Sample Sentences forasperity (auto-selected)
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"This isn't about Magnus," said Jocelyn with asperity.† (source)
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But he was set right there by Mrs. Bennet, who assured him with some asperity that they were very well able to keep a good cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.† (source)
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Soft scene, daring demonstration, I would not have; and I stood in peril of both: a weapon of defence must be prepared — I whetted my tongue: as he reached me, I asked with asperity, "whom he was going to marry now?"† (source)
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"Hold thy tongue, naughty child!" answered her mother, with an asperity that she had never permitted to herself before.† (source)
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'I listen, Ron,' said Hermione, with a touch of asperity.† (source)
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ANNIE [WITH SOME ASPERITY]: Well, if there was a key in here, I wouldn't be in here.† (source)
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'You?' they replied with asperity.† (source)
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The only difficulty in proceeding lay in not sliding too fast down an incline of about forty-five degrees; happily certain asperities and a few blisterings here and there formed steps, and we descended, letting our baggage slip before us from the end of a long rope.† (source)
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A semiliterate private in the 54th Pennsylvania, whose wife had rebuked him for thinking more of the Union than of her and the children, wrote to her with some asperity that "if the rebels would invade the north whad whoud become of you and my children ...thay woud be perfeck slaves thay whoud be triede like a doge ...and hour property wodden be worth a cent for thay wold take it to pay thair dates."† (source)
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That humid and congenial atmosphere which commonly adorned the view, veiling its harshness, and softening its asperities, had disappeared, the northern air poured across the waste of water so harsh and unmingled, that nothing was left to be conjectured by the eye, or fashioned by the fancy.† (source)
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"Allow me to point out, my man," the police officer rejoined with asperity, "that just now it's you who're troubling the peace of others."† (source)
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"—yet are they clearly wholesome, the more especially when one doth assuage the asperities of their nature by admixture of the tranquilizing juice of the wayward cabbage—" The wild light of terror began to glow in these men's eyes, and one of them muttered, "These be errors, every one—God hath surely smitten the mind of this farmer."† (source)
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It is worthy of remark, as a curious physical instance of the efficacy of a sudden surprise in counteracting the effects of extreme fear, that her voice had quite recovered all its official asperity.† (source)
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It was fortunate for her that the possession of money occasioned him so much employment next day in the way of eating and drinking; and withal had so beneficial an effect in smoothing down the asperities of his temper; that he had neither time nor inclination to be very critical upon her behaviour and deportment.† (source)
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He treated almost everybody on our block with a most uncharitable asperity and neither they, nor, of course, their children were slow to reciprocate.† (source)
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This encounter was so highly agreeable to Miss Fanny, and gave her so much to think of with triumph afterwards, that it softened her asperities exceedingly.† (source)
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