524 examples of mildly in sentences

And then he mildly inquired if Verty would not like to take a ride.

Oh, what are you doing, Mrs Hale? MRS HALE: (mildly)

ADELAIDE: (as if the last word in absurdity has been said) I haven't energy? CLAIRE: (mildly) You haven't any energy at all, Adelaide.

"You are right," said he mildly, "I did; and a great satisfaction, you know, it was to my mind, for by this means I killed two birds with one stone;" meaning that he had both thumped the baker and murdered him.

: such is the material of which he builds his entertaining, wholesome, mildly thoughtful dramas.

" "I don't see how we could have been much more economical," said Mrs. Harding, mildly.

"It was improper for a stranger to speak to me on that subject," she said, mildly.

Rachel actually smiled, but mildly disclaimed the compliment.

"You said you wasn't good," mildly suggested Ida.

This one that will be lost through mine!" "Not through you," said Barnaby mildly.

Now, conscious of entertaining some common opinions which seemed to fall under the mildly intimated but sweeping ban of Lentulus, my self-complacency was a little concerned.

The basis of the monarchy is destroyed, for the magistrate is no longer a paternal ruler residing amongst and mildly swaying his children, but a marauder, who arrives no man knows whence, and who departs no one knows whither.

Lucius Cincius Alimentus, whose claim to knowledge if not to impartiality rests largely on the fact that he was captured and held prisoner by Hannibal, also left memoirs; but Hannibal was not famous for treating prisoners mildly, and the Romans, most cruel themselves in this respect, were always deeply scandalized by a much less degree of harshness on the part of their enemies.

Lamb, introduced by John Howard Payne, saw him in "Regulus," but not understanding French was but mildly interested.

The archers dragged him roughly up again, and he mildly answered, 'If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me?' Annas became still more enraged when he saw the calm demeanour of Jesus, and, turning to the witnesses, he desired them to bring forward their accusations.

" "Then perhaps you wouldn't mind doing my work for me, so that I can go?" said Mr. Swann, mildly.

"Well," she said mildly, and without the least surprise at his figures, "I don't know what he could have been thinking ofyour Priam Farll!

"Wasn't it rather unusual, to put it mildly, to leave your prisoners to their own devices that way?"

"Perhaps it was injudicious," he said mildly, "but the sum was so merely nominal that I bought tickets to the theater to-night.

or was it to be formed by the lady who so mildly conducted the affairs of Russia? or were they all to lay their heads together, and by the assistance of the Pope, dictate a form of government to France?

"Let's talk things over," he suggested mildly.

This was so obviously comic that they all laughedeven Mrs. Spraggand Undine went on more mildly: "I want to do something for Mabel Lipscomb: make some return.

" "Let us not talk of such things in this manner," said Jacqueline, mildly.

Her raven hair was parted smooth Upon her forehead high; And though her face was pale with care, Yet mildly beamed her eye.

We are not anxious to have the man hanged, or even indicted; but we did expect a magnanimous pardon to be extended to him by Mr. Linden; and although that gentleman was altogether too magnanimous before, we should have acquiesced mildly.

524 examples of  mildly  in sentences