Both Uses of
asperity
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Mr Nickleby looked very indignant at the handmaid on being thus corrected, and demanded with much asperity what she meant; which she was about to state, when a female voice proceeding from a perpendicular staircase at the end of the passage, inquired who was wanted.†
Chpt 3 *
- Perhaps something of what he thought was expressed in his countenance, for the sick man, turning towards him with great asperity, demanded to know if he waited for a receipt.†
Chpt 46
Definition:
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(asperity) harshness of manner