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Garvey's features began to burn and glow. Then they seemed to coarsen and somehow slip confusedly together. He stared for a second it seemed only for a second into the visage of a ferocious and abominable animal; and then, as suddenly as it had come, the filthy shadow of the beast passed off, the mist melted out, and with a mighty effort over his nerves he forced himself to finish his sentence.
The women saw nothing, and learnt nothing, of the outer world; and, in their own world, they saw and learnt much that was ill. All the brutalities connected with getting a living on peasant terms tended to coarsen them the cruelties of men to one another, the horrors that had to be inflicted on animals, the miseries of disease suffered by ignorant human beings.
"This world's a queer world!" Both girls brought up in a poverty that denied them all those jolly sort of advantages young girls liked, and yet each sheltered by a mother's great love from the things in poverty that coarsen and hurt.
First went the patriarch, white about the muzzle, grizzled all over, tottering and feeble, but still of eminent distinction the black rat does not coarsen with age then, one by one, with fearless inconsequence, the younger ones; lastly, save two, his own contemporaries. The scratching seemed to get louder. The black rat glided, like a shadow, towards it. It sounded from the bottom of the door.
Yes, and he had had a woman's ways from first to last. Nothing that had happened had been able to coarsen him; he had never given way to loose talk or brutal jests, and in the presence of suffering had invariably been full of tenderness. Good heavens! pass on to the crisis to that day when he had come to the top of the shaft and called down to him!
"Why has he come to America?" "I have not inquired." "Why is he here with you?" "Because it pleases him, not me." "He brings you some message?" "So he says." "What is it?" "I have not had time to ask." She stood up. As she became more herself and the spirit rushed forward in her face, I saw how her beauty had ripened. Hoeing corn and washing in the river does not coarsen well-born women.
Slender and scarcely tall, she belonged to the order of spare, slight-made women, who hide within their slim frames an endowment of profound passion far exceeding that of their more voluptuously-formed sisters, who never coarsen into stoutness, and who at forty are as disturbing as at twenty. At this date Eva was twenty-six.
I bet there wasn't a day in all them years that Angus didn't believe himself to be a stubborn, domineering brute, riding roughshod over the poor little wreck of a woman. If he didn't it wasn't for want of his wife accusing him of it in so many words and perhaps a few more. "I guess she got to feeling so sure of herself she let her work coarsen up.
This Susan did at their next convention, and while there were enough women present to carry the resolution, most of them voted against it, listening instead to the emotional arguments of a group of conservative men who prophesied that coeducation would coarsen women and undermine marriage.
Abergenny, the colour of a milkmaid. But although the blood of the girl bred in a remote corner of England was warm and rich in her veins, and her skin was tanned, it would take more than colour to coarsen her features, and perhaps it was the straight nose of the Percys' which enabled her to step calmly along in the wake of her aunt whilst wishing that she might fly through one of the windows.
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