1 How cool the water was, how good to lie here in softness, like a child.
2 Hunger and hard labor, fear and constant strain, the terrors of war and the terrors of Reconstruction had taken away all warmth and youth and softness.
3 She did not know that her face had changed, that reverie had brought a softness to her face which Rhett had never seen before.
4 The touch of her hand, the moving softness of her look, thrilled a vulnerable fibre in Rosedale.
5 She curled on the couch a pallid softness in the twilight, and fought herself, and lost the battle.
6 She was weak, betrayed to a warm softness.
7 The white light of the moon had fallen upon the world like the mystery and the softness of sleep.
8 The open sympathy of the listeners stirred the spirit of the votary of music, whose voice regained its richness and volume, without losing that touching softness which proved its secret charm.
9 Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach.
10 In childhood, he was remarkable for an extreme and marked sensitiveness of character, more akin to the softness of woman than the ordinary hardness of his own sex.
11 Time, however, overgrew this softness with the rough bark of manhood, and but few knew how living and fresh it still lay at the core.
12 The deep fervor of Tom's feelings, the softness of his voice, his tears, fell like dew on the wild, unsettled spirit of the poor woman.
13 The black velvet of her locket nestled with special softness round her neck.
14 About all her figure, and especially her head, there was a certain expression of energy, and, at the same time, of softness.
15 The sky had grown blue and bright; and with the same softness, but with the same remoteness, it met his questioning gaze.