soul-subduing

Yet when I come to the parting I am painfully conscious that I have not done Oscar Wilde justice; that some fault or other in me has led me to dwell too much on his faults and failings and grudged praise to his soul-subduing charm and the incomparable sweetness and gaiety of his nature.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

I believe it to be an intuitive discernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clearness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.

Frankenstein 2003

Oh no! She was quietly wandering around searching for the Serpent, and when she found him she smiled upon him and he thought the world grew brighter; then she laughed and his subjugation was complete; and then the naughty creature, without waiting for an introduction, led him to the famous apple tree, and standing on her tip-toes, reached up her hands and said with a soul-subduing little pout:

Fair to Look Upon Mary Belle Freeley

Orpheus, playing on his lute, was greatly astonished to see frisking out of their holes, great numbers of _mice_, and descending from their woven habitations crowds of _spiders_, who formed a circle about him, while he continued breathing his soul-subduing instrument.

Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Thomas Hanly Ball

It was so simple, so mournful, so soul-subduing; -- many a bright eye dimmed with tears, and naught could be heard but the touching words of that little song, -- oh, so touching!

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

Here you see the lovely decorations, the most costly feast, and listen to the heart-thrilling, soul-subduing orchestra.

Russell H. Conwell Agnes Rush Burr

Doddridge -- all unite in the interpretation that Onesimus was, in the heaven-inspired and soul-subduing words of the loving apostle, commended to his master, not as a slave _merely_, but also as a Christian brother.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

Let us not heed these things! for -- light as is the task to traders in death's dark trappings; painful and soul-subduing are those withering details to the grieving and heart-struck mourner!

A Love Story A Bushman

"Auld Robin Gray" and "The Land o 'the Leal," and so got at last to that most soul-subduing of Scottish laments, "Lochaber No More."

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

Yet when I come to the parting I am painfully conscious that I have not done Oscar Wilde justice; that some fault or other in me has led me to dwell too much on his faults and failings and grudged praise to his soul-subduing charm and the incomparable sweetness and gaiety of his nature.

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916