例文・使い方で印象づける「soften」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... He became at once very polite, and after trying to soften me for some time, but quite in vain, he cursed me once more in Gaelic and took himself off... 
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...Nothing could bend or soften him...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...It was a scene to gladden the saddest, and to soften the hardest, heart...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...For the purpose of mutual aid, they banded themselves together in society capacity, that they might be better able to administer to each others' sufferings and to soften their own pillows...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...Wilson, in rather a sharp tone; but the subdued look of the girl and the presence of Carlingham caused him to soften his language...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle」
... the firstheavy rain is likely to soften the mud walls...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...In two or three days, or from that to theend of the week, the bag may soften, lose its heat and tenderness, and subsideinto the healthy condition, even resuming the secretion of milk...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...This should be continued until the crusts soften and begin to drop off,then the parts may be cleansed thoroughly with warm water and soap...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
... his feeding upon berries and grains subduehis tints and soften his voice...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
... All that we now have to do is to soften the gum a little and then dab the thing at once on the Mason-bee's back, so that the broken needle runs parallel with the spine...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...What about a dissolving fluid which would soften the mortar under the point of the ovipositor? No, for I see not a trace of humidity around the point where the thread is at work...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...Theyremain just below the surface of the soil for a week or two beforeactually emerging; this final phase of emergence is probably hastenedby spring rains that soften the soil...
John M. Legler 「Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz」
...Perhaps I was mistaken, but in that swiftinstant the hard glare in his eyes seemed to soften with fear, as herecognized me as the one thing in the wilderness that dared to hunthim, the king...
William J Long 「Wilderness Ways」
...An officer confined to the Bastille, at Paris, begged to be allowed to play on his lute, to soften his confinement by its harmonies...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...Grace,however, was no attribute of his pencil; and he was more disposed toaggravate, than to soften the harsh touches of Nature...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
...They gathered fungus that grew in thready clumps on the walls, andthis served as a mattress to soften the rocky floor that must be theirbed...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
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