Less harsh

Usage examples of softer.

With one hand he cradled the back of her head, letting his fingers thread through her hair, softer than any silk.

He told her she was more beautiful than the first flowers of spring, that her voice was softer than a velvet caress, that her eyes were bluer than the finest sapphires.

Nothing was to be seen of them save the sleeves, which were of a delicate substance, resembling that of the finest Parisian kid gloves, but far softer and finer.

As we were watching them, Eveena, wrapped in a cloak of fur not a little resembling that of the silver fox, but far softer, stole her hand into mine and whispered a request that I would lend her the instrument I was using.

Have the women of your Earth hearts so much harder and skins so much softer than ours?

It was easier a little softer, less hard to swallow past a certain point.

His skin was soft, even the beard stubble was softer than it looked, so black against this white skin.

Its colour was peculiar, more like that of the red man than any other variety of our species, and yet different from it--a richer and a softer hue, with large black eyes, deep and brilliant, and brows arched as a semicircle.

From it they extract the light which supplies their lamps, finding it steadier, softer, and healthier than the other inflammable materials they had formerly used.

But the reproach of cruelty, so repugnant even to her softer vices, has left an indelible stain on the memory of Theodora.

But the firmest defence of Petra was placed in the valor of fifteen hundred Persians, who resisted the assaults of the Romans, whilst, in a softer vein of earth, a mine was secretly perforated.

India ten quintals of the wood of aloes, a maid seven cubits in height, and a carpet softer than silk, the skin, as it was reported, of an extraordinary serpent.

Among the colors, he celebrates, with affectation of eloquence, the fiery blaze of the scarlet, and the softer lustre of the green.

By his arms, the Gasnevides were expelled from the eastern kingdoms of Persia, and gradually driven to the banks of the Indus, in search of a softer and more wealthy conquest.

Keeping that in mind, he did his best to avoid the softer, deeper piles of sand.