unsoothing

  The sun curls away leaving only the stiff fingers of cold nights and loneliness to pass their unsoothing paths along your skin.

Weld (St. Petersburg Blues) Andrew Trent 2010

There's just something so unsoothing about the thought of retiring to bed with my Kindle to read...

Books read 2009

There's just something so unsoothing about the thought of retiring to bed with my Kindle to read...

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Perhaps he was aware of the fact, and because he knew that my damnation is inevitable his unsoothing preliminary was merely human.

My Tropic Isle 2003

In his unsoothing slumber he talked aloud, frequently wakening Amy; generally he seemed to be holding a dialogue with someone who had imposed an intolerable task upon him; he protested passionately, appealed, argued in the strangest way about the injustice of what was demanded.

New Grub Street 2003

He will find a lot of grubby and unsoothing stretches too, extensive in places, and even in the pleasant streams troubles exist that are invisible to the eye.

The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.

Perhaps he was aware of the fact, and because he knew that my damnation is inevitable his unsoothing preliminary was merely human.

My Tropic Isle 1887

She unveiled her eyes to natural history, and did not find flower or butterfly unsoothing.

Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Thus both weeping addressed the king with soothing words; but heard an unsoothing reply: "If indeed ye be the sons of warlike Antimachus, who once in an assembly of the Trojans, ordered that they should there put to death Menelaus, coming as an ambassador along with godlike Ulysses, and not send him back to the Greeks -- now surely shall ye pay the penalty of the unmerited insolence of your father."

The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840

While ill, he felt how unsoothing were the kindest looks and tones of strangers.

Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834