11510 examples of softer in sentences

I think I've come out of this awful business a good deal softer than I went in.

Beaumaroy sat quite still, the expression in his eyes unaltered, or, if altered at all, it grew softer, as though with pity or affection.

She had put on the fur cloak in which she had walked to the cottagethe fire was out and the room cold; framed in the furs, the outline of her face looked softer.

Here let me take the triumphs that softer conquests yield!

His powers of mind shown in the attainment of greater honours against the ablest candidates, than those of any graduate on record at Cambridge, have sufficiently established his fame on the spot where it was acquired; while his softer qualities live in the recollection of friends, who loved him too well to envy his superiority."

In its steam immersed, 5 The lamps of heaven flash with a softer light; All baser things pant with life's sacred thirst, Diffuse themselves, and spend in love's delight

35. What softer voice is hushed over the dead?

What softer voice is hushed over the dead?

"One seldom sees a finer or a softer outline on the shores of the Mediterranean itself.

Behold, four kings in majesty revered, With hoary whiskers and a forky beard; And four fair queens whose hands sustain a flower, Th' expressive emblem of their softer power; Four knaves in garbs succinct, a trusty band, Caps on their heads, and halberts in their hand; And parti-coloured troops, a shining train, Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain.

As we were watching them, Eveena, wrapped in a cloak of fur not a little resembling that of the silver fox, but far softer, stole her hand into mine and whispered a request that I would lend her the instrument I was using.

But there were no tracks in the softer soil, no trodden-down grass.

If it were necessary to engrave another fine line in old Ben's forehead in order to add a softer tint to Gloria's rose petals, she was sincerely sorry for Ben, but the desirable rose tints were selected with none the less steady hand.

140 Yet are thy softer arts with power indued To soothe and cheer the poor man's solitude.

On as we move a softer prospect opes, Calm huts, and lawns between, and sylvan slopes.

Florence Nightingale, too, might have been a softer and more human person.

It has, indeed, my lords, been mentioned by a noble lord, in much softer language, as a method only of making an inquiry possible.

Consider, Sir; if you are to melt iron, you cannot line your pot with brass, because it is softer than iron, and would melt sooner; nor with iron, for though malleable iron is harder than cast iron, yet it would not do; but a paste of burnt-bones will not melt.'

In my present state, I am desirous to make a struggle for a little longer life, and hope to obtain some help from a softer climate.

Her great dark eyes were softer than her mother's, and her face and contour were perfections of beauty.

Do you understand one single word of what I have been saying?" The burning color in her face had faded slowly while he was speaking; her lifted eyes grew softer, serious, as he ended impetuously.

The Peace River, or woodland, bison has lately been separated as a sub-species (B. bison athabascae), distinguished from the southern and better known form by superior size, a wider forehead, longer, more slender and incurved horns, and by a thicker and softer coat, which is also darker in color.

Green is gayer, but brown softer.

Others employ softer means of corruption; resort to the wine-shops of Belleville, where they make themselves agreeable in every way, and soon succeed in entering into friendly conversation with some of the least ferocious among the Federals of the place.

Battling with the elements upon the bleak shores of New England contributed, no doubt, to the gray and chastened spirits that these grim folks had won for themselves; spirits that colored and sometimes seeded swiftly under the softer skies of California.

11510 examples of  softer  in sentences