Hester passed the door and looked in on him, as he lay apparently asleep, his long, bony frame stretched out and the muscles of his strong face relaxing to a softness they sometimes assumed when sleeping.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Lad,-you've brought me a softness,-it's like what a man feels for a woman.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Then he swung round abruptly, for he was shrewd, and had his primitive notions of delicacy; and Laura went on through the stillness of the Bush, with a curious softness in her eyes.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton