asperous

A month ago Dorothy would have shuddered to find herself on an equality with such a person; but asperous is the astral road, and she had to make the best of Miss Onslow by treating her with at least as much cordiality as she would have shown to a small dressmaker from whom she wanted a dress by the end of the week.

No effort of the Government and its supporters could stem the mighty, endless avalanche of abuse that slid off the asperous tongues of its enemies.

This course continuous dooming to distress, These wandering steps that strayed o'er every road So wrought, they quencht for me the flamy thirst I suffered grow in Sprite, in Soul I nurst With Thoughts enamoured for my daily food, Whereby was fed my Nature's tenderness: And this by habit's long and asperous stress, Which might of mortals never mote resist, Was turned to pleasure-taste of being triste.

Consider whereabout thou art in Cebes’ table, or that old p. 29philosophical pinax of the life of man: whether thou art yet in the road of uncertainties; whether thou hast yet entered the narrow gate, got up the hill and asperous way which leadeth unto the house of sanity; or taken that purifying potion from the hand of sincere erudition, which may send thee clear and pure away unto a virtuous and happy life.’ 

A second past she had filled with spring this office damp with autumn; now she made it more asperous and grey than had November, for her season had changed to the extremest winter.