The season was unusually mild; the hunting was scarcely ever interrupted, and Marie Antoinette, who now made it a rule to accompany her husband on every possible occasion, sometimes did not return from the hunt till the night was far advanced, and found her health much benefited by the habit of spending the greater part of even a winter's day in the open air.

At this the maiden regarded Percival very strangely, and she beheld that he was comely beyond any man whom she had ever seen and that his countenance was very noble and exalted and yet exceedingly mild and gentle.

The wind was indeed "just right;" but even Dab forgot, for the moment, that "The Swallow" would go faster and farther before a gale than she was likely to with the comparatively mild southerly breeze now blowing.

In this interesting discussion he seems to have adopted a bullying tone somewhat incompatible with his remarkably mild Christian name, Jacques Bénigne, and to have forgotten the courtesy due to a lady who, whatever her errors might be in his eyes, was one of the brightest lights and purest saints in the Roman Catholic Church of that day.

But the sky remained wonderfully clear, a brilliant sun shone in the limpid blue; and at La Souleiade, the windows of the study facing south formed a sort of hothouse, preserving there a delightfully mild temperature.

She is a little woman, of a genteel appearance, and uncommonly mild and well-bred.

The Birds dismist (while you remain) Bore back their empty Carr again: Then You, with Looks divinely mild,

my darling son! wert thou but here, My bosom should receive thy lovely form: Thou'dst soothe my gloomy hours with converse dear: Serenely mild behold the lowering storm.

Dunlop cheese has a peculiarly mild and rich taste: the best is made entirely from new milk.

By themselves they got on rapidly with work on the roof, very much helped by three days' unexpectedly mild weather.

Till I espy'd thee, fair indeed and tall, Under a Platan, yet methought less fair, Less winning soft, less amiably mild, Than that smooth watry Image: back I turn'd, Thou following crydst aloud, Return fair Eve, Whom flyst thou?

"The treatment of the slaves during the discussions in England, was manifestly milder than before."Dr.

Then, when dark arts obscur'd each fierce debate, When mutual frauds perplex'd the maze of state, The moderator firmly mild appear'd Beheld with lovewith veneration heard.

Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, "I would prefer not to.

Chatterton Rose pale, his solemn agony had not Yet faded from him; Sidney, as he fought 5 And as he fell and as he lived and loved Sublimely mild, a spirit without spot, Arose; and Lucan, by his death approved; Oblivion as they rose shrank like a thing reproved. 46.

As there were plenty of tools on board, however, by using stuff of one sort or another, that was to be found in the ship, Mark had strong hopes of their being able, between them, to construct, in the course of timethough he believed a long time might be necessarya craft of some sort, that should be of sufficient stability to withstand the billows of that ordinarily mild sea, and enable them to return to their homes and friends.

We found two colossal figures of lions, which are so painfully mild that each of them is rolling a great ball about like a kitten.

Do thou with heart fervent and proudly mild Make war upon those fraud-engendering schools!

The slave laws were relatively mild, the police administration extremely casual, and the plantation managements easy-going.

Simply because most of his adventures with Walker were not of the strictly mild character becoming a family-man.

I askit seems a tolerably mild requestthat they do not see each other for six months.

It was wonderfully mild considering the temperaturethis sounds paradoxical, but the sensation of cold does not conform to the thermometerit is obviously dependent on the wind and less obviously on the humidity of the air and the ice crystals floating in it.

In sympathy the prairie breeze, torn of the sun, was becoming appreciably milder.

The leaves are considerably milder, and may be used to the quantity of three, four, or five grains.

As March advanced towards me, there was methought in his Look a louring Roughness, which ill befitted a Month which was ranked in so soft a Season; but as he came forwards his Features became insensibly more mild and gentle: He smooth'd his Brow, and looked with so sweet a Countenance that I could not but lament his Departure, though he made way for April.