The President listened attentively, and with the expression, half sad and half droll, with which he softened the asperities of official life, said, humorously: "I wish by such simple means as courts-martial we could find out more such soldiers as this; we need all of that sort we can get."

With some little asperities in her constitution, which I have above hinted at, she was a steadfast, friendly being, and a fine old Christian.

It is related that, in 1832, while he was at Paris, an article was shown him in an American newspaper, purporting to be a criticism on one of his works, but reflecting with much asperity on his personal character.

R57514. APPRAISEMENTS AND ASPERITIES AS TO SOME CONTEMPORARY WRITERS, by Felix Emmanuel Schelling.

The Asperities of the Early British Reviewers XII.

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

"I'll manage all right," I replied, not quite rid of my asperity over their lack of decision about taking a passenger.

As the Hawaiian diplomatic correspondence about this was conducted with more asperity than tact, if peace were the purpose, it was a good sore place for the Japanese statesmen to rub, and they resent in the newspapers the facile and cheap pacification resulting from the influence of the United States.

Everything smacks of indiscipline, of disgust at the king's service, and of asperity towards one's self.

Really, gentlemen, when one hears of such things as these, it becomes a duty, perhaps, a little to soften that extreme asperity with which most men speak of murder.

The grief of the King was sincere and excessive, as well as that of the nation, and his affliction softened his character and mitigated his asperity against Marlborough, Shortly after the death of his queen, William made Marlborough governor of the Duke of Gloucester, then (1698) a very promising prince, in the tenth year of his age.

In cities, and yet more in courts, the minute discriminations which distinguish one from another are for the most part effaced, the peculiarities of temper and opinion are gradually worn away by promiscuous converse, as angular bodies and uneven surfaces lose their points and asperities by frequent attrition against one another, and approach by degrees to uniform rotundity.

"' 'When the rumour was strong that we should have a war, because the French would assist the Americans, he rebuked a friend with some asperity for supposing it, saying, "No, Sir, national faith is not yet sunk so low.

Fortune shifted her favors and her asperities from one camp to the other.