"There is one condition," said he, "upon which you may obtain some mitigation of your future calamity.

Had it been in self-defenseeven in the heat of uncontrollable angershe could have found mitigation for Jack; but there was neither the justification of self-defense nor the plausible pretext of anger.

On Thursday, when she left him to try to gain a respite till Monday, he said he wished she would cease from seeking his preservation, but he did not forbid her trying, thinking that these efforts, though unavailing, might bring some mitigation of her sorrows.

" "And consequently one that carries its own mitigation.

I do not think Morris, however, could have belonged to this tribe, though perhaps Othello did, which would at once settle the difficulties of those commentators who, abiding by Iago's very disagreeable suggestions as to his purely African appearance, are painfully compelled to forego the mitigation of supposing him a Moor and not a negro.

Scarcely daring to hope for leniency, and filled with a dreadful foreboding of what would ensue, the grocer addressed a long and fervent supplication to Heaven, imploring a mitigation of its wrath.

Whatever mitigation such a conception may offer, surely we may be excused for still adhering to that simpler explanation which involves a mystery indeed, but nothing so positively unthinkable as a process without a beginning.

In September, 1826, although an invalid at the time, he made a journey to Mannheim for the sake of procuring a mitigation of the sentence of a condemned poacher, whose case appealed strongly to his sympathy.

THOUGHTS, &c. I know of no subject, where humanity and justice, as well as public and private interest, would be more intimately united than in that, which should recommend a mitigation of the slavery, with a view afterwards to the emancipation of the Negroes, wherever such may be held in bondage.

Such a plea might, indeed, secure a mitigation of sentence, but never a verdict of acquittal.

Like that of the Comtesse d'Auvergne, her attempt, however, proved abortive, save that Henry accorded to her prayers a mitigation of the rigour with which her husband had hitherto been treated.

Nor were the marked affection and confidence shown Kate by everybody in the house a mitigation of this malign fabric of humiliation.

No effort was spared during the interval which elapsed previous to the recorder presenting his report to the privy-counsela peculiar privilege at that time attached to the officeto procure a mitigation of the sentence.