Harriet's words were full of asperity.    From LearnThat.org. 

The asperity of northern winters.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

She'd been through the spellin'-book wunst, and had got as fur as 'asperity' on it a second time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana] Reference

Arethusa said this with a bit of her old asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

The question was reiterated with a touch of asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

"Don't be silly," the Queen said, with some asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Like a Light] Reference

"Doing!" my wife replied, with some asperity her tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference

"I've told you so," the Queen said with some asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Like a Light] Reference

"Doubt?" repeated Miss Woodhull with no little asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dixie School Girl] Reference

"Certainly not," replied the colonel with some asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

"Why shouldn't she be?" she demanded with delicate asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

"What if there was?" demanded Mr. Massey with sudden asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

"We have yet to see that!" replied Debray, with some asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

As the campaign grew older, the canvass proceeded with asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

"Oh, no!" returned the victim of the accident, with some asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

"No; did you expect elevators?" his friend asked with some asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference

Some of the wines are cloudy, sweetish, with a good deal of asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

Something in the applicant's aspect mitigated the engineer's asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

"Dr. King!" exclaimed Miss Turner, with a touch of her former asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference

"Heaven had nothing to do with it," said he, with unnecessary asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

"Temper your language, Maillot," said the other, with a touch of asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

"It's Mr. Felderson that's wanted," Annie said with just a touch of asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [32 Caliber] Reference

"I make out that some folks are mighty big fools," retorted Judith with asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

"What under the sun is the matter with you, chum?" exclaimed Mark, with some asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference

The doctor's silence and a touch of asperity in his manner conveyed a definite reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

"I don't want to hear what struck you," retorted Mr. Wintermuth, with unwonted asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

In no line of them does he speak with asperity of any man; scarcely ever even of a thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

He stuck to his case, and cross-examined Mercy Vint with severity; indeed, with asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

"I don't want to feed so many people in Sweden with my taxes," he said with some asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe: Who Hails Sweden] Reference

"Why," said 'Rill Drugg's mother, lowering her voice a little and moderating her asperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

And in all that time no words of unkindness, no words of asperity, have passed between us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

'Sir,' I replied with some asperity, 'it is not a matter which concerns me at all, but you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

"No, thank you, John," -- with a touch of asperity from Molly, -- "I don't care for walnuts.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

"Grace Harlowe," demanded Elfreda with asperity, "have you suddenly taken leave of your senses?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference

He was ennobled by gentleness, and softened the asperity of the soldier by the ease of his manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

They had given him reciprocal greetings but they had been begrudging utterances of asperity and dismissal.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

"Why shouldn't it be," Doretta retorts with a touch of asperity, "when you open the window every few minutes?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference

"Well, you needn't be," responded Miss Standish, with an asperity born of impatience at her own lack of astuteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference

"Well," said Brenda, with some asperity, "boys aren't any better, if you should have to explain matters to a chum of yours.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Queensland Cousins] Reference