"Mildly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... commercial traveller," said Austin, very mildly. "You see, my dear Lubin, we have been talking of different things. I wasn't thinking of a gentleman who hawks haberdashery. When I said traveller, I meant a man who goes tramping across Africa, and shoots elephants, and gets snowed up at the ...
— Austin and His Friends • Frederic H. Balfour
... been appointed to collect the money, and to strike coin, it appeared some small consolation to the cities of Asia for the harshness of Sulla that Lucullus not only behaved with honesty and justice, but conducted himself mildly in the discharge of so oppressive and disagreeable a duty. Though the Mitylenaeans had openly revolted, Lucullus wished them to come to their senses, and to submit to some reasonable penalty for their ill-conduct in the matter of Marius;[334] but perceiving that they were under ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long
... sudden changes here, certainly," Jasper mildly answered; "though we think ourselves liable to unexpected shifts of wind. I hope, however, to carry this land-breeze as far as the first islands; after which there will be less danger of our being seen and followed by any of the look-out boats ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... commonplace, and I related various experiences in a desultory fashion. Those that were mildly amusing were most appreciated. But gradually we drifted towards more vital issues and then the long and futile argument began. The weapons of sarcasm and denunciation were denied to me by the laws of politeness ...
— Combed Out • Fritz August Voigt
... not talk of such things in this manner," said Jacqueline, mildly. But the dignity of her rebuke was ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various
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