All this had tended to make Hawley and Gull lukewarm in their adherence to the cause.

Lord John had joined the Ministry on the condition that he should bring forward his measure of reform; from the first most of his colleagues were very lukewarm towards it, but Palmerston was definitely, though covertly, antagonistic, Mr. John Boileau to Lady Melgund FOREIGN OFFICE, December 19, 1853

I cannot say what the effect may be if the British Government and press are lukewarm on the subject.

" "But, my dear child, you would not cast doubt upon our plans,you have not become lukewarm to our cause so soon, my dear?" "No, no, General.

Southern ladies were decidedly more pronounced secessionists than were the sterner sex, and whenever they discovered that one of their chivalric brethren was a little lukewarm toward the cause of the South they sent him a hoop skirt, which indicated that the recipient was lacking in bravery.

The Eastern people were lukewarm about a war in which they had no direct interest; and the foolish frontiersmen, instead of backing up the administration, railed at it and persistently supported the party which desired so to limit the powers and energies of the National Government as to produce mere paralysis.

It was generally known that Pennsylvania and New Jersey were Democratic and lukewarm for the old Union, and that Ohio and the West would not resist if there were a successful beginning of a movement and a military invasion.

They will mix and make lukewarm of both.