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Sentences starting with softened

Softened by affectionate weakness and no longer able to resist the impulse to see his little Belita happy, he whispered: "Poor thing, poor young lovers! [10]
Softened as it was by affectionate words, and all the loving messages of the season, it was like a slap in the face to Margaret. [4]
Softened by memories of Princess Mary he began to pray as he had not done for a long time. [2]

Sentences ending with softened

Kaid's face had set into fierce resolution, but as he took the amulet his eyes softened. [11]
Her features were large, indeed, yet stanch and softened. [9]
Its effect upon Howard was peculiar --he was at once irritated, disarmed, and softened. [9]
He began to be amused and softened. [4]
The wretched mother again opened her heart to Barbara and, when she still resisted her lamentations and entreaties, threw herself on her knees and sobbing besought her to let her heart be softened. [10]
Her look softened. [9]
Her look softened. [11]
Al'mah's eyes softened. [11]

Short sentences using softened

B. softened me much. [14]
She softened, changed at once. [11]

Sentences containing softened two or more times

And presently the sound lulled, and softened and softened, until it was as the murmur of a distant swarm of bees. [6]

More example sentences with the word softened in them

Indeed, this adaptable woman soon found that she had become an object of more than usual interest, by her latest exploit, in the circles in which she moved, and her softened manner and edifying conversation showed that she appreciated her position. [4]
Once, when Paulina, with tears in her eyes had spoken to her of her lost daughter, Arsinoe had been softened and following the impulse of her heart, had confided to her that she loved Pollux the sculptor and hoped to be his wife. [10]
His eyes, softened, with supreme eloquence cried out that she, was his, forever and forever. [9]
In the open window came the fresh morning breeze, and only the softened sounds of the life outside. [4]
He asked himself why Byng had not been content to buy one of the great mansions which could always be had in London for a price, where time had softened all the outlines, had given that subdued harmony in architecture which only belongs to age. [11]
It softened his whole otherwise rigid aspect. [6]
The country press, which had far and wide printed the interesting story, softened it in accordance with the later development. [4]
Her heart hardened whenever she thought of the woman, but softened again when she thought of Ba'tiste, who had to suffer for the deed of a brother in "purgatore. [11]
In the morning, when Margaret looked from the windows of the hotel, the sky was gray and yielding, and all the outlines of the looming buildings were softened in the hazy air. [4]
But he softened when he looked at the accounts and saw that I had actually booked the unparalleled number of thirty-three new subscribers, and had the vegetables to show for it, cordwood, cabbage, beans, and unsalable turnips enough to run the family for two dears! [5]
Miss Forsythe's pride was touched, and the remark was not softened to her by the, air of half banter with which the sentence concluded. [4]
Some said it was the softened climate, but others believed it was owing to the habit of keeping their ears open whenever they were walking through the grass or in the woods. [6]
That dying pillow was softened by the sweetest domestic affection; and as he lay down to the sleep which the Lord giveth his beloved, his face was as the face of an angel, and his smile seemed to give a glimpse of the opening heavens. [6]
The rude symbolism was softened and toned to an almost poetical refinement, and gave to the harmless revels a touch of Arcady. [11]
To the great vexation of her father who, after her mother's death, in an hour when his heart was softened, had promised that he would never impose any constraint upon her in the choice of a husband, she had hitherto rejected every suitor. [10]
We look back upon it with softened memory, and already see it again in the light of history. [4]
Then they softened until they became again the only feature that was left of Sarah Temple. [9]
Then, seeing how troubled he was over his violated trust, she softened at once, and was all goodness and gentleness toward him. [5]
She was softened, touched; she felt, too, a responsive thrill to such a desire as his. [9]
When he came to that scene in the Fort, the three men sitting, targets for his bullets,--he softened the details greatly. [11]
If you want to get his ways softened down and his manners reformed, I am with you and ready to help, but it isn't fair to get him discharged without giving him a chance. [5]
The memory of them is that of a figure tall and lithe, a little more rounded than of yore, and a chiselled face softened by a power that is one of the world's mysteries. [9]
To the right, the swelling mountains of the Sierra Nevada, robbed of their ruggedness and softened into a fairy land, with their snowy summits gleaming like silver clouds against the deep blue sky. [4]
Poor fellow," and the doctor's voice softened, "he'll kill himself with his ascetic notions. [4]
But the consciousness that her look betrayed this softened her at once towards Mr. Meigs, and decidedly improved his chances for the evening. [4]
Is it your subtle persuasions that have softened his manners and beguiled him to listen to proposals? [5]
