3259 examples of milder in sentences
"We have no capital punishment," says he; "for, from all we learn, it is not more efficacious in preventing crime, than other punishments which are milder; and we prefer making the example to offenders a lasting one.
Let's try some beer, A milder fluid for to-day; Ottawa bring usc'est à dire, Some beer that keeps the 'ot away.
This explanation will give an idea of the nature of Swift's milder satire.
Then melt, ye fair, while crowds around you sigh, Nor let disdain sit lowering in your eye; With pity soften every awful grace, And beauty smile auspicious in each face To ease their pain exert your milder power; So shall you guiltless reign, and all mankind adore.
wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there, To soften, not to wound, my heart: The generous spark extinct revive; Teach me to love and to forgive; Exact my own defects to scan; What others are to feel, and know myself a Man.
She hath a milder beam of praise, Her heart a soil where Truth may bloom, And while her drooping flowers we raise, They yield us back a rich perfume.
From gayer scenes, where pleasure's mad career Infects the milder avenues of thought, Where secret Envy swells the note of Fear, And Hope is in its own illusion caught.
The swallow now takes his departure for milder regions, and many other of the small billed birds that feed on insects disappear when the cold weather commences.
"Yet I excused her on account of her sickness, although this sickness would have taken another and milder character if she herself were other and milder.
Meanwhile Clodiusa sort of milder Catiline, not without many popular qualitieshad got himself elected tribune; degrading himself formally from his own order of nobles for that purpose, since the tribune must be a man of the commons.
Caesar now looked on coldly, not altogether sorry at the turn which affairs had taken, and faintly suggested that perhaps some "milder measure" might serve to meet the case.
The temper of administration, however, was not appreciably affected, for this clearly appears to have grown milder as the decades passed.
It was his wont to paste up long altar-pieces of Liana's charms, charms which her father had sought to enhance by means of delicate and almost meagre fare, by shutting up his orangery, whose window he seldom lifted off from this flower of a milder climeuntil she had become a tender creature of pastil-dust, which the gusts of fate and monsoons of climate could almost blow to pieces.
My Latin scholar was a lad who meant to profit by his opportunities and devoted himself to his studies, and, naturally, had a most cordial collaboration on my part, while the son of the rival citizen was both lazy and refractory, so that, with my system of inflicting no corporal punishments, he got none of the weekly prizes, and got such milder punishments as could be inflicted.
It has driven the defenders of the old faith into the milder and more genial climate of non-natural interpretations, and the historic sense, and a certain elastic relativity of dogma.
The domestic habits of the Middle Ages, armed for self-defence, and on guard against invasion from without, still find expression in the solid bulk of this forbidding dwelling-place, although its majesty and largeness show that the reign of milder and more courtly manners has begun.
The wind has seemed milder to-dayit blows anywhere from S.E. to south.
All college discipline, all college authorities, all university traditions had been despised by Shand, who even in his dress had departed as far from recognised customs and fashions among the men as from the requisitions of the statutes and the milder requirements of the dignitaries of the day.
The simple religious nature with its ventures into a milder spiritual country, puts on glory with far less danger and pain than the artist, and what a perfect surface is prepared within him for the arts to be painted upon!
As the milder ungeared his primitive machinery, he had thought of saving water in the flume-chamber.
He was a noble representative of Baltimore Methodism, but his health suffered from the bleak winds of the Lake, and at the close of his term he was compelled to seek a milder atmosphere.
Nor was there want of milder thoughts, of love Of innocence, and holiday repose; And more than pastoral quiet, 'mid the stir Of boldest projects, and a peaceful end 175 At last, or glorious, by endurance won.
240 And milder breezes,melancholy lot!
Later years Brought to such spectacle a milder sadness.
From that time forth, [A] Authority in France Put on a milder face; Terror had ceased, Yet every thing was wanting that might give Courage to them who looked for good by light Of rational Experience, for the shoots 5 And hopeful blossoms of a second spring: