I see you are longing to put your fingers on the kid: but if you do, I've a bone-softener, which, by the blessed Prophet, shall break every bone in your three skins."
"The Pacha of Many Tales"
Captain Frederick Marryat
Death is a great softener of errors; and the village people, who could not remember a time when they had not disliked John Richards, forgot his faults now that he was dead.
"Bad Hugh"
Mary Jane Holmes
"We have known each other since we were children," Honor put in as a softener.
"Banked Fires"
E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi