"Asperate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confidence, or expect services, which a less conciliating deportment would not have been suggested. A Frenchman may be an unkind husband, a severe parent, or an arrogant master, yet never contract his features, or asperate his voice, and for this reason is, in the national sense, "un homme bien doux." His heart may become corrupt, his principles immoral, and his disposition ferocious—yet he shall still retain his equability ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady |
