Give three words that can be applied instead of harsh to a sound; three that can be applied instead of harsh to the voice; five that can be applied to one's treatment of others; five that can be applied to one's disposition or nature.

" This was spoken in a rather positive way, as if it were unanswerable; yet as there was nothing harsh in the reply, Mrs. Wilson continued, "Do you not think him attentive to Jane?" Pleasure sparkled in the still brilliant eyes of Lady Moseley, as she exclaimed "Do you think so?" "I do; and you will pardon me if I say improperly so.

I had to be harsh with you, or they would have suspected something and cut your throat.

Be it harsh as the swannery's clamour that shatters the hush of the lake, Be it dulcet as where Philomela holds darkling the poplar awake, 85 So melting her soul into music, you'd vow 'twas her passion, her own, She plainethher sister forgot, with the Daulian crime long-agone.

On the contrary, it was brought forward with a degree of diffidence, which, if it did not deserve the epithet of modesty, could incur nothing harsher than that of bashfulness.

He groweth pale-cheeked and careworn, harsh of speech and swift to anger.

The laugh broke hoarse and harsh from his throat.

X. Mr. Herbert Paul, in his brilliant "History of Modern England," gives a version of this occurrence, which, on the whole, is hardly less harsh towards Lord John.

7. Not to be was that Manhood!The death-bell is knelling The hinge of the death-vault creaks harsh on the ears How dismal, O Death, is the place of thy dwelling!

Your Shouter's too noisy for temperance talking, Your Come-outer too harsh for right temperate walking.

There is something harsh about Northernersthey haven't enough colour.

The señora knew well that words are never so harsh between the male of our species when their women are beside them.

A malformation of his foot made him peculiarly sensitive, and the unwise treatment of his mother, fond and harsh by turns, destroyed maternal authority.

His eyes were large, black and bold, and the gray locks above them curled short and harsh like the front of a bull.

But she would not relinquish her hold, only she turned and looked steadily at the young lad, whilst her voice rose firm and harsh above the loud patter of the rain and the moaning of the wind through the distant; trees.

So sweet is the delight of study, the more learning they have (as he that hath a dropsy, the more he drinks the thirstier he is) the more they covet to learn, and the last day is prioris discipulus; harsh at first learning is, radices amarcae, but fractus dulces, according to that of Isocrates, pleasant at last; the longer they live, the more they are enamoured with the Muses.