At the top stood 'tough, underdone, overdue tripe, garnished with garlic;' half-way down the bill stood 'young cat; old cat; scrambled cat;' at the bottom stood 'sailor-boots, softened with tallow--served raw. [5]
The roar was still dominant, but far off and softened, and did not crush the ear. [4]
Prince Andrew's last stay at Bogucharovo, when he introduced hospitals and schools and reduced the quitrent the peasants had to pay, had not softened their disposition but had on the contrary strengthened in them the traits of character the old prince called boorishness. [2]
These signs of sorrow softened the old man's indignation. [10]
Then her eyes softened, and, "All your old courage," she added. [11]
Then suddenly it softened, and he said to the lad: "We will go together, Wingo. [11]
The stone image softened, a shade. [5]
I believe you're softened toward most, perhaps all, my people except--But when I speak of your purpose, your hate, your guns, I have only him in mind. [13]
He might have softened the growing resentment by a change of manner, but his intellectual arrogance had control of him for the moment; and he said to himself that he had mastered the House before, and he would do so now. [11]
Prosperity had not softened him; it had given him an arrogance unduly emphasised by a reputation for rigid virtue and honesty. [11]
The road was so softened that, in spite of the light which fell on the ground, it was impossible to avoid the pools and muddy places. [10]
There was a silent space while the two young ladies regarded him, softened by his haggard and dishevelled aspect, and perplexed by his attitude. [9]
You think that she, who has a thousand ladies of a kingdom at her call, of the best and most beautiful--and even," his voice softened, "though you are more beautiful than all, that beauty would soften her towards you? [11]
Under their wistful shadow he softened, and in the softening felt himself grow a sadder, a wiser, and a better man. [13]
Margaret Brice," he said, "if I had had such a mother as you, I would have been softened then. [9]
In the darkened room, the din of yesterday was going on again: a little sobered and softened down, perhaps, but only a very little, if at all. [12]
It seemed to Pierre that this comet fully responded to what was passing in his own softened and uplifted soul, now blossoming into a new life. [2]
And inasmuch as on that day his whole soul was filled with love, his hardness was softened, and how gladly and thankfully my heart beat when I beheld him give his hand to the man who had endured so much woe for my sake. [10]
Presently the song of the voyageurs grew less, the refrain softened and passed down the long line, and, as it were, from out of far mists came the muffled challenge: "Qui vive! [11]
Leaning against one of the timbers and half seated, with the softened roar of the city in his ears, the lights gleaming on the heights, the river flowing dark and silent, he began to be conscious of his situation. [4]
Again that perfume of hers caught his senses, and his look softened wonderfully. [11]
No weakening tremor of exultation softened his face as he looked upon the men by whose endurance he had been able to do this thing. [9]
At the close of a sunny day the western sky has a softened aspect: its color, we say, has warmth in it On such a day you may meet a caterpillar on the footpath, and turn out for him. [4]
The atmosphere was not too clear on the horizon for dreamy effects; all the headlands were softened and tinged with opalescent colors. [4]
England does not need you"--his voice and manner softened, he leaned towards Philip, the eyes almost closing as he peered into his face--"but you are needed by the House of Bercy. [11]
That day the mist softened its outline and blurred the trees which clustered about it. [9]
It was a mild winter day, with a haze in the atmosphere that softened all outlines and gave an enchanting appearance to the harbor shores. [4]
Mr. Hubbell brought March's removal, softened in the guise of a promotion. [8]
That tough old lion went away from there a good deal tamed and civilized--not to say softened and sweetened, for perhaps those expressions would hardly fit him. [5]
There was a light, luminous fog, which revealed just enough to excite the imagination, and refined every outline and softened every color. [4]
Sun of our life, thy quickening ray Sheds on our path the glow of day; Star of our hope, thy softened light Cheers the long watches of the night. [6]
Something in the last few moments' experience had loosened the puckered skin, softened the crabbed look in the face, and Philip had no longer doubt of his friendly intentions. [11]
How well I knew that half-imperious toss of the head, and the glance of those level, large gray eyes, softened instantly, on recognition, into the sweetest smile of welcome playing about the dimple and the expressive mouth! [4]
During the balmy Indian summer, when the sharper lines of nature are softened by the haze, some came to us from across the mountains to make up for the deserters. [9]
Distance clothed him in a purple gloom, and added a veil of shimmering mist that so softened his rugged features that we seemed to see him through a web of silver gauze. [5]
It seems as if the Creator had determined to show man, once for all, a landscape perfectly refined, you might almost say with the beauty of high-breeding, refined in outline, color, everything softened into loveliness, and yet touched with the wild quality of picturesqueness. [4]
Voban felt what I was about to do, and his face instantly softened, and his blood-shot eyes gave me a look of gratitude. [11]
The look on his face softened as he turned to her. [9]
