Harshly

Examples

• I am very sorry if any one has behaved harshly to you,' replied Rose. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Do not think very harshly of me, laddie. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I know that he has done no harm and that you will be sorry for having acted so harshly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• An instant later steps crept down the passage--steps which were meant to be silent, but which reverberated harshly through the empty house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A knell from the church bell broke harshly on these youthful thoughts. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Call them pro-Germans, international financiers, or profiteers, and they will give you any ransom you choose to ask not to speak of them so harshly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The atrocious name grated harshly on my ear, too. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The mere suspicion that the thought was in her mind made him feel harshly and impatiently toward her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Nay, she said harshly and lovingly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But their feet rang harshly in manifold sound, along the pavement. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That would sound too harshly yet. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The angel bade the pregnant Hagar return to her mistress Sarai, even though Sarai had dealt harshly with her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I was changed; the tight-drawn cord that sounded so harshly was loosened, the moment that Idris participated in my knowledge of our real situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Pitiable as such an attitude seemed to Gerty, she could not judge it as harshly as Selden, for instance, might have done. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• If I judged harshly of other people's mistakes in marriage, it may have been because I had bitter reason to judge harshly of my own. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She behaved to you rudely and harshly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If I were not afraid of judging harshly, I should be almost tempted to say that there is a strong appearance of duplicity in all this. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

Edited by Beverly