soreness

Example Sentences

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The fact is, these sorenesses are due to a strange, new religion to which I and my subjects have but recently become converted.

From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

I believe there are no sorenesses of the sort we are considering which time or change will not heal.

From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Titcomb, Timothy

The doctor is a confidant in more matters than one, and the right man will often smooth down little frictions and mollify sorenesses which bid fair to cause widespread conflagrations.

From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)

Sometimes in these affairs young people misunderstand each other, and little sorenesses arise, which a few outspoken words can smooth away.

From The Heart of Una Sackville by Tarrant, Peter

Besides, all this is an affair between two amateurs, and every body makes allowances for little asperities and sorenesses in such a case.

From Miscellaneous Essays by De Quincey, Thomas