Then we fed him a little, and by and by he seemed to comprehend the situation and a grateful light softened his eye. [5]
He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvitski and began to walk up and down before it. [2]
Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. [2]
I wonder, if he had come to the Villa Nardi and written on the roof, if the theological features of his epic would have been softened, and if he would not have received new suggestions for the adornment of the garden. [4]
His voice softened, he came down out of his clouds, and fell to prattling along so simply and so humanly, that he soon won the King's heart completely. [5]
There is no haze, but all outlines are softened in the silver light. [4]
Morgan le Fay hated him with her whole heart, and she never would have softened toward him. [5]
If Jonathan Edwards had lived long enough, I have no doubt his creed would have softened into a kindly, humanized belief. [6]
Besides this the general opinion of all who had known him previously was that he had greatly improved during these last five years, having softened and grown more manly, lost his former affectation, pride, and contemptuous irony, and acquired the serenity that comes with years. [2]
Not until, far from allowing herself to be softened, she, too, threatened him, did he attempt to escape, but both litters were in his way, and when he had successfully passed around them the gardener, suddenly emerging from the darkness, seized him. [10]
Then her hard face softened, and she looked upon the packed crowd in front of her and said, with gentleness: "We played together once, in long-agone days when we were innocent little creatures. [5]
Presently my father's face softened somewhat, and he said: "Go and try. [5]
His kind young eyes streaming with tears might have softened a rock; but the enraged candle-dealer misinterpreted his honest emotion, and he certainly would not have been allowed to go on so far had not rage and amazement kept her silent. [10]
That glittering, piercing eye was not to be softened by a few smooth words spoken in low tones, charged with the common sentiments which win their way to maidens' hearts. [6]
Sonya was softened, excited, and touched by all that had occurred that day, especially by the mysterious fulfillment she had just seen of her vision. [2]
As she glanced down at her ring, her eyes burned with a softened fire. [8]
Now, the sternest dogmas that ever came from a soul cramped or palsied by an obsolete creed become wonderfully softened in passing between the lips of a mother. [6]
This would not do, of course, and so the thrill passed off and the muscles softened again. [6]
The morning was delicious,--such a morning as never visits any place except an island; a bright, sparkling morning, with the exhilaration of the air softened by the sea. [4]
There is a decidedly heroic element in his courage, hardihood, and enthusiasm, softened to the modern observer's comprehension by the humorous contrast between his achievements and his estimate of them. [4]
The shutters were closed, and the intensity of the tropical glare without was softened and diffused by the slanting green slats. [9]
Every rent and chasm of time, every mouldering tint and weather-stain, is gone; the marble resumes its original whiteness; the long colonnades brighten in the moonbeams; the halls are illuminated with a softened radiance, we tread the enchanted palace of an Arabian tale. [4]
In public she carried herself with serenity, and showed no distress, nor any resentment--conduct which should have softened the feeling against her, but it did not. [5]
It was Sunday--a bright, clear, wintry afternoon--and as they traversed the village street, those who were walking in their path drew back to make way for them, and gave them a softened greeting. [12]
I can only beg of you, strive to understand, that your heart many be softened, that your suffering soul may be released. [9]
If nothing has been softened, nothing has been mutilated. [4]
I happened to be in his company once, when he spoke rather sternly about my leaving the Methodist Church; but when I spoke of the part Emerson had in it, he softened at once, and spoke with emotion of his great friend. [6]
Would her heart be hardened or softened by the experience? [4]
Jane was present at the meeting, and there was something about it which dimmed her sight and softened her toward this foe of her people. [13]
She seemed not ashamed to ask if Mrs. Leighton's price was inflexible, but gave way laughing when her father refused to have any bargaining, with a haughty self-respect which he softened to deference for Mrs. Leighton. [8]
His eyes, however, as they fell on Fielding's, softened in a peculiar way, and a troubled look flashed through them; for Fielding's face was drawn and cold, though the eyes were feverish, and a bright spot burned on his high cheek-bones. [11]
I bent her arm; it was as plastic as softened wax, and kept the place I gave it.--This will never do, though, and I sprinkled a few drops of water on her forehead. [6]
Dowered by sun and softened by a delicate haze like an exquisite veil of modesty, this youngest daughter of the isles clustered with her kinsfolk in the emerald archipelago between the great seas. [11]
Then Aleck softened and said: "Don't be impatient. [5]
His face softened, and he said, more gently, "I don't know. [4]
In this latitude, and by reason of the hills, the atmosphere is pure and elastic and stimulating, and it is softened by the presence of the sea. [4]

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