set one's teeth on edge

Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.

Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.