"Sweeten" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to higher aims," said he, "I'll further Truth and Purity; Thereby to mend the mortal lot And sweeten sorrow. ...
— Wessex Poems and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy
... within it as a core the revived love of his youth for Cynthia, her mother. Tender as were the manifestations of this love, Cynthia never guessed the fires within, for there was in truth something primeval in the fierceness of his passion. She was his now—his alone, to cherish and sweeten the declining years of his life, and when by a chance Jethro looked upon her and thought of the suitor who was to come in the fulness of her years, he burned with a hatred which it is given few men to feel. It was well for Jethro that these ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... out of any respectable, well-bred spelling-book. Vanity, frivolity, dishonesty, meanness, hypocrisy, and vulgarity can be exhibited in all the affairs of life, not excepting those whose proper office is to sweeten and to beautify it; but it does not need all your logical faculty to discover that there is not, therefore, any connection between a pretty bonnet, or an elegantly furnished house, and the disposition to snub and sneer at those who are without them,—between ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... they never perish, How, in time of later art, Memories consecrate and sweeten Those defaced and tempest-beaten Flowers of former years we cherish Half a life, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... having sugar to sweeten everything with, instead of honey, which you, for want of the other, were obliged to make use of, ...
— Dialogues of the Dead • Lord Lyttelton
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