Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. harsk,; akin to G. harsch, Dan. harsk, rancid, Sw. härsk,; from the same source as E. hard,. See Hard (a.)
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
M. E. harsk, a northern word; cf. Sw. härsk and Dan. harsk, rancid, Ger. harsch, hard.
In literature:
And does my experience contradict this harsh but common fame?
"Henrietta Temple A Love Story" by Benjamin Disraeli
You must not mingle in the world's harsh and jarring tumult.
"Essays on Scandinavian Literature" by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
The next moment the bosom of Densuke's dress was harshly grasped, and he himself was forced down on the floor.
"The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari" by James S. De Benneville
Harsh his lordship's tone, harsh his words.
"Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House)" by James S. De Benneville
Pinks, the member for Harsh?
"The Tragic Muse" by Henry James
It is necessary that nations learn by harsh experience the enormous disadvantage of despoiling each other.
"Sophisms of the Protectionists" by Frederic Bastiat
A repressed nature of this type will, in seeking such a compensation, escape from the harsh reality into the realm of dreams.
"The Necessity of Atheism" by Dr. D.M. Brooks
He could even stand the harsh lines and lights of evening clothes.
"The Coast of Chance" by Esther Chamberlain
True, I had been treated with harshness, but I had no right to rebel as I had done.
"Ernest Linwood" by Caroline Lee Hentz
The sun was a harsh ball of heat baking the ground and then, in some odd manner, drawing back that same fieriness.
"Storm Over Warlock" by Andre Norton
***
In poetry:
And if O'Hanlon's daughter
Will give me a welcome kind,
O never will my sail be turned
To a harsh and a heavy wind!
"Girls Spinning" by Padraic Colum
Peace!
Cease!
Such thoughts as these
Send all their harshness hissing through my song
And do my voice irreparable wrong.
"Before Sunrise" by Maurice Thompson
Poor Joe! I know he cannot sing--
His voice is somewhat harsh:
But he can whistle loud and clear
As plover in the marsh.
"Poor Joe" by Sarah Anne Curzon
Like the clangour of a bell,
Sweet and harsh, harsh and sweet.
That is how he learnt so well
To take the roses for his meat.
"Another Song Of A Fool" by William Butler Yeats
Where sorrow would never reach her
Nor harsh words smite her ear;
Nor her eyes in death dimmed slumber
Would ever shed a tear.
"A Little Child Shall Lead Them" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Up the harsh rock so steep and slim'd,
The mourner had to roam,
And faint on tott'ring feet she clim'd
To seek her lover's home.
"The Lass Of Fair Wone" by Charlotte Dacre
In news:
Noise, Vibration & Harshness : Off-Road, Through The Canyons Of My Land Roving Mind Photo Gallery.
Noise, Vibration & Harshness : Something Is Rotten In The State Of Tennessee.
Noise, Vibration & Harshness : It Ain't Broken, It's Fixed Photo Gallery.
Polymers, Elastomers and Two-Component Foams Seal, Reduce Noise Vibration and Harshness , Reduce Vehicle Weight, and Provide Easy Application.
In recent days, one or two (thousand) of you have suggested I might have been a bit harsh in my assessment of the Chicago Bears' performance in Sunday's 19-14 victory over the Detroit Lions.
Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday he won't play " hide and seek " with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness.
Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday he won't play "hide and seek" with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness.
With the Aussie rocker dishing out and then clarifying his harsh words for the show's cover of "Somebody That I Used to Know," the series' exec.
Harsh West Bank ' honor killing ' brings tougher law.
The new mapping application on Apple's recently-released iOS 6 has fallen under harsh criticism for, to put it simply, being a really bad app.
Nomads' land: Hospitable shepherds welcome visitors to Mongolia's harsh steppes.
North Country residents are certainly no strangers to harsh, dangerous, unpredictable weather.
Once again the country is considering harsh punishments for something that shouldn't be considered a crime at all.
There were reasons to be skeptical: not just the harshness of his interrogation, but because the Pakistanis had convicted several men, including Shaikh, for the murder, none of whom implicated KSM.
The message implicitly fit in with Romney's harsh rhetoric on Iran.
***
In science:
Finally, if the CCDs contain a significant density of traps even before they are launched into the harsh radiation environment of space, the CTI will be worse throughout, and the useful mission lifetime reduced.
The effects of charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) on galaxy shape measurements
Full functionality of such detectors over the lifetime of an experiment in a harsh radiation environment is of prime concern to the involved experimenters.
Summary and Outlook of the International Workshop on Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors (DESY, Hamburg, October, 2001)
In addition, strong dependences of the aging properties on high voltage and progressive deterioration of the gas gain in the direction of the serial gas flow have been observed for large-scale prototypes irradiated with Ar/C F4 /CH4 (67:30:3) in the harsh HERA-B environment.
Summary and Outlook of the International Workshop on Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors (DESY, Hamburg, October, 2001)
However, beginning in the 1930s, it became clear that “harsh” cutoff functions like χ[ε,x+ε] are no more useful from a technical point of view than the type of test functions we allow in (1.12).
Automorphic Distributions, L-functions, and Voronoi Summation for GL(3)
Given that most low-mass stars are born in OB associations (McKee & Williams 1997), it is important to study disk evolution in such harsh environments.
The Masses of the Orion Proplyds from Submillimeter Dust Emission
***