Citations:softened


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I read and reread her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.
 * And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived."


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * When this strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own hands, without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley.