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Down the street the Isaiah Owens Funeral Services, home of “the most artful undertaker in Harlem,” bills itself as “Where Beauty Softens Your Grief.”

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2012

Syria Softens There was better news on another front in the Middle East: Damascus and Jerusalem may resume peace talks as early as January.

From Time Magazine Archive

At prices like those being charged by ophthalmologists in Portland�$325 to $400 a pair, or about twice the cost of some hard lenses�big demand for Softens may prove to be an optical illusion.

From Time Magazine Archive

"An understanding in the liberal arts Softens men's manners."

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Swift, Jonathan

The precipice abrupt, Projecting horror on the blacken'd flood, Softens at thy return.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various