13 examples of mellower in sentences
But distance is a great mellower of colors and softener of fears.
Time, just as it improved the whisky, has improved his wife, and she has a mellower flavor.
As he looked at it, a mellower lustre, a soft and iridescent light, full of shifting gleams of azure and rose, trembled upon its surface.
The ninety-three windows of stained glass fill the interior with a soft and richly-tinted light, mellower and more gentle than the sombre twilight of the Gothic Cathedrals of Europe.
"You look mellower.
Now, possibly, the streets were going to be full of singing, and the housetops were going to rejoice with the mellower stars.
Was it to you, Mr. Walter Landor, whom Southey (in his strange affection for the name of Wat) had honoured with so much kindnessto you whose "matin chirpings" he had so generously encouraged, (as he did John Jones's "mellower song,")was it to you that Wordsworth delivered so injurious a judgment on the works of your patron?
My matin chirpings into mellower song.
It was a world with a different quality, a warmer, more penetrating and mellower light, with a faint clear gladness in its air, and wisps of sun-touched cloud in the blueness of its sky.
" "Glad am I," said Dessauer, courteously, as if he had been turning a phrase on the terrace at Plassenburg"glad am I that in your hour you are to be mindful of old friends, for they are like old wine, which grows better and mellower with the years.
Five years had passed over the old house and the old man lightly (both had been made to last, and were well taken care of), and gave to them only a mellower and riper look.
[U] But from this awful burthen I full soon Take refuge and beguile myself with trust 235 That mellower years will bring a riper mind And clearer insight.
She had in fancy made voyages in it to foreign lands, had heard the accents of a softer tongue on its decks, and on summer nights, from the roof of the quarter-deck, had seen mellower constellations take the place of the hard metallic glitter of the Californian skies.