Meanings of sudden harshness in English

The room jumped into view, and she blinked against the sudden harshness, tense, her body ready to spring.

This sudden harshness in the language of Harry Morgan told her that too much was known, or guessed.

If you are trifling with me I will never forgive you, she added, in sudden harshness, her brow darkening.

I tole yer to bring a candle, he said with sudden harshness to a girl who was lolling against the table.

He noticed that now and then the muscles of her face would contract with sudden harshness and she would grow deathly pale.

'Calm yourself!' she snapped, and the sudden harshness in her voice quieted him.

"You hadn't ought to have arrived with a firearm," he said with sudden harshness.

"Hey, waiter, your bill," said Droom, with sudden harshness.

"It were better if you found me dead," he said, in sudden harshness, but it was toward himself, not her.

"Of course I was with him," Réchamp retorted, with a sudden harshness which made me aware that I had grown harsh myself.

"Brabazon plays the fool-orknave, rather"-witha sudden harshness in his voice-"borrowingmoney which he knows he can't repay, apparently-andit's my fault!