Like an Alaskan winter

Usage examples of harsh.

Inhaling a ragged, brutal breath, using every ounce of will bred into him by the harsh, Absarokee tradition, Hazard crushed down the overwhelming emotions driving him to take this woman and very deliberately pulled her arms from around his neck and stepped away from her.

It was a hot still day in late summer and this was one of the softer corners of the Dales, sheltered by the enclosing fells from the harsh winds which shrivelled all but the heather and the tough moorland gmss.

It is said that a sparrow pursued by a hawk took refuge in the bosom of a member of the sovereign assembly of Athens, and that the harsh Areopagite threw the trembling bird from him with such violence that it was killed on the spot.

The harsh loneliness that had taken root within her warmed and withered to ashes, leaving nothing but willing need, calling in silent, multitoned voices from within her wyrm blood.

In an eerie echo of the Avestic traditions, a land which had previously enjoyed seven months of summer was converted almost overnight into a land of ice and snow with ten months of harsh and frozen winter.

The throb rose sharply into a harsh, reverberating yowl, then lapsed into an almost rocklike three-quarter-time backbeat behind a moody chord sequence in B-flat.

At dawn she woke to hear birds calling, and it seemed, mixed with their note, she could hear the harsh screams of the kyorebni, still feeding on the waste of the battlefield.

New York or Paris or Denver imagining the light in Boca Grande, how flat it is, how harsh and still.

Alasdair paced back and forth before the hearth, the sound of his bootheels harsh on the marble floor.

The broncs and bulls had learned to do their work without any harsh measures.

She touched things like gossamer burrs, harsh and poisonous but without substance.

In it were three big men whose harsh, deadly, north-of-the-Equator faces contrasted sadly with the mild Capricornian night.

If this sounds harsh, understand too what I learned at Cereus House: Blessed Elua loved me nonetheless for it.

The chimes grew faster, harsher, they clamored in a single note that throbbed, a heartbeat of brass.

The literature of the Cocceian controversy abounds in as violent and harsh expressions as have disgraced theological history at any time.