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A number of European countries have decriminalised possession of cannabis or have softened laws in the area.
Fruits, fresh vegetables, and cabbages relieve the costiveness and effect softened motions in the morning.
Retail sales in Australia have softened off a bit, and that was evident in the most recent figures released for July today.
He also looked exceedingly miserable, an expression which softened only in the slightest at the sight of the coffee.
Harriette's expression of resolve softened, and she reached out and cupped Marguerite's chin in a motherly fashion.
Leave them for 10 minutes until they have softened, then drain and flake the fish.
Her expression immediately softened at the sight of me but turned hard once more after spotting the Old English sheepdog.
He realizes that his leave has softened him, and that he is about to fall apart.
Warm over a low heat for four to five minutes, until the dates are softened.
Sometimes he could be tough on people, but after they softened, he negotiated reasonable compromises.
This altruism softened the character enough to make him watchable, but he remained someone you would never wish to meet.
He has softened him up and now he moves to place his Knight on a better square.
Only his tears, his breakdown, had softened his mother, who had spoken to his father.
Hard water can be softened with the addition of a handful of washing soda to the wash and rinse cycles.
Observations have shown increased copper levels in water softened with ion exchange water softeners.
Some consumers are concerned that drinking softened water will increase the level of sodium in their diet.
Then, in a second, the old woman's face had softened back into its regular form.
He has a girlfriend over there, laps up every moment of the warm weather and has even softened his accent with the hint of a southern drawl.
Cook over a gentle heat until the vegetables have softened but not browned.
It is easily softened by solvents and grease, so wipe up spills promptly and do not use solvents or solvent-based polishes on it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
By this means the straw is softened and reduced in bulk, so that a larger quantity can be added before the digester is quite full.
Then, abruptly, the blue eyes were softened in their fires, as by the sudden nearness of tears.
The pelican nests are slight depressions in the sand, some of them softened with an algoid matting.
But arete pleaded hard with her husband for Medeia, for her heart was softened.
He has softened Mrs. banger by a proposal of marriage in which he appears to be perfectly in earnest.
In a stew, on the contrary, you boil down this soup till it permeates the fibre which long exposure to heat has softened.
At a red heat the litharge and borate of lead are fused, and cause the adhesion of the platinum to the softened glass.
In those few months my mind had matured and the brusqueness of my will was softened.
Such waters are softened on a commercial scale by the addition of the proper quantities of calcium hydroxide and sodium carbonate.
The queens, stately and ceremonious, were softened and could not restrain their laughter.
They were softened only by shots of brown, which ran like chain lightning through them.
Henry softened the rigour of his collaborator's pen in something like half an hour.
This window is iron grated, and its grim visage is softened by a flowering plant set within.
The characters of the Innamorato reappear with slight but subtle changes and with somewhat softened names in the furioso.
Some of this garniture had been removed, others softened into cheeriness and comfort.
Hard wear and weather had softened his gray hat into a disreputable slouch affair.
She was looking into the fire and the haggardness of her face had softened.
The hawklike appearance of the man was softened in debate by the urbanity of his manner and the modulations of his voice.
His shrift of the morning, hurried and formal as it had been, had softened him.
She had come so near death, and that so suddenly, that she was sobered and softened.
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