softness

• Hers was a nature in which softness would ever prevail;--softness, and that tenderness of heart, always leaning, and sometimes almost crouching, of which a mild eye is the outward sign. —  Orley Farm
• Mr. Dean has no such softness, and enters the nursery with the tread and gaiety of an ogre. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• That this softness was not altogether trustworthy, however, the Professor felt sure, for he had seen, at moments, when something had deeply stirred her, expressions anything but soft come into her face. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• Marked by a peculiar softness, and an unusual clearness in its pale washes, rose madder affords the most perfect carnation tints known. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• His sparkling Johannisberger and high-class sparkling moselle from Rheingau and Moselle wines of superior vintages are of delicate flavour and great softness, and are frequently shipped without any liqueur whatever. —  Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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