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1. The hot days and chilly nights had put some stress on the boot’s leather skin, but it was mainly due to the pervasive asperity of this place, this outer desert, and the abrasive nature of the rocky ground; the mix of dust, sand, dirt and gravel that had made his boots little less than sheets of leather about to slit themselves open
2. Davis, unprimming her mouth slightly to say it, but speaking with asperity
3. 'Than what she had before, of course,' she said with some asperity
4. Happy thou, above all the squires in the world! Bear in mind, and let it not escape thy memory, how she receives thee; if she changes colour while thou art giving her my message; if she is agitated and disturbed at hearing my name; if she cannot rest upon her cushion, shouldst thou haply find her seated in the sumptuous state chamber proper to her rank; and should she be standing, observe if she poises herself now on one foot, now on the other; if she repeats two or three times the reply she gives thee; if she passes from gentleness to austerity, from asperity to tenderness; if she raises her hand to smooth her hair though it be not disarranged
5. "How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons
6. He says this, a censor of morals, a very pelican in his piety, who did not scruple, oblivious of the ties of nature, to attempt illicit intercourse with a female domestic drawn from the lowest strata of society! Nay, had the hussy's scouringbrush not been her tutelary angel, it had gone with her as hard as with Hagar, the Egyptian! In the question of the grazing lands his peevish asperity is notorious and in Mr Cuffe's hearing brought upon him from an indignant rancher a scathing retort couched in terms as straightforward as they were bucolic
7. Needless to say the fumes of his recent orgy spoke then with some asperity in a curious bitter way foreign to his sober state
8. “Hold thy tongue, naughty child!” answered her mother, with an asperity that she had never permitted to herself before
9. “Forgive me, but I am in charge of the nunnery,” Cecilia said with asperity
10. “But we are nuns, after all,” Caris said with asperity
11. “My Lord, will you please keep your head down!” Lieutenant Slokym snapped with rather more asperity than a mere lieutenant was supposed to use in addressing a general officer
12. "I shall want a horse presently," he said with some asperity to the old man
13. she asked, with a touch of asperity in her voice
14. Holmes, with some asperity
15. , the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy
16. “One takes that more or less for granted,” Mondragón said with some asperity, “given where we found him
17. ’ I spoke of her asperity of character, and I added that I had done nothing, and that I would not take the first step
18. Both have treated this alleged omission with no little asperity
19. I know not whether, on this account, I am justly obnoxious to the asperity of my honorable colleague
20. The debate has been continued for such a length of time, and in part has been conducted with so much asperity, that the minds of all have become fatigued, and the passions of many inflamed