

The people of the North, no less than the people of the South, feel that Lee was truly great; and the harshest critic has been able to find nothing to detract from this view of him.

You have but too well justified their harshest censures by every part of your conduct.

Rome was in such a state as to require the harshest applications, and the despotic severity of Sixtus did much to restore decency and security to life.

The Marchese, for so he had been created, was not a whit more virtuous than the men of his day, but the sensuous are always the harshest judges of their kind!

But lest with noise ye wake, not lull, Her dreaming fancy, ye must cull Such only as shall soothe the mind And leave the harshest all behind.

To some who swept them it gave out tender and touching melody, to others its harshest and saddest discords.

But it is Georgia, the alma genetrix of the chain-gang, which merits the questionable distinction of having the harshest set of color laws.

" Miss Jennings gave vent to one of her harshest laughs.

She had observed that it was from those who had never sailed stormy waters came the quickest and harshest judgments on bad seamanship in heavy seas.

The Director assumed his harshest tone, and asked the cause of the altercation.

Then followed its harshest laugh of scorn.

His uncle either insulted him with the harshest kind of words or coaxed him with promises of safety.

Here, as well as in Serbia proper, northern Macedonia (known after the removal northwards of the political centre, in the fourteenth century, as Old Serbia), Bosnia, and Hercegovina, the Turkish rule was firmest, but not harshest, during the first half of the sixteenth century, when the power of the Ottoman Empire was at its height.

Sometimes I am happy enough to think the one; sometimesI think the other' 'It has never struck you,' she said, speaking with her head high, and in her harshest and most scornful tone, 'that I may do neither the one nor the other, but be pleased to kill my time with yousince I must stay here until my lawyer has done his business?' 'Oh!' said Soane, staring helplessly at the angry beauty, 'if that be all' 'That is all!'

I see with pain that it will be indispensable to put in practice the most violent and the harshest measures."

Why should we not take the harshest whim of chance for an excellent jest and a most frolicsome caprice, since we, like our love, are immortal?

To Hebel belongs the merit of having bent one of the harshest of German dialects to the uses of poetry.

Do you know that in the gradual passage from maturity to helplessness the harshest characters sometimes have a period in which they are gentle and placid as young children?

General Cox dropped in for an afternoon call and I scanned eagerly his scholarly face and figure, well knit through the harshest experiences in camp and battle.