There was a misty look about the room, giving a curious softness to each table and chair and furnishing.

" She moved uneasily, and her beautiful face lost its softness.

Amy had caught her father's bold style, but added to it a delicate softness which he, from impatience, not want of ability, usually omitted.

More than once the point of Robin Hood's sword felt the softness of flesh, and presently the ground began to be sprinkled with bright red drops, albeit not one of them came from Robin's veins.

Kid or varnished leather should have the mud wiped off with a sponge charged with milk, which preserves its softness and polish.

A foreign writer declares that the soldier's character exhibited a "feminine" softness, unfitting him for the conduct of affairs of moment.

To this account it may be added, that from the year 1762 ministers, who were in the connection of John Wesley, began to be settled in America, and that as these were friends to the oppressed Africans also, so they contributed in their turn[A] to promote a softness of feeling towards them among those of their own persuasion.

I am but too sensible, through your means, that the company of men, wants a certain softness to recommend it, and that of women wants everything else.

The cheerful sounds spread themselves through the ship like the flavor of some rare perfume, bringing softness of heart through a thousand tender memories.

The Duchess felt such wrath and despitefulness at this, thatwithout any leasingshe rose from the table, and making pretence of sudden sickness, went to lie upon her bed, where she found little softness.

I noticed the softness and glossiness of my dark hair that fell in waves over my temples, making my forehead appear whiter than it really was.

Ben Davis watched her through eyes over which had come an unfamiliar softness.

From hard thoughts of other days Kate could see her drawn to that dayits softness and sunshine, its breath of the river and breath of the trees.

Had any one told her it were possible to give her child to any but a gentleman, she would have wondered at the want of feeling that could devote the softness of Jane or Emily, to the association with rudeness or vulgarity.

They meet officers in society; they humour and flatter them; they display a melting softness of sympathy and interest.

JOHN Excellent lady, Whose suit hath drawn this softness from my eyes, Not the world's scorn, nor falling off of friends Could ever do.

Meanwhile, Julian had left the castle grounds and walked nervously through the forest, enjoying the velvety softness of the grass and the balminess of the air.

His every look was peaceful, and expressed The softness of the lover in the beast.

Torrey wiped his glasses, put them on, wiped them again, hung them on the hook attached to the lapel of his waistcoat, put them on, studied the paper, then said hesitatingly: "As one of your oldest friends, Hiram, and in view of the surprising nature of thethe" "I do not wish to discuss it," interrupted Hiram, with that gruff finality of manner which he always used to hide his softness, and which deceived everyone, often even his wife.

'He has never asked you, and never will.' Mr. Lott glared and glowered, but, with all that, had something in his face which hinted softness.

To lengthen the coat of this working breed they might very well have had recourse to a cross with the prick-eared Skye, and to eliminate the wiry texture of the hair a further cross with the Maltese dog would impart softness and silkiness without reducing the length.

"Thou enterest on new and serious duties, child, but the spirit and purity of an angel, a meekness that does not depress, and a character whose force rather relieves than injures the softness of thy sex, can temper the ills of this fickle world, and thou may'st justly hope to see a fair portion of that felicity which thy young imagination pictures in such golden colors.

The mother and sisters, who knew the softness of Maria's disposition,and who had been more angry than their sister with the man who had been wicked enough to carry away Thomson's 'Seasons' in his portmanteau without marrying the girl who had put it there,would not agree to this.

They are not lovely eyes; they lack softness and languor and tractability; their expression changes too often, and they mirror too much intelligence for loveliness, but they never will be old eyes, and they never will cease to look.

Dreams had come to her, vague, delicious bits of fancy which had whispered in her ear and passed, leaving a new softness in her eyes, a new flush upon her cheek.