Which preposition to use with indulgent
But if you can be comfortable and indulgent to a man, and especially if you can cultivate a real admiring confidence in him, he will unfold his very heart of hearts to you.
Pardon me, thou gentlest and most indulgent of Friends!
You are a little too indulgent in saying there is no downright vulgarity; for some there is; though surprisingly little for the circumstances.
Also how very considerate he is of Mrs. Coombe, how patient with Jane, how indulgent with you" "Indulgent with me!"
The just and the true remain; iniquity should be condemned without pity; but we are bound to be more indulgent towards men than, towards things.
So, it would seem, had the majority of the Jews till after the Captivity; and even then the law of divorce seems to have been as indulgent toward the man as it was unjust and cruel toward the woman.
Jason Pratensis puts this of education for a principal cause; bad parents, stepmothers, tutors, masters, teachers, too rigorous, too severe, too remiss or indulgent on the other side, are often fountains and furtherers of this disease.
Take a man who has had large opportunity of studying mankind, and has come into contact with every form of human weakness and corruption; such a man is indulgent as a simple consequence of his knowledge, because nothing surprises him.
" Some of her critics, including Mrs. Oliphant (far less indulgent than the poor curates who forgave her nobly), have grudged Charlotte her amusement.
How wonderful he looked (though not fat and self-indulgent like the pictures of the real Wolsey) in his flame-colored robes!
"Thank you, very much, my dear Colonel," says Virtue; "there never was surely such a kind, affectionate, unselfish creature as you are, and so indulgent for children, but my boys and yours are brought up on a very different plan.
Nevertheless, the poet, as he grew older, grew more and more attached to this symbol of a Deity, indulgent before all else, but very real and living, and in whom the poor and the suffering could put their trust.