"Soft on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lay soft on the landscape, but in a short time it went off, and Father, learning that we girls were going to spend a part of the day in the woods, quietly told the boys that they must escort us to the pleasantest place, and not ...
— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various
... her way to gather the fairest among them, That the dying once more might rejoice in their fragrance and beauty. Then, as she mounted the stairs to the corridors, cooled by the east-wind, Distant and soft on her ear fell the chimes from the belfry of Christ Church, While, intermingled with these, across the meadows were wafted Sounds of psalms, that were sung by the Swedes in their church at Wicaco. Soft as descending ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... Soft on the dew-fall damp Scarce sounds the measured tramp Of bronze-mailed sentinels, Dark on the darkened fells ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas
... kid Johnny Bennett is!" Maurice told Eleanor. He was detailing to her, while he was scrubbing the stickiness of the kitchen festivities off his hands, what had happened downstairs. "But do you know, I believe he's soft on ...
— The Vehement Flame • Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
... group, all clustered together near the silenced beehives, the two younger seated on the grass strip that bordered the flower-beds, their arms over each other's shoulders, the elder one standing behind them, with the moonlight shining soft on ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... clinging vine About the wedded tree, Clasp thou thine arms, ah, mistress mine! About the heart of me. Or seem to sleep, and stoop your face Soft on my sleeping eyes, Breathe in your life, your heart, your grace, Through me, in kissing wise. Bow down, bow down your face, I pray, To me, that swoon to death, Breathe back the life you kissed away, Breathe back your kissing breath. So by your eyes I swear and say, My mighty oath and sure, ...
— Grass of Parnassus • Andrew Lang
... 'tis mine Sharp on the road or soft on grass: Silence divides along my line And shuts behind me ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various
... Soft on the sunset sky Bright daylight closes, Leaving, when light doth die, Pale hues that mingling lie— Ashes ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various
... the pipes of Pan Somewhere, just beyond,— Over the edge of dawn, I think, Where the clouds hang soft on the world's dim brink, Where the red suns rise and the blue stars sink, I heard ...
— Fires of Driftwood • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... what celestial notes, What melody, we hear! Soft on the morn it floats, And fills the ravished ear. The tuneful shell, The golden lyre, And vocal choir, The ...
— Hymns for Christian Devotion - Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination • J.G. Adams
... drugstore. They don't load you down on payday in any of them places; but that didn't worry me. I was sizing up the good things, and I'd about decided on the front row of a musical comedy for mine, when what did I have to go and do but get soft on Tim here!" ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford |
